Neches River Festival

Beaumont, TX · Festival

When: April 17, 2027
Where: Downtown Beaumont · Beaumont · TX
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Beaumont has celebrated spring on the Neches River since the late 1940s with a festival of concerts, a carnival, and a Grand Parade through downtown. It typically runs in April and has grown into one of Southeast Texas' largest annual gatherings. The festival is organized each year by a rotating slate of local civic volunteers.

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Neches River Festivalsame spot
Beaumont has celebrated spring on the Neches River since the late 1940s with a festival of concerts, a carnival, and a Grand Parade through downtown.
Spindletop gusher5.3 mi
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Nederland, the Dutch colony the railroad recruited11 mi
Stilwell's railroad was built largely on Dutch money, and in 1897 its land agents laid out a town on the line and recruited families from Holland to farm it and work it.
The TPC Group plant explodes and empties four towns12 mi
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The Motiva refinery, the largest in the United States17 mi
The Texas Company began building here in 1902 to process crude from the Spindletop field twenty miles north, and the plant came online in 1903.