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Visit Seguin, TeXaS
Get crackin’ and plan your visit to
Seguin, Texas. While the city of just
more than 30,000 people might be
best known for being home of the
world’s largest pecan, it has a lot
more to offer visitors. From its
founding in 1838 by 33 Texas
Rangers, Seguin’s legacy keeps
growing with new attractions and
the preserved historic downtown
district linking visitors to the days of
old.
Visitors today can shoot down the
lazy Guadalupe River on inner
tubes. Recreationists can also flock
to Max Starcke Park to kayak on
the four-mile Lake Seguin Paddling
Trail, take on the surf at the Max
Starke Park Wave Pool or sink a
knee-knocking three footer at the
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18-hole championship golf course
along the river beneath the pecan
trees.
Nothing is gentle about the ZDT
Amusement Park, an indoor-out-
door thrill ride extravaganza cover-
ing the gamut of adrenaline rushes.
Check out the custom-made
Switchback roller coaster. The
world’s first wooden shuttle roller
coaster,
Switchback,
snakes
through the historical buildings be-
fore reaching the Grand Spike, a
section of angled track at 87 de-
grees—a record!
Seguin’s downtown historic dis-
trict is listed on the National Reg-
ister of Historic Places and is filled
with significant buildings. See a
variety of building styles from
across several eras as well as
some unique shopping with a visit
to downtown.
The Pape Pecan House and Nut-
cracker Museum displays more
than 8,000 nutcrackers, the largest
collection in the world! Not surpris-
ingly, Seguin is also home to the
World’s Largest Pecan, well two of
them. The original sits on the
Courthouse lawn, Seguin built an
even larger pecan that can be
found at the Texas Agricultural Ed-
ucation and Heritage Center along
with the Pecan Museum.
Pick your weekend, and start plan-
ning your visit to Seguin. For more in-
formation, visit www.visitseguin.com.