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ITINERARY
4h 24m228 miles27 stops
1
Klm Crown Lounge Houston Iah Airport
2
Escape Artist Kingwood
Escape Artist Texas invites you to enter a world of your choosing. Be prepared for an exciting and challenging adventure of solving puzzles, cracking codes, and unraveling mysteries from within. Enjoy an escape from reality with 4-10 friends in 60 minutes while testing your wits. Book now to see if you have what it takes to become and Escape Artist or are you just another chump?!
3
Kingwood Library
4
Houston Police Stables
5
Stages Repertory Theatre
Founded in 1978, Stages Repertory Theatre is a not-for-profit professional theatre with two intimate performance spaces and deep roots in the Houston community. Stages produces year-round, performing a broad scope of new work, popular entertainment and re-imagined classics. Almost all of Stages shows are rehearsed and constructed on-site in Houston, brought to life by an exceptional community of locally-based artists and craftspeople along with occasional guest directors, actors and designers from around the world. With a mission to advance theatre and enliven community, Stages offers a greenhouse for new talent and ideas and a place for art, artists and audiences to thrive.
6
Houston Grand Opera
Opera house in Houston that features opera presentations throughout the year.
7
CSz Houston
8
Toyota Center
9
The Menil Collection
Houston philanthropists and art patrons John and Dominique de Menil established the Menil Foundation in 1954 to foster greater public understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, culture, religion, and philosophy. In 1987, the Menil Collection’s main museum building opened to the public. Today, the Menil Collection consists of a group of five art buildings and green spaces located within a residential neighborhood. The Menil remains committed to its founders’ belief that art is essential to human experience and fosters direct personal encounters with works of art. The museum welcomes all visitors free of charge to its buildings and surrounding green spaces.
10
Texas Art Asylum
11
Axelrad Beer Garden
Axelrad is all about celebrating Houston, being outside, and relaxing. Conceived as a community-gathering place offering beer, wine, drinks, Luigi's pizza, live music, and the city's only hammock grove, Axelrad aims to be a place for all. The bar's interior is housed within a 100-year-old renovated building, originally a grocery store built by David and Gertrude Axelrad. Artists added to the beautiful historic interior with tap handles by Venezuelan-based Maria Rangel, seating by New Living's HTX Made, and textiles by Austin-based Nido.
12
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national, and regional art. Through dynamic exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications and accessible educational programs, the Museum reaches out to local, regional, national, and international audiences of various ages. CAMH is always fresh, always free.
13
Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
14
British Isles
15
The Naturalist Cafe & Lounge
16
Smither Park
17
Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home Forest Park Lawndale
Forest Park Lawndale, one of Houston's landmarks, provides complete funeral and cemetery services, including assistance with memorial estate planning, pre-funding of final expenses and memorial design. Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home is located adjacent to the cemetery providing families who have suffered the loss of a loved one the ability to have all their immediate needs met in one convenient location. At Forest Park Lawndale, families are offered many different venues to memorialize the life and accomplishments of their loved ones. Rights of interment are offered in beautiful lawn interment space, as well as in mausoleum entombment within crypts situated in one of the cemetery's beautiful chapel or garden mausoleums. Lawn crypts in the Garden of Angels, Garden of Love, or the Garden of Peace are also available. For families selecting cremation, memorialization is beautifully achieved in the Rock Garden situated on the sloping banks of a tranquil lake or in elegant niche columbaria within the Abbey Mausoleum. Through the assistance of trained Dignity Memorial® service providers, meaningful tributes are designed according to the unique qualities of the life that is being remembered. Facilities for memorialization and funeral ceremonies are available in visitation and staterooms of varying size, two funeral home chapels, and the warm ambiance of The Chapel of Angels. At Forest Park Lawndale, each staff member is committed to a standard of excellence, ethics and honesty that guides them as they help families bring honor and recognition to the lives of their loved ones. As a Dignity Memorial provider, we offer exclusive benefits, including National Transferability of Prearranged Services, the Bereavement Travel Program, the 24-Hour Compassion Helpline® and access to an acclaimed grief management library. At Forest Park Lawndale each staff member has committed to a standard of excellence, ethics and honesty that guides them as they help families bring honor and recognition to the lives of their loved ones. We call it “The Dignity Promise.” The trust placed with Forest Park Lawndale by area families serves as a constant reminder of that commitment.
18
Reliant Park
19
Houston Botanic Garden
20
El Sido's Zydeco & Blues Club
This Lafayette club features a lot of zydeco, Creole boogeying music, guaranteed to get you up out of your seat and dancing.
21
Urns of Justice
22
Girard Park Center
23
Painting with a Twist
Painting with a Twist brings wine, art and fun together in a unique experience. Painting with a Twist has events every week, check out the calendar, or plan a private gathering for Birthdays, Team Building or Bridal Parties!
24
Cajundome & Convention Center
25
Lafayette Science Museum
Step into the vibrant world of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Science Museum, where curiosity knows no bounds!
26
Vermilionville
Get a taste of life for the 18th-century Acadian settlers in this 23-acre village with meticulously recreated period homes, costumed staff demonstrating arts and crafts and a restaurant serving Cajun and Creole food.
27
Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge and Monument
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OVERVIEW
The Woodlands to Lafayette
1
Start:Klm Crown Lounge Houston Iah Airport
Houston, Texas·
2.0
(6) review
2800 N Terminal Rd Terminal D, Houston, TX 77032-5569
2
Start:Escape Artist Kingwood
Houston, Texas·
5.0
(84) review
Escape Artist Texas invites you to enter a world of your choosing. Be prepared for an exciting and challenging adventure of solving puzzles, cracking codes, and unraveling mysteries from within. Enjoy an escape from reality with 4-10 friends in 60 minutes while testing your wits. Book now to see if you have what it takes to become and Escape Artist or are you just another chump?!
3
Start:Kingwood Library
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(6) review
4400 Bens View Ln Kingwood, Houston, TX 77339-3774
4
Start:Houston Police Stables
Houston, Texas·
5.0
(8) review
5005 Little York Rd, Houston, TX 77016-2547
5
Start:Stages Repertory Theatre
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(90) review
Founded in 1978, Stages Repertory Theatre is a not-for-profit professional theatre with two intimate performance spaces and deep roots in the Houston community. Stages produces year-round, performing a broad scope of new work, popular entertainment and re-imagined classics. Almost all of Stages shows are rehearsed and constructed on-site in Houston, brought to life by an exceptional community of locally-based artists and craftspeople along with occasional guest directors, actors and designers from around the world. With a mission to advance theatre and enliven community, Stages offers a greenhouse for new talent and ideas and a place for art, artists and audiences to thrive.
6
Start:Houston Grand Opera
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(94) review
Opera house in Houston that features opera presentations throughout the year.
7
Start:CSz Houston
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(7) review
2201 Preston St CSz Arena, Houston, TX 77003-2222
8
Start:Toyota Center
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(913) review
1510 Polk St, Houston, TX 77002-7130
9
Start:The Menil Collection
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(970) review
Houston philanthropists and art patrons John and Dominique de Menil established the Menil Foundation in 1954 to foster greater public understanding and appreciation of art, architecture, culture, religion, and philosophy. In 1987, the Menil Collection’s main museum building opened to the public. Today, the Menil Collection consists of a group of five art buildings and green spaces located within a residential neighborhood. The Menil remains committed to its founders’ belief that art is essential to human experience and fosters direct personal encounters with works of art. The museum welcomes all visitors free of charge to its buildings and surrounding green spaces.
10
Start:Texas Art Asylum
Houston, Texas·
3.5
(7) review
1719 Live Oak St, Houston, TX 77003-5205
11
Start:Axelrad Beer Garden
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(90) review
Axelrad is all about celebrating Houston, being outside, and relaxing. Conceived as a community-gathering place offering beer, wine, drinks, Luigi's pizza, live music, and the city's only hammock grove, Axelrad aims to be a place for all. The bar's interior is housed within a 100-year-old renovated building, originally a grocery store built by David and Gertrude Axelrad. Artists added to the beautiful historic interior with tap handles by Venezuelan-based Maria Rangel, seating by New Living's HTX Made, and textiles by Austin-based Nido.
12
Start:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Houston, Texas·
3.5
(91) review
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national, and regional art. Through dynamic exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications and accessible educational programs, the Museum reaches out to local, regional, national, and international audiences of various ages. CAMH is always fresh, always free.
13
Start:Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(96) review
900 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005
14
Start:British Isles
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(9) review
2366 Rice Blvd Ste B, Houston, TX 77005-2666
15
Start:The Naturalist Cafe & Lounge
Houston, Texas·
5.0
(9) review
6750 Main St, Houston, TX 77030-2202
16
Start:Smither Park
Houston, Texas·
4.5
(70) review
2402 Munger St, Houston, TX 77023-5140
17
Start:Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home Forest Park Lawndale
Houston, Texas·
3.0
(6) review
Forest Park Lawndale, one of Houston's landmarks, provides complete funeral and cemetery services, including assistance with memorial estate planning, pre-funding of final expenses and memorial design. Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home is located adjacent to the cemetery providing families who have suffered the loss of a loved one the ability to have all their immediate needs met in one convenient location. At Forest Park Lawndale, families are offered many different venues to memorialize the life and accomplishments of their loved ones. Rights of interment are offered in beautiful lawn interment space, as well as in mausoleum entombment within crypts situated in one of the cemetery's beautiful chapel or garden mausoleums. Lawn crypts in the Garden of Angels, Garden of Love, or the Garden of Peace are also available. For families selecting cremation, memorialization is beautifully achieved in the Rock Garden situated on the sloping banks of a tranquil lake or in elegant niche columbaria within the Abbey Mausoleum. Through the assistance of trained Dignity Memorial® service providers, meaningful tributes are designed according to the unique qualities of the life that is being remembered. Facilities for memorialization and funeral ceremonies are available in visitation and staterooms of varying size, two funeral home chapels, and the warm ambiance of The Chapel of Angels. At Forest Park Lawndale, each staff member is committed to a standard of excellence, ethics and honesty that guides them as they help families bring honor and recognition to the lives of their loved ones. As a Dignity Memorial provider, we offer exclusive benefits, including National Transferability of Prearranged Services, the Bereavement Travel Program, the 24-Hour Compassion Helpline® and access to an acclaimed grief management library. At Forest Park Lawndale each staff member has committed to a standard of excellence, ethics and honesty that guides them as they help families bring honor and recognition to the lives of their loved ones. We call it “The Dignity Promise.” The trust placed with Forest Park Lawndale by area families serves as a constant reminder of that commitment.
18
Start:Reliant Park
Houston, Texas·
4.0
(99) review
1 Nrg Park, Houston, TX 77054-1574
19
Start:Houston Botanic Garden
Houston, Texas·
3.0
(9) review
8210 Park Place Blvd One Botanic Lane, Houston, TX 77017-3105
20
Start:El Sido's Zydeco & Blues Club
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
3.5
(7) review
This Lafayette club features a lot of zydeco, Creole boogeying music, guaranteed to get you up out of your seat and dancing.
21
Start:Urns of Justice
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
3.5
(9) review
800 Lafayette St in front of John M. Shaw US Courthouse, Lafayette, LA 70501-6800
22
Start:Girard Park Center
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
4.0
(8) review
500 Girard Park Dr, Lafayette, LA 70503-2623
23
Start:Painting with a Twist
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
4.0
(7) review
Painting with a Twist brings wine, art and fun together in a unique experience. Painting with a Twist has events every week, check out the calendar, or plan a private gathering for Birthdays, Team Building or Bridal Parties!
24
Start:Cajundome & Convention Center
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
4.5
(77) review
444 Cajundome Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70506-4264
25
Start:Lafayette Science Museum
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
4.5
(96) review
Step into the vibrant world of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Science Museum, where curiosity knows no bounds!
26
Start:Vermilionville
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
4.5
(880) review
Get a taste of life for the 18th-century Acadian settlers in this 23-acre village with meticulously recreated period homes, costumed staff demonstrating arts and crafts and a restaurant serving Cajun and Creole food.
27
Start:Louisiana Airborne Memorial Bridge and Monument
Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana·
4.5
(7) review
Atchafalaya Welcome Center On Interstate-10 at the Butte La Rose Exit 121, Lafayette, LA 70517
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What's the driving distance between The Woodlands and Lafayette?
The distance is 228 miles
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The driving time can vary depending on traffic conditions, but it is typically 4h 24m mins in normal traffic
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