Monday, September 28, 2015

# 134 Texas City Dike

 Texas City Dike
Dike Road Texas City Texas
The dike is open 24 hours a day
There are fees charged at certain times of the year to enter and fish on the dike. The fee schedule is below. This is a saltwater fishing location.





Directions: From the intersection of I-45 south and FM 1764 continue east 9 miles. You will dead end. Turn right .1 and then left to the dike.


The Texas City Dike is a man made levee located in Texas City, TX that goes nearly 5 miles into the mouth of Galveston Bay.  There are several piers and bank fishing available on both sides of the road rock jetties. Wade fishing and kayaking are both popular off the dike.

 During the summer months (first weekend in March to last weekend in October) there is a $5 charge per vehicle to enter the dike on weekends. It is free during the winter months and summer weekdays (Mondays through Thursdays — unless they are holidays). On holiday weekends (Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the Fourth of July and Saturday, Sunday and Monday on Memorial Day and Labor Day) the fee will be $10 per vehicle per day.
Currently has several boat ramps they are some of the busiest boat ramps on Galveston Bay.
The dike has 10 picnic shelters, 200 trash receptacles, 26 portable toilets, asphalt and crushed gravel parking areas, roughly three-quarter miles of beaches, potable water to two fish cleaning tables, and 48 solar street and boat ramp lights.

The dike is roughly 5.3 miles long with an asphalt road. There are wide shoulders on either side of improved crushed gravel.
 This dike has been advertised as the longest man-made pier.



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