North Barrier Coast

North Barrier Coast is on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

Cities

• 1 Alvin
• 2 Bay City
• 3 Baytown
• 4 Clute
• 5 Galveston
• 6 Houston and its surrounding metropolitan area.
• 7 Palacios
• 8 Seabrook
• 9 Sugar Land
• 10 Surfside

Other destinations

• 1 Bolivar Peninsula - long barrier island like strip with beaches, mosquitos and bird sanctuaries
• 2 Brazos Bend State Park - Wooded campsites, an astronomical observatory and a huge population of alligators
• 3 Galveston Island - An interesting city, numerous Gulf beaches that attract distinctively different crowds, and a naturally vegetated barrier island state park.

The three national wildlife refuges on the Texas coast, Brazoria, San Bernard and Big Boggy, form a vital complex of coastal wetlands harboring more than 300 bird species.

• 4 Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge
• 5 San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge
• 6 Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge

Understand

The North Barrier Coast runs from the north side of Lavaca Bay, across from Port Lavaca, north past Houston and Galveston to the east side of Galveston Bay. It covers territory up to around 80 mi (130 km) inland, including many small communities along US 59/ I-69, for example.