Culture
W.H. Stark House
The place to start your trip to Orange is at one of the Stark Cultural Venues. Each one can sell you a combo pass to all three (Stark House, Stark Museum of Art and Shangri La Gardens) which youll definitely want to buy. To learn about the history of Oranges most affluent family, visit the W. H. Stark House Museum, an incredible 14,000 square foot Victorian home built as a showroom for the forest by the family who owned the largest sawmill in Texas at the time.
Stark Museum of Art
While the Stark home feels like a museum full of lavish decorations, the real museum is the Stark Museum of Art across the street housing one of the best collections of American Western Art in the country. Rather than keep their collection locked away, H.J. Lutcher Stark decided to put it in a museum that would be outstanding even in the Big Apple, but its here in the Small Orange.
Food
Old Orange Cafe
You better believe that the good folks in Southeast Texas know how to eat. For lunch in a casual old dairy building with chef-inspired cooking head to the Old Orange Cafe. The spicy chicken sandwich is one of the most delicious things Ive ever eaten.
Robert's Meat Market & Steakhouse
No matter the occasion, the time is always right to head to Roberts Meat Market & Steakhouse with a Cajun market on one side and a tasty steakhouse on the other serving hand-cut meat and Cajun classics that will make you fall in love with the people and food of Orange, Texas.
Outdoors
Shangri-La Botanical Gardens
For a outdoor dose of exquisite beauty, head to Shangri-La Botanical Gardens with absolutely stunning gardens, greenhouses and wildlife viewing areas to enjoy all that this tropical bayou has to offer. I highly recommend a guided boat ride that will give you a brand new appreciation for all the beauty this part of Texas has to offer.
