This page contains the 2024 tour list and the maps we used for the tour group. Road conditions may have changed or destinations may no longer be present (ie, restaurant has closed or changed hands). Enjoy our past tours or look for some ideas for your future road travels.
2024 will bring a Courthouse theme to our tour schedule where we will plan to have a 10 minute stop (hopefully) at each court house along our route. There are 254 counties in Texas and our schedule for 2024 we will reach about 60 county court houses, if you are able to attend each of the tours.
1/1 (Monday): 9:00a Hair of the Dog Tour: We’ll start in front of the Tarrant County Courthouse (100 E Weatherford St, Fort Worth, TX 76196), parking on the Weatherford St (and add Main St if needed) side. We’ll travel from the Tarrant County Courthouse out to Parker County (Weatherford), Palo Pinto and then end in Hood County (Granbury) to end (Lunch). Please email tours@lscbmwcca.org if you are planning to join us with your car, car color and a phone number to reach you in the event we get separated. Maps. Completed 4 court houses so far.
2/24 (Saturday): Dallas County Courthouse to Rockwall, Kaufman and Van Zandt (Canton) Tour. Starting at 9:00a, we’ll travel from The Old Red Courthouse (100 S Houston St, Dallas, TX 75202), parking in front or on the Dealey Plaza side of the street. From there, we will travel Main St and head toward Rockwall County Courthouse, then to Kaufman and end in Van Zandt County (Canton, TX). Maps. Completed 8 court houses so far.
3/15-17 (Friday-Sunday): Twisted Sisters Tour. Make plans to join us on our annual Twisted Sisters destination but this year, we’ll add quite a few court houses to see along the way. For our overnight stay, we will be staying at the Inn of the Hills in Kerrville, TX. Our rate per night will be $129 + Tax and will be available until 2 weeks before we arrive. For those not familiar, the Twisted Sisters refers to Rural Route 337, 335 and 336 near Leakey, TX. There are more roads around Leakey that can be added to the Twisted Sisters nomenclature but they are all pretty fun. Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. Completed 25 court houses ( 5, 5, 7)
4/13 or 4/14 (Sat/Sun): Bluebonnet Tour. J.O. will help lead the group through two counties, Ellis and Navarro, while stopping to see the Blue Bonnets along the way. This is a very low-speed event with lots of opportunity to stop and take some pictures along the way. J.O.’s preference is to do the drive on Sunday, 4/14, but we will see how the weather holds up for this. To start our tour, we will meet at 9:00 a.m. at the Ellis County District Courthouse in Waxahachie, Texas 75165 to take pictures of the Historic building. Then we will proceed to Palmer, Tx. After the Blue Bonnet drive, we will regroup at Buc-ee’s to drive to the Navarro County Courthouse in Corsicana, Texas 75110 to take pictures of another Historic building. Located at 300 W 3rd Ave., Corsicana, Tx. We will have lunch at the Corcina Azteca Mexican Restaurant, 122 W 3rd Ave., Corsicana, Texas. Maps. Completed 27 courthouses this year.
May 18th (Sat): Denton, Cooke and Grayson County Courthouse Tour. Starting from the Denton County Courthouse (110 W Hickory St, Denton, TX 76201) at 9:00a, we’ll head north and visit Cooke County (Gainsville), the court house and an old Gulf-Gas station located at the Amtrak Station and end in Sherman at the Grayson County Courthouse around lunch time (for lunch at Old Iron Post – 101 N Travis St, Sherman, TX 75090). After lunch, if you are up for it, I’ll add FM 697 to the return trip and end us in Anna or Prosper. Maps. Completed 30 Courthouses for 2024 so far.
6/8 (Sat): Collin, Fannin, Lamar, Delta and Hunt Courthouse Tour. Starting from the Old Collin County Courthouse (111 N Tennessee St, McKinney, TX 75069) at 9:00a, we’ll travel out to Fannin County (Bonham), then Lamar (Paris, TX), Delta (Cooper, TX), and then end in Hunt County (Greenville). We’ll stop along the way for lunch but this will take a little longer than 3 hours to finish.
July 4th (Thurs) or July 6th (Saturday): Cranfills Gap low-key adventure and post-lunch toward Gatesville and Coryell County, TX. If you have a preference, please email me with your thoughts.
8/17 (Sat): Wise, Montague, Clay and Jack County Courthouse Tour. Starting from downtown Decatur (this court house is under re-construction) at 9:00a, we’ll travel West to Montague (Montague, TX), through Nocona, stop in Clay County (Henrietta) and then end in Jack County (Jacksboro).
9/7-9/8 (Sat-Sun): Middle of the State Courthouse Tour. Starting from Cleburne, we’ll shoot for stopping at a lot of court houses through the middle of the state along with stopping in the center of Texas. Because of the distances and the number of courthouses, we’ll split this into an overnight trip and potentially add more. We should be able to hit: Johnson (Cleburne), Somervell (Glen Rose), Erath (Stephenville), Comanche, Brown (Brownwood), Coleman, Runnels (Ballinger), Tom Green (San Angelo), Concho (Paint Rock), McCulloch (Brady), San Saba, Mills (Goldwaite), Hamilton, Glen Rose, and back to Johnson (Cleburne).
10/5 (Sat): Mansfield to Waco and East Tour. We’ll start in Mansfield, TX (QuikTrip 1590 E Broad St, Mansfield, TX 76063) around 9:00a and then head South toward Waco and then East, hitting Hill County (Hillsboro), McLennan (Waco), Limestone (Groesbeck) and Freestone (Fairfield and I-45).
10/19 (Sat), 10a-12p: Ted’s Garage. Join us for Ted’s Garage Tour to see all his classic cars (1805 Sawmill Drive, Lucas, Texas 75002). The club will cater Deluxe Box lunches + water/sodas for members from Jason’s Deli in Murphy, TX. If anyone would like to lead a short tour afterwards, let me know. RSVP is required by Tuesday, October 15th to jojylmiller@aol.com, so I have an idea how many box lunches to order.
11/2 (Sat): Terrell to Palestine and Others Tour. Starting from Buc-ees in Terrell, we’ll stop at the Kaufman, Handerson (Athens), Anderson (Palestine), Cherokee (Rusk) and Smith (Tyler) County Courthouses. We’ll have lunch in Tyler and then a different way back home – hopefully we’ll see some color along the way.
12/7 (Sat): Falls Leaves (Weather toward Eastland) Tour. We’ll start at the Parker County Courthouse (PNC Bank 102 N Main St, Weatherford, TX 76086) at 9:00a and then head West – Palo Pinto, Young (Graham), Stephens (Breckenridge) and then end in Eastland County. That area typically has fun roads and maybe there will still be leaves on the trees.
12/19 (Thu): Christmas Lights Tour. Watch our announcement for what our Christmas Lights destination will be – this has been the Interlochen Neighborhood in Arlington, the Deerfield Neighborhood in Plano, Texas Motor Speedway Lights or we can look at a few other options. After looking at lights, we like to have dinner together and enjoy the holidays.
