Houston SmartHunts®

Houston offers many landmarks and a diverse culture

SmartHunts® Houston scavenger hunt is an experience that will have your team buzzing with excitement. Blending fun, exploration, and corporate teambuilding, SmartHunts can customize your event to include much of what the huge city of Houston has to offer, including unique food & drink, as well as highlighting the features of Houston mix of modern and historic culture.
SmartHunts takes your team on a scavenger hunt through this great city where they can discover their own Houston – Texas-style.

Whether your team is local to the area, or visiting from out-of-town, the SmartHunts team can create a fresh experience for your group with fun our corporate scavenger hunts.
SmartHunts Houston scavenger hunt offers a unique corporate adventure tailored just for you and can take your group on any combination of Houston including:

1. City of Houston
   Texas has come a long way since gaining independence from Mexico in 1836 and becoming the 28th U.S. state in 1845.

   Houston is now the 4th largest city in the U.S. and home to more than 2 million residents. There’s a lot of “world class” happening here from pro sports to the arts, shopping and cuisine. It’s a great place for SmartHunts’ Houston scavenger hunt!

   Award winning medical facilities and 25 Fortune 500 companies make their home here. First rate museums are the norm, the parks are exceptional and the zoo second only to one. And lest we forget, that whole “space program” thing.

   Memorial Park is one of the many municipal parks in Houston and one of the largest in the country weighing in at a whopping 1,466 acres.

   Listed below are some its many attributes:

   Bayou Wilds is a 600 acre “urban” forest located by Buffalo Bayou, great for hiking, biking and canoeing.

   Eastern Glades is a 100-acre recreational area on the east side of the park featuring a 5-acre lake, a boardwalk, walking trails, pavilions, wetlands and natural habitats. Food trucks too!

   Memorial Park also has an arboretum, a golf course, a bird sanctuary and soon, a sports complex will be added to the north side.
2. Downtown Houston
   Downtown Houston is also an exciting location for your Houston scavenger hunt! Whether your interests lie in theater, art, music, history, shopping, dining, partying or any combination thereof, Downtown has a great selection of all the various types of activities the city has to offer.

   Just a handful of things to do in downtown include:

   Minute Maid Park – Houston Astros MLB

   Toyota Center – Houston Rockets NBA

   PNC Stadium – Houston Dynamo FC, Houston Dash NWSL, concerts and events

   Avenida Houston – Texas’ biggest entertainment campus. Situated along the front of
   George R. Brown Convention Center, it extends from Minute Maid Park to Hilton Americas Hotel and includes a plethora of bars, restaurants, hotels and shops.

   Houston Center – shopping, dining and entertainment

   713 Music Hall

   Bayou Music Center

   House of Blues Houston

   Le Chateau Houston

   Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar

   Houston Fire Museum

   Houston Maritime Museum

   Downtown Aquarium

   Bisong Art Gallery

   Esperson Gallery

   Alley Theatre

   Hobby Center for the Performing Arts | Theater Under the Stars

   Jones Hall for the Performing Arts | Houston Symphony
   Wortham Theater Center | Houston Ballet | Houston Grand Opera

   Niels Esperson Building – an outstanding National Landmark of the Italian Renaissance style and the tallest office building west of the Mississippi at the time of its construction in 1927.
3. City Parks
   Market Square Park is located in central downtown and offers a large central lawn, a performance area, garden, fountain, tons of public art and is bordered by an excellent selection of watering holes and restaurants.

   Hermann Square is a small public park with a reflecting pool located in front of City Hall and is used daily for events, concerts and protests.

   Tranquility Park commemorates the Apollo 11 mission. 5 sculptures representing rockets rise from a 32-level fountain with reflecting pool and bronze plaques relate the story of the Apollo Mission.

   Discovery Green is a 12-acre urban park used for recreations such as bocce ball, croquet and horseshoes. Kinder Lake within has water gardens and a model boat area. The walkways, art installations and picnic areas are shaded by 100-year-old oaks. There’s an interactive fountain, an amphitheater and casual or elegant dining are available within the park.

   Sesquicentennial Park is a 22-acre park built to commemorate Houston’s 150-year anniversary. It runs along the banks of Buffalo Bayou and includes a promenade, a fountain, lots of large shade trees, public art and a pedestrian bridge connecting the banks of the bayou.

   Sam Houston Park is the oldest municipal park in the city dating back to 1899 and is now completely surrounded by modern office buildings and freeways. It retains its Victorian landscaping and is home to monuments, public art and 8 historic structures dating as far back as 1823.
4. Hermann Park
   Hermann Park is a 445-acre urban public park located between the Museum District and the Texas Medical Center and is an exceptional location for a Houston scavenger hunt.

   George Hermann was an entrepreneur in the late 19th century who dealt in cattle, wood products and oil. Upon his death in 1914 he bequeathed his land and fortune to Houston which resulted in the creation of Hermann Park, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas Medical Center and Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

   Listed below are some of the points of interest in Hermann Park:

   Mecom Fountain is a beautiful fountain that adorns the northern entrance to the park and it was the largest in Houston at the time of its installation in 1964.

   Mecom Rockwell Colonnade and fountain (different fountain) includes limestone columns from the first Miller Outdoor Theatre built in 1923.

   Sam Houston Monument is a truly impressive 20 ft tall bronze sculpture of the General and his horse Saracen sitting atop a 25 ft tall granite archway. It can be found between the Mecom Fountain and the reflection pool.

   Mary Gibbs and Jesse H Jones Reflection Pool is 80 ft wide and 740 ft long.

   The Pioneer Memorial obelisk, a monument celebrating Texas Independence, is situated at one end of the pool by a picnic area and a children’s interactive fountain.

   Japanese Garden is an absolutely gorgeous 5 acres of waterfalls, bridges, trees, flowers, a teahouse and winding walkways, all designed by Ken Nakajima.

   Miller Outdoor Theatre has indoor and lawn seating and features live music, ballet and the Shakespeare Festival.

   McGovern Lake is an 8-acre stocked lake with pedal boats and islands set aside for migratory birds. Catch and release fishing is allowed.

   McGovern Centennial Gardens covers 8 acres and features a rose garden, a sculpture promenade, an interactive edible garden, the Friendship Pavilion, a 30 ft tall garden mount and public art.

   Marvin Taylor Trail is a 2-mile, crushed granite walking and running trail shaded by a gigantic canopy of live oaks.

   Bayou Parkland sits next to Brays Bayou and is home to 80 acres of native flora and fauna.

   Brays Bayou is 31 miles long and runs through Hermann Park to the Houston Ship Channel. The banks of the Bayou provide a natural grassy area for recreating.

   Bill Coats Bridge spans the Bayou and connects Hermann Park to a network of trails 35 miles long that is great for hiking and biking.

   Houston Museum of Natural Science is located in the northern end of Hermann Park and includes a planetarium, an observatory, the biggest O-scale model railroad in Texas, permanent and traveling exhibits and a giant screen theatre.

   Hermann Park Golf Course is an 18-hole public course on the east side of the park.

   Hermann Park Railroad winds through the park and is a fun way to get around

   Houston Zoo covers 55 acres in Hermann Park and is home to 4,500+ exotic animals representing 800 species.
5. Houston Galleria
   Attention Shoppers! The Houston Galleria is the largest mall in Texas and the 7th largest in the U.S. with 4 Floors, 285 Stores, 40 Restaurants and Bars, and 400,838 square feet of upscale retail heaven featuring…

   Chanel
   Gucci
   Louis Vuitton
   Neiman Marcus
   Nordstrom
   Macy’s
   Saint Laurent
   Saks Fifth Avenue
   Salvatore Ferragamo
   Christian Louboutin
   Prada
   Dior
   Armani

   And many, many more.
   Have fun!