Area Attactions

 Celebration Market is located in the Downtown District and features local grown produce, homemade arts and crafts, homemade goodies, entertainment and more. Children enjoy the splash pad, bubbles, balloons, and hands-on activities.

 The downtown district features a variety of local shops, and dining.  

The Southwest Dairy Museum and Learning Center, exhibits depict all facets of milk production from an early farm kitchen to the modern day manufacturing of milk products. It also houses an old-fashioned soda bar where visitors can enjoy ice cream treats and light lunches, as well as a souvenir shop.

Texas State Railroad, which has a rail station in Rusk and one in Palestine. Take a relaxing train ride through the piney woods of East Texas, enjoy unique special events with your family or relax on a romantic evening train on select dates throughout the season! This historic railroad offers steam train excursions that travel 25 miles through the scenic piney woods and hardwood creek bottoms of East Texas amidst a backdrop of rolling hills, nature and wildlife.

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 First Monday is considered the largest free flea market in the United States, and is held on Thursday - Sunday preceding the first Monday of each month. Up to 100,000 visitors can shop there in a given weekend. Visit our new site www.CantonTxFirstMonday.com
for details about First Monday venues, market dates, parking, lodging, dining, attractions, the City of Canton and much more information!

 Another popular outdoor attraction is the New York Texas ZipLine Adventure, located near the community of LaRue, Texas, about 1 1/4 hours southeast of Emory. Each ZipLine Tour lasts pproximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Choose between a 6 ZipLine Tour or the newest  9 ZipLine Challenge Tour with a 1500 ft. line with 2 cable sky bridges leading to a 40 foot zip tower. Tours are available for ages 5 and up. Certain restrictions apply. A "ground school" coaches those new to the sport. The ZipLine is located at 7290 CR 4328, LaRue, Texas 75770 Detailed directions to the ZipLine. For more information, call 903.681.3791.

 Welcome to the East Texas Oil Museum, located on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas. This fascinating museum houses the authentic re-creation of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries. Here, visitors see the people, their towns, their personal habits, their tools and their pastimes – all colorfully depicted in dioramas, movies, sound presentations and actual antiques of the era. 

 At 27,264 acres and 315 miles of shoreline, Lake Fork was designed to be a premier bass fishing lake and currently holds records for 34 out of the Top 50 largemouth bass caught in Texas. This popular lake located on the Sabine River in Hopkins, Rains and Wood Counties, 5 miles northwest of Quitman, and north of Mineola. It was impounded in 1980, and today reaches a depth of 70 feet.