lodging choices

 

If you are coming to Lubbock for a Texas Tech football game, the Stadium Motel is conveniently located across the street from Jones AT&T Stadium.  However, that probably would not be a good choice -- the reviews of the single-story, 20-room motel are bad and it ranks #46 out of 56 motels in Lubbock; besides, this evening it showed a "no vacancy" sign.  A few blocks away, past the high-rise apartment buildings, is the Overton Hotel, a AAA Four-Diamond facility.  Before the new constructions, when University Avenue was still College Avenue, J. T. Davis, father of Mac Davis, operated the College Courts, an efficiency apartment complex. Mac lived there while growing up, just south of the Stadium Motel, but progress has removed many of the old places -- Stadium Motel excluded. If you wish, at the Overton Hotel, you can request the Mac Davis Suite, named for the hometown boy who "done good."  Located on the 15th floor, the Mac Davis Suite has a panoramic view of Lubbock and will only set you back $999.00 a night (breakfast included).

 

Stadium Motel

405 University Avenue

Lubbock, Texas

picnic on the prairie

Standing above the prairie like a cluster of square-capped mushrooms, these lonely shelters forlornly await frolicking picnickers.  Alas, the wait has been long, as evidenced by the table-high native grasses.  Located at the far north end of the Lubbock Lake Landmark, the picnic area is seldom visited by those coming to explore the archaeological site, whose excavation has revealed a record of nearly 12,000 years of human history. Those who hike the trails of the natural history preserve seldom venture this way and the wild flower boardwalk does not extend this far. If you visit and bring your lunch, there are picnic shelters scattered throughout the 335-acre park. 

Lubbock Lake Landmark
2401 Landmark Drive
Lubbock, Texas