Edna is the gateway to the recreational boating and fishing enjoyed on the 11,000 acres of Lake Texana. The woodlands around town, thick with impressive live oaks, are also ideal for hunting, hiking and bird watching along the Great Texas Birding Trail. The area is home to a robust bald eagle habitat.
Planning a visit? Stay at the Brackenridge Recreation Complex.
The Brackenridge Recreation Complex on the plantation homesite of 1850s merchant John Adams Brackenridge offers sports and lake activities. The park facilities offer a regular schedule of festivals and rodeos throughout the year, most notably the Red White and Bulls event in July. The historic Texana Presbyterian Church, organized and built in 1859, continues to host events in the park as the oldest surviving church in Jackson County.
Just about anything of importance to the inhabitants of the Texas coast has been collected in the Texana Museum on Wells Street, the main commercial center in Edna. Exhibits include a mastodon’s jaw, a Chickering Piano from 1860 and a 300-year old violin. Behind the museum is the two-story brick county jail, which was constructed in 1922. Mural paintings, carrying on the tradition of the admired muralists of Mexico, tell more of the Edna story on downtown buildings, many of which were constructed following a fire that devastated the town in 1906.
