Kilgore

Kilgore is in the Central Piney Woods region of East Texas. Home to slightly less than 13,000 residents, Kilgore is often identified as the "Oil Capital of East Texas", due to its proximity near the center of the vast East Texas Oilfield. Residents are proud of their heritage, and evidence of the city's prominence in petroleum production is widespread and accentuated throughout Kilgore.

Get in
The nearest airports serving the area around Kilgore are Tyler Pounds Regional Airport, and Longview East Texas Regional Airport. However, Kilgore is easily accessible via automobile, and maintains a bus station which serves Greyhound Bus Lines.

Get around
Kilgore is just south of the junction of US Highway 259 and IH20, and at the junctions of Texas Highways 31 and 42. US 259 is the city's main thoroughfare; most places of note and interest lie within a few blocks of it. Kilgore's historic (and revitalized) downtown area is easily accessed from Kilgore Street, one of the city's major east-west streets. The side streets can tend to be on the rough side, typical for a small East Texas town, but all are passable in essentially any automobile.

Buy
There are antique and curio shops in downtown Kilgore. If you have time and money to spend, they're worth browsing through. You never know what you may run across. Oilfield mementos of all shapes and sizes are readily available all over town.