The wife and I went to San Angelo this weekend. It wasn't our original plan and we weren't expecting much, but we found that San Angelo was a nice place to visit for a weekend. If you are the type of couple who enjoys things for what they are and can have fun doing your own thing, it is worth a visit. For us, 2 nights was just right. We didn't bring the kids so we don't have any idea if kid activities exist.
We stayed at the Old Central Firehouse Bed and Brew, which was cool. The rooms are new and very nice. They also own a pizza restaurant downstairs, which was very convenient. Good pizza but the best part was the "beer bar" or whatever they call it. There were 24 beer choices and it measured by the 0.1 ounce so you could try all the beers a few ounces at a time rather than needing to buy a full glass or a flight to try something.
San Angelo has a nice river walk. It isn't like San Antonio's with restaurants more like a nature trail along the Concho River. But it's a nice nature trail plenty of light and felt very safe to us at night. Several of the activities we did: walk along the river to the international waterlily collection (interesting on a Saturday morning when people are there to tell you about them), Eggemeyer's General Store (an eclectic and nice place to go if shopping is on the agenda), Miss Hattie's Bordello Museum (somewhat entertaining even though the "story" is complete bull****e), Fort Concho (cool history), and the art museum (there were very few pieces that made me think "That's not art. I can do that."). There were a few other little things to do around downtown. Except for the state park and Fort Concho, we walked everywhere, which also helped in mentally removing us from the world for the weekend. It would have been better in the fall when it wasn't 100 degrees, but oh well.
The only place I would not recommend was San Angelo State Park. The only reason it even exists is the former popularity of O.C. Fisher Reservoir, which is now at about 5% capacity. It was sad more than anything. At a time when camping sites are hard to come by on weekends, they seemed to be available in abundance there.
We stayed at the Old Central Firehouse Bed and Brew, which was cool. The rooms are new and very nice. They also own a pizza restaurant downstairs, which was very convenient. Good pizza but the best part was the "beer bar" or whatever they call it. There were 24 beer choices and it measured by the 0.1 ounce so you could try all the beers a few ounces at a time rather than needing to buy a full glass or a flight to try something.
San Angelo has a nice river walk. It isn't like San Antonio's with restaurants more like a nature trail along the Concho River. But it's a nice nature trail plenty of light and felt very safe to us at night. Several of the activities we did: walk along the river to the international waterlily collection (interesting on a Saturday morning when people are there to tell you about them), Eggemeyer's General Store (an eclectic and nice place to go if shopping is on the agenda), Miss Hattie's Bordello Museum (somewhat entertaining even though the "story" is complete bull****e), Fort Concho (cool history), and the art museum (there were very few pieces that made me think "That's not art. I can do that."). There were a few other little things to do around downtown. Except for the state park and Fort Concho, we walked everywhere, which also helped in mentally removing us from the world for the weekend. It would have been better in the fall when it wasn't 100 degrees, but oh well.
The only place I would not recommend was San Angelo State Park. The only reason it even exists is the former popularity of O.C. Fisher Reservoir, which is now at about 5% capacity. It was sad more than anything. At a time when camping sites are hard to come by on weekends, they seemed to be available in abundance there.
