Crockett to Palestine

After passing the northern part of the highway ring around Crockett, we were soon on a local road that had a temporary sign saying “Rough Road”. They weren’t kidding since after a short time we lost the pavement and had an unpaved road for a while. Getting into Latexo, we crossed over U.S. 287/Texas 19 onto a local road…that really turned out to be local. It was unpaved often with a sandy base that we had to push the bikes through. This went on for a number of miles until we got close to Grapeland when paving reappeared. Being gun-shy, we decided against the originally planned local roads which would have taken us to Elkhart and Palestine and took U.S. 287/Texas 19 instead. Noisy, but mostly good road shoulder to ride on.

Because of the sandy road conditions, this route was not good for a road bike. You should use US 287/Texas 19 instead of the small local roads.