With Buc-Ee’s going nationwide, are Texans still passionate? (Houston: camping, parking)

[Ghost Town]

Not a cultist but I would prefer to stop at their store every time I go on a road trip. Their brisket sandwiches are really awesome. New discovery: Buckee's burrito. Really good

[CatherineAragon]

Hey, I love me some Buc-ees. I always like their clean bathrooms, and it's hard to beat their selection of just about any convenience store stuff. If that makes me a cultist, so be it - LOL.

[compSciGuy]

When the COVID-19 lockdowns and adjusted store hours hit, I was thankful that Buc-ees was there. I drove there more than a few times to grab stuff in the middle of the night. Thankfully, now I found Winco.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

No. People that wear their shirts, put their bumper sticker on their trucks and shove it down others throats are

Now you’re just being hard on the Beaver.

[BobTex]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

Nah. There's 5 super stores. Katy, Baytown, Waller, Lake Jackson and Texas City. The only metro area that has as many is DFW which makes sense because they’re the two largest metros.

But yeah, there are those smaller concept stores that you mention (though still large for a c store) where they saturate those towns in the southern suburbs of Houston.

That makes sense because I never have reason to travel anywhere south of H-town south of the Beltway. I did go into the south edge of L. Jack but was coming from Surfside which we had accessed via west Galveston Is.

I should expound that I usually make my 4-5 trips into Houston/burbs via US 59 (East Tex Frwy) from where I live but do occasionally come in thru Baytown taking the backroads to Winnie then I-10 westbound. We also circumvent Houston via The Grand Parkway (Tx 99) when heading west from out east Tx woodsy domicile (going to the Hill Country, SA area ). There are no Buc Ee's east or NE of H-town at all. I think I-45 north of Madisonville is the easternmost site in-state.

Kinda sux that Bucees ignores that side of Texas especially considering that I-10 is the most heavily traveled east/west route in the US. One would think that a Beaumont area store on the interstate would thrive. Also a site in Livingston would be great especially with the I-14 corridor making a crossroad there.

[michaeltx9412]

Originally Posted by BobTex

That makes sense because I never have reason to travel anywhere south of H-town south of the Beltway. I did go into the south edge of L. Jack but was coming from Surfside which we had accessed via west Galveston Is.

I should expound that I usually make my 4-5 trips into Houston/burbs via US 59 (East Tex Frwy) from where I live but do occasionally come in thru Baytown taking the backroads to Winnie then I-10 westbound. We also circumvent Houston via The Grand Parkway (Tx 99) when heading west from out east Tx woodsy domicile (going to the Hill Country, SA area ). There are no Buc Ee's east or NE of H-town at all. I think I-45 north of Madisonville is the easternmost site in-state.

Kinda sux that Bucees ignores that side of Texas especially considering that I-10 is the most heavily traveled east/west route in the US. One would think that a Beaumont area store on the interstate would thrive. Also a site in Livingston would be great especially with the I-14 corridor making a crossroad there.

There is a Bucee's off I-10 in Baytown.

Buc-ee's
(979) 238-6390
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5otwQZcLYFfAfj5A8

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by michaeltx9412

There is a Bucee's off I-10 in Baytown.

Buc-ee's
(979) 238-6390
https://maps.app.goo.gl/5otwQZcLYFfAfj5A8

I think he’s referring to the portions like Kingwood, Conroe, Cleveland, etc. Not sure where BobTex lives but the way he describes his routes, I 10 isn’t in this direction. I think N/NE would have been a better way to describe the area he was referring to.

With that in mind, he has a point. Greater Houston is well covered by Buc-Ee’s for a good 270 degree. But the N/NE portions are lacking. Considering Houston is Buc-Ee’s home market, they do lack in that direction. And take into account that Northern Houston is growing very rapidly and DFW is in that direction (making Texas two largest metros), you’d think Conroe or perhaps Huntsville would be perfect for a Buc-Ee’s. But I guess the Madisonville location serves the purpose for this commute.

[BobTex]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

I think he’s referring to the portions like Kingwood, Conroe, Cleveland, etc. Not sure where BobTex lives but the way he describes his routes, I 10 isn’t in this direction. I think N/NE would have been a better way to describe the area he was referring to.

With that in mind, he has a point. Greater Houston is well covered by Buc-Ee’s for a good 270 degree. But the N/NE portions are lacking. Considering Houston is Buc-Ee’s home market, they do lack in that direction. And take into account that Northern Houston is growing very rapidly and DFW is in that direction (making Texas two largest metros), you’d think Conroe or perhaps Huntsville would be perfect for a Buc-Ee’s. But I guess the Madisonville location serves the purpose for this commute.

Actually I do go by the Baytown store some (went by it twice last week after going to the Pasadena Fairgrounds gun show and stopped once). As I said , maybe not clearly, I hit I-10 at Winnie and go westbound into Houston occasionally. At the point of coming to the Baytown store though it is solid metro environment into Houston proper. Yes, there's Stinkadena between the Houston city limit and Baytown but again, making that distinction is just semantics as it is all metro environment. In my mind, it's "Houston". I could say the same about the Woodlands/Kingwood or even Katy as the metro has expanded out to and past these areas.

My gripe and suggestion is for a store outside of the Htown metro area to the EAST or Northeast. I suggested Livingston (50 miles north of IAH) which is on the I-69/US59 corridor (Trans-Texas Corridor) and on the planned route of I-14 which will follow the east-west route of US190. I also suggested the Beaumont area because of the hyper heavy cross country Interstate 10 traffic.


I hate to be redundant or unclear but this was all stated in my previous post. The Baytown and Katy stores are both in the Houston Metro area.

ParaSwag --- I live in a remote unpopulated area of East/SE Texas halfway between Beaumont and Lufkin.

I've looked at the map of Bucees locations several times in the last year or so and even noted the largest of all Bucees going in near Gatlinburg, Tenn. I own 30+ acres about 20 miles from there in them thar hills. I went to the point of emailing Bucees corporate with similar suggestions as I put in this post at some point last year.

[Raider Scott]

Apparently having a bumper sticker on your car is "forcing XXX down someone's throat" today.


LOL some of you crack me up.

[NigerianNightmare]

The Buc-Ed’s cult doesn’t exist it’s very mainstream, and well liked but the “cult” aspect is mroe out-of-state than in state.

I stop basically every time I go back to Houston. Last time I stopped I saw a bunch of Chinese tourists like a tour bus full at Buc-ee’s. Theirs no real tourist sites in Texas outside of San Antonio and NASA (most of the other ones are so meh that every decent city in existence has something equivalent to it). But what we see as Tourism is very different from international tourists. Theirs a whole town in England that’s famous for being a stereotypically English town but no one outside of East Asian tourists care.

But now Buc-Ed’s whether with Out-of-Staters or International tourists is a must see for a lot of the Texas road-trip/vacation tours. It’s gone viral on Tiktok multiple times, and this is just ransoms promoting it rather than paid advertisement.

It’s ironic something so purely functional is a tourist site but then again, Tokyo is very high on my list and half of the reason is functionality.