Bonfire Memorial — Attraction in College Station

This is a great COVID friendly outdoor activity for you and the kids or with the dog or even as a date. First off, its an easy to access place, with easy terrain, with public restrooms that are well maintained. Bonfire memorial is an incredibly important memorial to the Aggie Way Of Life so learning more about it is a great activity for your family or your date. There is a statue about the life of each student lost during the bonfire collapse. The time commitment to fully explore this is about 20-30 minutes, so easy in/out. There are big sloping grass hills for the kids to play on. From there you can easily walk onwards to other places around campus...

First off, this place is special to our family. We pay our respects whenever we have time on our visit to B/CS. We noticed this time the asphalt that was recently laid to make it more accessible had ripples, tire tracks, and indentions that makes it look subpar for a memorial center. To have this damage noticeable so soon after the renovation should not be acceptable. Another item that called our attention was the hue of the lights used to illuminate the area, ORANGE? Our previous visits have been during the day so to see the color of the lights threw us for a loop. There may be a reason for it but we were...

I have to wonder how many would have died that night had drinking and drunkenness not been such an integral part of college life at the time.

That said, the memorial is extremely well done and is a fitting trubute to those who died and to all Aggies who ever took part in displaying "that burning desire to beat the Hell outa tu'! I hope the school brings Bonfire back in the Fall of 2024

The date of the bonfire tragedy is of particular importance to me as it was the 25th anniversary of my father's early death. He took his own life while I was a senior at A&M -...