Arturo Galvan Coastal Park — Attraction in Port Isabel

After years of planning and delays, this park came into being. It is a smaller park, but it offers great fishing, clean restrooms, picnic areas & playground. If fishing just make sure you plan for the tides as the Laguna Madre will come over the rocks to the shore at high tide. They need to add lights along the walkway as it would help during the morning/evening hours. One down point is the amount of trash visitors leave all over. There are numerous garbage cans, but apparently its too difficult for people to use them. It hasn't been opened very long, yet it is basically trashed, visitors need...

I have fished this area for many years way before it became a city/county park. Now that the city's been showcasing it for all to see, this location's been fished out. It's really sad. Everyone's going, catching, and taking every fish from there. I have practiced catch n release and now it's gotten to a point where you hardly even get a bite. This location is one of a very few nurseries for fish to breed and now humans have destroyed it. Thank you Port Isabel. Job well done in destroying habitat...

It's nice but they use broken up cement for erosion control and the cement has rusty rebar sticking up out of the water. There's warning signs about walking in the water and it should be heeded because it's pretty dangerous. We were going to go fishing but we didn't want to walk in the water to cast out farther because it looked dangerous. They have flush toilets a nice playground for kids and a nice...