Where to Stay in Spring, Texas

What is Spring known for?

The original settlement sits at the intersection of Spring-Cypress and Hardy roads and covers about 1 square kilometre, while the name Spring is applied loosely to a much wider stretch of Harris County. Two attractions carry visitors. The National Museum of Funeral History and SplashTown Houston sit within that wider area, and Hanna-Barbera Land belongs to the same short list of named sites.

What are the main landmarks in Spring?

A funeral museum leads. The National Museum of Funeral History is the oddest entry on the register, and the Wunsche Brothers Saloon and Hotel holds the crossing that made Old Town Spring. Water and cartoons follow.

SplashTown Houston and Hanna-Barbera Land account for the rest of the named sites across this part of Harris County.

What is the history of Spring?

The town began at a crossing. Spring-Cypress and Hardy roads meet at the point where the original settlement stood, and the whole of that first town occupied a footprint the modern name has long since outgrown. The old core kept a name of its own through all of it.

Old Town Spring is what the original settlement is called, and the Wunsche Brothers Saloon and Hotel survives there as the clearest building from the years before the wider area took the name. Houston did the rest. Growth out of the city carried the name Spring across a large stretch of Harris County and into part of Montgomery County, so that the word marks an area rather than a town.

No incorporation followed. Spring remained a census-designated place inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston, part of Greater Houston without being part of the city, which is how it stands in the county record. Attractions arrived with the sprawl.

SplashTown Houston, Hanna-Barbera Land and the National Museum of Funeral History all belong to that later stretch rather than to the crossing at Spring-Cypress and Hardy.

Where is Spring?

Harris County holds it. Spring covers roughly 59 square kilometres as a census-designated place, with the old crossing of Spring-Cypress and Hardy roads inside it and the wider use of the name reaching into Montgomery County. No city limits enclose it.

Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction reaches this ground, which puts Spring inside Greater Houston on every map that draws the metropolitan area.

What is the climate of Spring?

Humidity rules the long summer. The subtropical band across this part of Texas keeps the season hot and heavy, and Greater Houston shares the same air, so conditions in Spring track those of the city it sits beside. Cold weather hardly gets a foothold.

The cooler weeks fall at either end of the calendar, and Harris County sees them out quickly.

How do you get to Spring?

Every route runs through Greater Houston, since Spring sits inside the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction rather than off on its own in Harris County. Hardy and Spring-Cypress roads meet at the old core. That crossing is where Old Town Spring gathers, and it stays the one part of the area a visitor can work on foot, with the Wunsche Brothers Saloon and Hotel at its centre.

SplashTown Houston lies further out.