Clear Lake Shores est une ville située dans le comté de Galveston, dans l’État du Texas, aux États-Unis. Elle fait partie de l’aire urbaine de Houston. Sa population s’élevait à 1 063 habitants lors du recensement de 2010, estimée à 1 194 habitants en 2016.
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Clear Lake Shores is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States, located within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,258.
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Kemah is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, southeast of Houston along west Galveston Bay. The city's population was 1,807 at the 2020 census, down from 2,330 at the 2000 census. Located in Galveston County, Kemah's main industry is shipping. Originally a small fishing town, the city has become a tourist destination for the area's restaurants and attractions, which are contained within the Kemah Entertainment District. In 2012 Kemah was ranked the top tourism spot in the Greater Houston area.
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Boardwalk Bullet is a wooden roller coaster at the Kemah Boardwalk amusement park in Kemah, Texas. The ride opened on August 31, 2007, and is the only wooden roller coaster in the Greater Houston area, as well as being one of only four wooden coasters in Texas. It is 96 feet tall, features a drop of 92 feet, and is 3,236 feet long, with top speeds of 51 mph. It has a maximum vertical angle of 56 degrees.
The ride was designed by The Gravity Group. At a cost of $3.044 million, it was built on a 1-acre footprint, making it the most compact wooden coaster in the world, with 42 track crossovers. A full ride experience on Boardwalk Bullet lasts approximately one minute and 45 seconds.
The ride has two trains built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters. Each train has six cars, and each car seats four riders in two rows of two, for a total of 24 riders per train.
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The Kemah Boardwalk is a 60-acre boardwalk and amusement park in Kemah, Texas. The boardwalk is built entirely along the shores of Galveston Bay and Clear Lake. The complex is owned and operated by Landry's, and has rides, restaurants, midway games, a boutique hotel, a charter yacht, a 400-slip marina, and shops. There is no charge to walk on the boardwalk, but tickets are sold for individual rides.
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Clear Creek is a small river in Southeast Texas in the United States, which channels much of the run-off in southeast Harris County into Clear Lake and Galveston Bay. Much of the length of the stream forms the boundary between Harris County and Galveston County and all of the boundary with Brazoria County. It originates in the Blue Ridge Oilfield in Fort Bend County.