Harlingen
Harlingen is a city in Cameron County, Texas.
Harlingen is a city in Cameron County, Texas. It is located in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley, about 30 miles (48 km) from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than 40 square miles (104 km2) and is the second-largest city in Cameron County, as well as the sixth-largest in the Rio Grande Valley. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 71,892.
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Worth seeing in and around Harlingen
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Marine Military Academy
The Marine Military Academy is a private college preparatory academy located in Harlingen, Texas, US, offering a curriculum for boys in grades 7–12 plus one year of post-graduate study. The school was founded in 1965.
4.4 km · private college preparatory academy in Harlingen, TX, US · Wikipedia - 02Harlingen Field
Harlingen Field is a baseball park in Harlingen, Texas, that has been home to professional baseball, such as the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings and the Harlingen Giants, and high school baseball. It has undergone numerous expansions and renovations throughout its fifty-year history, most notably in the early 2000s.
1 km · baseball park in Harlingen, Texas, US · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Harlingen Arts and Heritage Museum, 2425 Boxwood St. Here find dioramas and oddities that characterize the area culturally and historically. Tel: +1 956-216-4900. Tu-Sa 10AM-4PM, Su 1PM-4PM. Iwo Jima Memorial & Museum, 320 Iwo Jima Blvd, in the Marine Military Academy. Relates the vital mission the Marines played at Iwo Jima and in the Pacific Theater. Tel: +1 956-421-9234. M-Sa 10AM-4PM.
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Things to do
Hugh Ramsey Nature Park, 1000 TX-499 Loop. Part of the World Birding Center, with trails and observation blinds. Tel: +1 956-216-5951. Daily 6AM-10PM. Harlingen Performing Arts Theater, 3217 Wilson Rd. Carries multiple entertainers and acts. Tel: +1 956-427-3571.
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Where to eat
- 01Colletti's
202 S 1st St,.
- 02Don Gollito Restaurant
417 W Van Buren Ave,.
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Getting to Harlingen
- Airports
- Monterrey (MTY), 245 km
- Stations
- Valley International Airport, 5.4 km
- Houston → Harlingen459 km · quickest by road, 7h 49m · $42–60
- San Antonio → Harlingen368 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · $32–44
- Austin → Harlingen453 km · quickest by road, 7h 17m · $42–55
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Harlingen
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Harlingen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inApart from coming in with your own boat, there are daily ferry services to the islands of Terschelling and Vlieland, operated by Rederij Doeksen.
- Go nextYou're right on the beach, so why not hop on a ferry and visit the island of Vlieland or Terschelling.
From Wikivoyage: Harlingen (Netherlands), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Harlingen
Harlingen is 41 km from Heroica Matamoros, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.