Fee:  Call for fees
Hours:  Call for business hours

Astronomy - Houston Astronomical Society
Attn: Society Information
P O Box 20332
Houston Texas 77225-0332
E-mail godberg@infohiwy.net
Website: http://spacibm.rice.edu/~has/

If you like to rise with the sun and sit with the stars, this club may be for you.  Members meet monthly at a site near Columbus. 

Fee:  Call for fees
Hours:  Call for meeting dates

Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
P.O. Box 519
Eagle Lake, Texas 77434
Telephone: 979.234.3021
Fax: 979.234.3278 http://southwest.fws.gov/refuges/texas/attwater/index.html
E-Mail:  FW2 RW AttwaterPrairieChicken@fws.gov

Located approximately 20 miles southeast of Columbus, the refuge is one of the largest remnants of coastal prairie habitat remaining in southeast Texas and is home to one of the last populations of the critically endangered Attwater's prairie- chicken, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem.

Fee:  No Charge
Hours:  Sunrise to Sunset  

Cowboy Action Shooting- Texas Historical Shootists Society
Gunsmoke, Texas, located 4 miles north of I-10 at Columbus, then 1 mile west on FM 71 
http://www.thss.org

The THSS works to preserve the history of the old west through the sport of Western Action Shooting, a multi-faceted shooting sport in which contestants compete with firearms typical of those used in the taming of the Old West: single action revolvers, pistol caliber lever action rifles, and old time shotguns.      

% Featured on The Outdoor Channel (2004) and The Eyes of Texas television programs

Fee:  Call for Fees
Hours:  Competitions held the 3rd Sunday of each month, late morning.  Annual Trailhead Festival held each spring.