Annual Shrimpfest
Starting date:
Event Details
Every year, on the last Monday in February, the Ellen Noël Art Museum hosts the winter season event for Odessa. Shimpfest - a Cajun-style, all-you-can-eat shrimpfeast - is a fundraiser to support the Museum. The evening includes succulent shrimp with all the fixings, a spectacular silent auction, a live auction, and toe-tapping music, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
General admission tickets are $40 each and can be purchased at the Museum during regular business hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, or online at www.noelartmuseum.org. Sponsor tables are available for $1,200, $3,000 or $5,000. These tables include admission to the sponsor-only cocktail reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. with delicious appetizers, elegantly-appointed tables and private waiters.
Annual Shrimpfest
Phone : 432-550-9696 (Always call and confirm events.)
Web: www.noelartmuseum.org
Additional Notes :
Culinary Events
Monahans Sandhills State Park Camping
Monahans Sandhills State Park offers 26 campsites with water; electricity, and shade shelters at $10 per night; campsites with water for tent campers; an equestrian day-use area, of approximately 600 acres, that has a staging area with hitching posts and water for horses; a group dining hall (constructed in 1903 first used as a railroad section house) with a kitchen and a restroom; an interpretive center with restrooms and a snack machine; a self-guided, 1/4-mile nature trail; and one working oil well. The Group Dining Hall is available for family reunions, birthday parties, etc. Also, there are picnic sites with shade shelters; a group picnic pavilion; a trailer dump station; and restrooms with showers (heated in the winter). Sand toboggans and disks can be rented at park headquarters.
Monahans Sandhills State Park Equestrian
Monahans Sandhills State Park has an 800-acre day-use equestrian area with no marked trails. A trailer parking area is provided and has a fenced corral where riders can tie and water their horses. Potable water is available in the area. The general terrain is heavy sand, with brush and a few mesquite trees. Visitors must provide their own horses.
Monahans Sandhills State Park Visitors Centers
The Dunagan Visitor Center at Monahans Sandhills State Park features hands-on exhibits of the cultural and natural history of the Sandhills, including Dune Dynamics, Permian Basin Heritage, and Wildlife Habitat. Scenic windows offer spectacular viewing of birds and other wildlife as they come to food and water. Park orientation is available. The Visitor/Interpretive Center is built to ADA specifications.