{"id":184646,"date":"2026-02-19T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184646\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:46:08","slug":"galvestons-hershey-beach-transformed-after-months-long-closure-for-restoration-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/184646\/","title":{"rendered":"Galveston&#8217;s Hershey Beach transformed after months-long closure for restoration project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials said the project was designed to protect the island from future storms and reopen a popular beach.<\/p>\n<p>GALVESTON, Texas \u2014 Just in time for spring break, the Texas General Land Office says one of Galveston&#8217;s beaches has gotten a massive upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,300 feet of shore at Hershey Beach has been restored on the island&#8217;s West End.<\/p>\n<p>The beach has been closed for months as crews pumped in nearly 378,000 cubic yards of sand to fight erosion. For context, that&#8217;s enough sand to fill NRG Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the project was designed to protect the island from future storms and reopen a popular beach.<\/p>\n<p>Got a news tip or story idea? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.khou.com\/article\/news\/local\/galveston-hershey-beach-restoration-project\/mailto:newstips@khou.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newstips@khou.com<\/a>\u00a0or call 713-521-4310 and include your name and the best way to reach you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials said the project was designed to protect the island from future storms and reopen a popular beach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-184646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}