CECON 2025 will be held at the Newly Renovated Embassy Suites by Hilton San Marcos Hotel Conference Center. As the event venue, the ASCE Texas Section has worked hard to negotiate a special room reservation rate* for our participants.
Embassy Suites by Hilton San Marcos Hotel Conference Center
1001 E McCarty Ln, San Marcos, TX 78666 Google Map
42 miles from Austin- Bergstrom International Airport and 40 miles from San Antonio International Airport
*Discounted group rate not guaranteed. Subject to availability.
Things to do in San Marcos:
San Marcos Downtown Square
Among our treasures, locally-owned shops and restaurants, bistros, and nightspots adorn every corner of historic downtown San Marcos, fueling America’s favorite vacation pastimes – shopping and eating! Bring along your appetite and savor our rich, local flavor, gourmet Texas Fusion, ethnic flair, plus a wide array of traditional favorites. You’ll love our charming neighborhood cafés, our college “hang-outs,” and local favorites. Some great places for breakfast include Cafe on the Square, Babe's Doughnut & Coffee, and Blue Dahlia Bistro.
San Marcos Premium Outlet
The San Marcos Outlet Malls are two distinct outlet malls, the Premium Outlets and the Tanger Factory Outlet Center, located off Interstate Highway 35 in San Marcos, Texas, United States. The outlet mall first opened in 1977. Combined, the two adjacent malls have more than 240 stores
The Meadows Center
Head over to The Meadows Center for a very cool, and quintessential, San Marcos experience – the Glass-Bottom Boat Tour. The 30-minute tour of Spring Lake allows you to see the very bottom of the lake through a glass panel on the boat. You’ll see lots of flora and fauna, as well as the springs that give the lake its name. Your guides are full of facts and trivia about the history of the area and many creatures that call Spring Lake and the San Marcos River home.
Commemorative Air Force
The Central Texas Wing Museum houses seven CAF aircraft for which the Wing has maintenance and restoration responsibility: a very-rare flying Bell P-39Q Airacobra Miss Connie, the NAA B-25J Yellow Rose, a Vultee BT-13 Valiant, and a Cessna U-3A Administrator, Beech C-45 Expeditor Lone Star Lady, the NAA AT-6 Texan, and the Douglas Sktrain C-47 That's All Brother.
The Wittliff Collections
The Wittliff is a nationally renowned research center, archive, and museum at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. The Wittliff Collections collect, preserve, and present the cultural heritage of Texas, the Southwest & Mexico through works of the region’s storytellers—writers, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, and other artists—to educate, engage, and inspire.
Cheatham Street Warehouse
Venerable honky-tonk featuring live country, soul, folk & blues bands, plus a recording studio.
A Note of Caution: As the date of this event draws closer, exhibitors and attendees may be subjected to improper solicitation from third-party housing agencies. If you are contacted by anyone asking if you “need a room for CECON or ASCE Texas’ annual conference” or represent themselves as the “CECON or ASCE Texas Housing Bureau,” please get as much information as you can – such as name of the company, the person calling, and their telephone number—and immediately email these details to office@texasce.org.
Poachers typically offer room reservations at a significantly lower quality. In other circumstances, cancellation policies are often harsh and unforgiving. DO NOT make any reservations through unknown companies. Most importantly, do not provide them with your personal information, especially your credit card number. These rogue companies (commonly referred to as “pirates” or “bandits”) may charge your credit card for services not rendered. For these reasons, and to support our efforts to give you a quality event, we encourage you to book your housing accommodations using the links provided by ASCE Texas Section on this website.
