Galveston, Texas DPS Driving Test Routes

Practice your Galveston driving test route

Real routes used for the Galveston Texas DPS driver license office at 6812 Broadway St, delivered as a Google Maps GPS navigation file with turn-by-turn instructions included. No app, no account, no subscription.

Galveston DPS driver license office details

Location: 6812 Broadway St, Galveston, TX 77554
Phone: (409) 740-0031
Hours: Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed for lunch, noon to 1 p.m. By appointment only.
Map: View on Google Maps
Street view: Preview the location on Google Street View

Other DPS driver license offices near Galveston

If your appointment ends up at a different nearby office, here's how far each one actually is to drive from this location:

• Baytown DPS driver license office: 41.11 miles, about 51 minutes
• Angleton DPS driver license office: 46.08 miles, about 66 minutes
• Houston (East Freeway) DPS driver license office: 47.72 miles, about 53 minutes

This driving test route runs 6.34 miles and takes about 24 minutes:

1. Drive southeast, 0.01 miles.
2. Make a sharp right onto Broadway Street, 0.22 miles.
3. Turn left onto 71st Street, 0.06 miles.
4. Bear left onto Broadway Street, 1.61 miles.
5. Turn left onto 51st Street, 0.14 miles.
6. Drive west on 51st Street, 0.14 miles.
7. Turn left onto Mary Moody Northern Boulevard - 53rd Street, 0.83 miles.
8. Turn right onto Avenue Q, 0.03 miles.
9. Drive west on Avenue Q, 0.04 miles.
10. Turn right onto 54th Street, 0.12 miles.
11. Turn right onto Bernardo De Galvez Avenue, 0.65 miles.
12. Turn left onto 45th Street, 0.03 miles.
13. Drive north on 45th Street, 0.55 miles.
14. Turn left onto Broadway - Avenue J/TX 87, 1.10 miles.
15. Keep right to stay on Broadway - Avenue J toward Moody Gardens/Scholes International Airport/West Beach/Schlitterbahn Galveston Island, 0.16 miles.
16. Bear right onto Broadway Avenue, 0.60 miles.
17. Turn right, 0.04 miles.
18. Turn right, 0.01 miles.
19. Your destination is on the right.

This is a sample route only. The full, current set of Galveston driving test routes is included in the download.

Route breakdown

• Distance: 6.34 miles
• Duration: about 24 minutes
• Turns: 13 total, 5 left and 5 right, plus a bear left and 2 bear right
• Longest stretch: Broadway Street, 1.83 miles

What to expect on the roads this route covers

Broadway Street dominates this driving test route at 1.83 miles, close to 30% of the entire route, right at the office's own address.

Tips for this specific route

• Get comfortable holding speed on Broadway Street. It carries close to 30% of this route's total distance, right at the test-start point.
• This route has an even turn split with 5 lefts and 5 rights, worth practicing both directions equally.
• This is one of the shorter routes in this catalog at 6.34 miles, but still carries 13 turns, so pace yourself through them.