Memorial Drive is an arterial road in the western half of Houston, Texas, United States.

[2] In the 1940s and early 1950s, Memorial Drive was originally intended to be one of ten freeway spokes extending outward from Downtown Houston.

[3] Despite the explosive population growth in the Houston area in recent decades, the heaviest traffic on Memorial Drive was in the early 1960s.

[5] Houston City Council member Pam Holm announced in May 2007 that a large portion, roughly one fourth of the Memorial's length, will be expanded and beautified.

[13] The Memorial Villages are upscale neighborhoods, populated mainly by corporate executives, and feature some of the more expensive homes in the Houston area.

The western end of Memorial Drive is at Highway 6, at the edge of a large earthen dam on Barker Reservoir,[14][15] next to George Bush Park.