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Weekend Getaways from El Paso: Van Horn and Sanderson

Weekend Getaways from El Paso: Van Horn and Sanderson

For the Adventurer Van Horn Miles from El Paso: 121 Photos by Christ Chavez In recent years, the frontier-like ... Read More »

Weekend Getaways from Dallas: Weatherford and Coleman

Weekend Getaways from Dallas: Weatherford and Coleman

For the Outdoorsy Family weatherford Miles from Dallas: 60 Photos by Sean Fitzgerald Named by the state ... Read More »

Meet Comfort Tysen, the Texas State Capitol’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide

Meet Comfort Tysen, the Texas State Capitol’s Longest-Serving Tour Guide

When Comfort Tysen gives a tour, she puts her whole body into the job. On some days, the longest-serving guide ... Read More »

A Hotel Haunted by a Ghost Cat and Other Spooky Tales in New Braunfels

A Hotel Haunted by a Ghost Cat and Other Spooky Tales in New Braunfels

Just as we were leaving the restaurant on the outskirts of New Braunfels, we saw a black sky turn purple and ... Read More »

The Houston Zoo’s New Galápagos Islands Exhibit Enchants and Educates

The Houston Zoo’s New Galápagos Islands Exhibit Enchants and Educates

In 2018, the Houston Zoo announced an ambitious capital campaign to revitalize the sought-after Texas ... Read More »

How Texans Reconnect Children With the State’s Natural Wonders

How Texans Reconnect Children With the State’s Natural Wonders

Texas offers a wealth of opportunities for kids to put down their screens and dial in to nature Read More »

Go (Almost) Under the Sea at the Patton Center of Marine Science Education in Port Aransas

Go (Almost) Under the Sea at the Patton Center of Marine Science Education in Port Aransas

Inside a sofa-size aquarium, a black-and-white striped sheepshead and a small school of shiny Gulf menhaden ... Read More »

Your 2023 Texas Travel Bucket List

Your 2023 Texas Travel Bucket List

January Write your name on the desk at Hancock Hill in Alpine Long before virtual school became commonplace, ... Read More »

Formula One and NASCAR Can Eat Dirt Track Racing’s Dust

Formula One and NASCAR Can Eat Dirt Track Racing’s Dust

Dozens of high-horsepower cars wrapped in vinyl sponsorship stickers of eye-popping colors circle the track in a ... Read More »

Get a Taste of the Cowboy Life at a Texas Dude Ranch

Get a Taste of the Cowboy Life at a Texas Dude Ranch

on a blazing summer day and time to put the horses away. Tami Martin, one of the wranglers at the Dixie Dude Ranch ... Read More »

Cemetery Strolls Offer an Opportunity to Meditate on Life’s Big Questions

Cemetery Strolls Offer an Opportunity to Meditate on Life’s Big Questions

Parallel tire-width trenches in the earth made unmistakable scars across the otherwise unmolested grass. The marks ... Read More »

How One Houston Family Visited All 89 Texas State Parks—And More

How One Houston Family Visited All 89 Texas State Parks—And More

For Mother’s Day in 2016, Sarah Strauss asked her family to do something different: go on a hike at Huntsville ... Read More »

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