Hiking + Biking

The Texas Basketball Museum Keeps a Hoop Dream Alive in Carmine

The Texas Basketball Museum Keeps a Hoop Dream Alive in Carmine

A tasty kolache at Weikel’s Bakery. A porcelain flower vase at an antiques shop. Bluebonnets poking through ... Read More »

Wild Beauty

Wild Beauty

I know winter has left the Hill Country when golden patches of flowers appear seemingly overnight in my ... Read More »

The Wild Snakes of Texas

The Wild Snakes of Texas

Look at her. So poised. So regal. Watching her gracefully slither through my yard hunting for her next meal this ... Read More »

A Texas Panhandle Museum Explores the Wire that Tamed the American West

A Texas Panhandle Museum Explores the Wire that Tamed the American West

Pull into the Texas Panhandle town of McLean along old Route 66, walk past the two balls of rusty barbed ... Read More »

Recipe: Lavender Pecan Crisps

Recipe: Lavender Pecan Crisps

Visitors flock to Brenham, near Debbie and Jim McDowell’s farm, to take in the breathtaking sight of a sea of ... Read More »

Behind The Great Historic Hotel Revival in Texas

Behind The Great Historic Hotel Revival in Texas

The 15-story Hotel Settles, opened in 1930 during the milk and honey days of Big Spring’s oil industry, towers ... Read More »

Tillie’s is a Dining and Architectural Gem in the Hill Country

Tillie’s is a Dining and Architectural Gem in the Hill Country

Among the live oaks, scrub brush, and rocky hillsides of Dripping Springs sits an unexpected architectural gem. At ... Read More »

Take a Route 66 Detour at Spinning Jenny’s House of Music in Shamrock

Take a Route 66 Detour at Spinning Jenny’s House of Music in Shamrock

Jenny Morgan has lived all over Texas, from her college days at Angelo State University in San Angelo to stints in ... Read More »

Making Peace with the Spirit of My Father on a South Texas Ranch

Making Peace with the Spirit of My Father on a South Texas Ranch

Open Road  | March 2020 In the Valley of Mirrors A son returns to the border and makes peace with the spirit of ... Read More »

An Exhibition in San Antonio Captures Selena Before and After Fame

An Exhibition in San Antonio Captures Selena Before and After Fame

Más magazine contacted San Antonio commercial photographer John Dyer in 1992 to do a shoot with a rising young ... Read More »

Blooming Marigolds in Big Bend National Park

Blooming Marigolds in Big Bend National Park

Spring often arrives earlier in Big Bend National Park than in other parts of Texas. After winter rains, the ... Read More »

Texas State Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez Draws Inspiration from the Rio Grande Valley

Texas State Poet Laureate Emmy Pérez Draws Inspiration from the Rio Grande Valley

Emmy Pérez, the Texas State Poet Laureate for 2020, creates evocative word-paintings of life along the Rio ... Read More »

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