Hiking + Biking

Wimberley Zipline Adventures

Throughout the town’s center, shops and cafés are thriving. Beyond the boots and the town’s emerging art ... Read More »

Creekhaven Inn

Creekhaven Inn’s shaded location beside Cypress Creek was almost its undoing in October 2015, when the creek’s ... Read More »

The Blair House Inn

The Blair House’s current owners, Chris and Lois Mahoney, honor the legacy of original owner Jonnie Stansbury, ... Read More »

Lockhart Bistro

Lockhart Bistro fills a capacious space that once housed a popular department store. “This used to be the ... Read More »

Chisholm Trail Bar-B-Que

Chisholm Trail Bar-B-Que is the barbecue baby of Lockhart, as it has only been around since 1978. The owner ... Read More »

Black’s Barbecue

Open since 1932, this smokehouse claims to be the state’s oldest barbecue joint owned by the same family. The ... Read More »

Kreuz Market and Smitty’s Market

US 183, a route from Austin to the coast, goes right through the barbecue-rich town of Lockhart, which was ... Read More »

Walker Manor Bed and Breakfast

In the town of Gladewater about 30 minutes east of Tyler, a stately mansion from the turn of the 20th century ... Read More »

Tyler State Park

Unlike quiet Mission Tejas, Tyler State Park—a retreat also created by the CCC—bustles year-round, especially ... Read More »

Shopping in Tyler

Neighboring El Guapo Records (257 S. Broadway Ave.) serves as a window to the past, with equal doses of nostalgia ... Read More »

ETX Brewing Co.

The happening new downtown area called Off the Square stays busy with the likes of ETX Brewing Co. (221 S. ... Read More »

Roast Social Kitchen

In the Midtown Corridor, close to the reinvigorating downtown, Roast Social Kitchen (1125 E. 5th St.) comes ... Read More »

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