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May 2025

On the Cover

Alternative Ways to Travel the State

Electric vehicles, trains, bikes, and public charter flights are just a few ways to navigate Texas differently this year

April 28, 2025

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Feature

Traveling Through Texas’ Past Aboard a Vintage Train

By Dina Gachman
May 12, 2025
A man stands next to a truck where numerous pigeons are released into a grassy field

Feature

Inside Texas’ Competitive Pigeon Races

By Matt Joyce
May 5, 2025

Feature

Five Classic Bike Rides Through Texas

By Matt Joyce
April 28, 2025
A person leans down to connect a charger to a white electric vehicle in a desert landscape at the base of a small mountain

Feature

What I Learned Driving an EV to Far West Texas

By Tyson Bird
April 28, 2025
A silver Amtrak train drives through an autumn landscape under blue sky

Feature

Three Train Routes to Discover Texas Anew

By Rebecca Deurlein
April 28, 2025
A group of people walk toward a small red and white jet on a tarmac

Feature

Travel Texas By Jet

By Rebecca Deurlein
April 28, 2025

Like a Local

Grapevine’s Resident Captain Wants to Show You the Ropes

By Mary Pauline Lowry
May 22, 2025

Fuel

Houston’s El Bolillo Bakery Is the Buc-ee’s of Panaderías

By Antonio Ruiz-Camacho
May 21, 2025
A red tram car hangs from a dark wire, El Paso is visible below in a wide valley expanse

Vintage

Remembering the Franklin Mountains Tramway

By Asher Elbein
May 20, 2025
A person rides a green motorcycle down an asphalt straightaway

Dispatch

A Biker Finds Bliss on Park Road 4

By Bobby Alemán
May 19, 2025
A man in a t-shirt sits next to a pit smoker where fire is visible. The scene is an outdoor setting at dusk.

Culture

Grill and Chill at Austin’s Hot Luck Fest

By Laura Mallonee
May 15, 2025
A group of people gather underneath a large silver blimp reading 'Goodyear'

Atlas

How Texas Helium Powered a Century of Flight

By Kathryn Jones
May 14, 2025
A black and white photograph of people walking on tarmac between two old airplanes

Texana

When Trans-Texas Airways Soared State Skies

By Ian Dille
May 13, 2025

Speaking of Texas

Author Katherine Center on the Importance of Love Stories

By Erin Quinn-Kong
May 8, 2025
Cars park on a road that ends and leads into sand dunes with an ocean in the background

Hidden Gem

Where the Highway Ends

By Danielle Lopez
May 7, 2025

Fuel

Mercado Sin Nombre’s New Approach to Corn

By Brandon Watson
May 7, 2025
A brown and white spotted longhorn cow with large tan horns in a pasture

Getaway

There’s Music in the Air in Albany

By Matt Adams
May 6, 2025
The exterior of a tall brick hotel under a cloudy dusky sky

Stay

All Aboard Texas’ Historic Railroad Hotels

By Jan Adamson
May 2, 2025

Open Road

An Agoraphobic Traveler Embraces Change in Big Bend

By James Wade
April 30, 2025
A person's hands on the wheel of an electric vehicle with the rocky Chisos Mountains visible through the windshield

Editor's Note

Travel Differently

By Emily Roberts Stone
April 28, 2025

May 2025

The May 2025 cover of Texas Highways, "Travel Differently"
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