Nature + Outdoors

Pitch Your Tent on a Texas Beach

Pitch Your Tent on a Texas Beach

How To Texas is a recurring column offering step-by-step instructions on ... Read More »

Meet the Surfing Dogs of Port Aransas

Meet the Surfing Dogs of Port Aransas

Leah Bess Murray stands waist deep in Gulf water, stabilizing a 9-foot ... Read More »

Texas’ Oldest Fishing Tournament Turns 90

Texas’ Oldest Fishing Tournament Turns 90

In 1936, a fishing tournament debuted in a rugged coastal fish camp known ... Read More »

The Best New Digs in Fort Worth Are at Prairie Dog Town

The Best New Digs in Fort Worth Are at Prairie Dog Town

Across a shrubby plain in northwest Fort Worth, baby prairie dogs poke ... Read More »

The State of Hill Country Swimming Holes Amid a Wet Texas Summer

The State of Hill Country Swimming Holes Amid a Wet Texas Summer

In 2023, the spring that feeds Jacob’s Well stopped flowing. It hasn’t ... Read More »

The Disappearing Art of Deep-Sea Oil Rig Fishing

The Disappearing Art of Deep-Sea Oil Rig Fishing

The Disappearing Art of Deep-Sea Oil Rig Fishing For decades, ... Read More »

Summer Birding in Texas Rewards the Patient and the Brave

Summer Birding in Texas Rewards the Patient and the Brave

Texas Department of Transportation A TEXAN'S GUIDE TO ... Read More »

Returning to the Guadalupe River a Year After the Floods

Returning to the Guadalupe River a Year After the Floods

Return to the River Nearly a year after the devastating July 4 ... Read More »

The Great Texas Beach-Off

The Great Texas Beach-Off

The Great Texas Beach-Off Illustrations By DOUG ... Read More »

Experience Hill Country Cliffs on the Only Alpine Coaster in Texas

Experience Hill Country Cliffs on the Only Alpine Coaster in Texas

No two Texas campgrounds are the same, but only one can say it has an ... Read More »

Texas’ Big and Bright Stars By the Numbers

Texas’ Big and Bright Stars By the Numbers

STELLAR VIEWS Witnessing Texas’ starry sky is easier than you ... Read More »

The Expanding Effort to Protect the Endangered Houston Toad

The Expanding Effort to Protect the Endangered Houston Toad

The first time I laid eyes on a Houston toad it was creeping after a June ... Read More »

Searching for Meaning Through a Houston Skating Club

Searching for Meaning Through a Houston Skating Club

Every year around Labor Day, Houston’s unrelenting heat sends me into an ... Read More »

Cast Your Line on the Longest Fishing Pier on Earth

Cast Your Line on the Longest Fishing Pier on Earth

As we drive onto the Texas City Dike, the land falls away on both sides, ... Read More »

Stargazing on Mustang Island Has Galactic Appeal

Stargazing on Mustang Island Has Galactic Appeal

It’s a breezy January evening when I pull into the day use parking area at ... Read More »

What Bluebonnets Mean to Coahuiltecan Descendants

What Bluebonnets Mean to Coahuiltecan Descendants

Springtime in Texas is marked by deep shades of indigo peppering the ... Read More »

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