On the Water

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, dropping a line below a deep-sea oil rig ... 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 floods, Hill Country communities are ... Read More »

The Great Texas Beach-Off

The Great Texas Beach-Off

The Great Texas Beach-Off Illustrations By DOUG JONES Roughly 60 beaches dot the ... 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, exposing a 180-degree view of Galveston ... Read More »

Chasing Rainbows on the Guadalupe River

Chasing Rainbows on the Guadalupe River

Trout fishing in America usually means wading in a swift-running river somewhere in the Rockies on a sunny summer ... Read More »

Can’t Hit the Road? These Texas Livestreams Have You Covered

Can’t Hit the Road? These Texas Livestreams Have You Covered

In a state as big as Texas, it was once impossible to see everything. Until the advent of livestreams. Several ... Read More »

Tracing a Raindrop Through Barton Springs

Tracing a Raindrop Through Barton Springs

Where the Raindrop Ends A BARTON SPRINGS DEVOTEE TRACES ITS WATER SOURCE ON A 12-MILE ... Read More »

Inside the Revitalized Historic Ottine Mineral Springs

Inside the Revitalized Historic Ottine Mineral Springs

I’m floating like a dumpling in one of the soaking pools at Ottine Mineral Springs, gazing up at the vine-covered ... Read More »

Reflecting on the Hill Country’s Rivers After the Floods

Reflecting on the Hill Country’s Rivers After the Floods

In the June issue of Texas Highways, I wrote about the Lower Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake as a vacation and ... Read More »

A Search for Serenity at Texas’ Storied Mineral Spas

A Search for Serenity at Texas’ Storied Mineral Spas

Healing Waters By Katie Gutierrez Photographs by Wynn Myers WorldSprings in The ... Read More »

A Summer Guide to the Guadalupe River

A Summer Guide to the Guadalupe River

By Joe Nick Patoski Photographs by Kenny Braun Illustrations by Debbie ... Read More »

Where the Highway Ends

Where the Highway Ends

There is a place where the highway ends and before the Gulf Coast waves, and there the dunes rise soft and white, ... Read More »

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