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My Favorite Texas Trip

My Favorite Texas Trip

In this collection, Texas Highways editors, contributors, and readers share the excursions around the Lone Star State that made the most impact on them.

Readers’ Favorite Texas Trip: Achieving A Peak Sunset in Far West Texas

Readers’ Favorite Texas Trip: Achieving A Peak Sunset in Far West Texas

I was born and raised in Texas, and my favorite trip in the state was to Guadalupe Mountains National Park in November 2016.

Go Behind the Scenes at the Equine Mecca of Texas

Go Behind the Scenes at the Equine Mecca of Texas

You don’t have to be the moneyed owner of an expensive Western-performance or hunter-jumper horse to see such magnificent animals in this exclusive setting. Some of the premier horse farms and ranches of North Texas grant inside access to their facilities and their resident four-legged celebrities. Six behind-the-scenes public bus tours are offered each year—three in the spring and three in the fall—as well as private group tours by appointment. Winding through countryside once devoted to peanut farms, each six-hour bus tour stops for visits at two of the more than 350 horse farms that collectively stable roughly 40,000 animals.

Editor’s Note: Exploring Texas’ Cultural Crossroads

Editor’s Note: Exploring Texas’ Cultural Crossroads

Texas has always served as a cultural crossroads. Before it was the longest stretch of the United States’ southern border with Mexico, it was a boundary between Spain and French Louisiana. Long before that, it was home to a number of diverse indigenous tribes. Our name, even, derives from a Spanish interpretation of a Caddo greeting meaning “friend.” And the value of the state’s most prolific commodities—cattle, cotton, and oil—has been dependent on links to the world at large.

Texas’ Top Natural Wonders: Caddo Lake

Texas’ Top Natural Wonders: Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake
“I rented a kayak and paddled my way across the tea-colored water and green lawns of giant salvinia.

Fourth of July 2016

Fourth of July 2016

It’s time to strike up the band, dress in your finest red, white, and blue, and raise your flags high for some Texas-sized fun.

Texas Top 40 Travel Destinations

Texas Top 40 Travel Destinations

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Last fall, we asked Texas Highways readers to share their favorite places in the state for our Texas Top-40 Travel Destinations.

Trips to Bountiful 2010

Trips to Bountiful 2010

After an unusually cold, wet, and blustery winter, spring couldn’t come soon enough to Texas this year.

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