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June 20, 2016 | By John Lumpkin
Horse racing was “the NFL of colonial times,” we’re told at the start of our visit to the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum in Amarillo, therein commencing the story of a horse breed that’s intertwined with Texas history and culture.
May 11, 2016 | By Heather Brand
As visitors approach Space Center Houston, the space-themed museum located adjacent to NASA Johnson Space Center, a massive new exhibit looms into view—a replica of a full-size space shuttle mounted atop the original shuttle carrier aircraft.
April 15, 2016 | By Cathryn A. Hoyt
A meteor streaks across the pre-dawn sky, its long tail sparkling. Perhaps Chicken Little is right.
March 21, 2016 | By Helen Anders
The cotton boll in my hand feels light and delicate, and I easily see how it could translate into the soft, comfy shirt I’m wearing.
February 11, 2016 | By John Lumpkin
Early travelers on the wagon road that later became US 287 must have thought it was a mirage—a gabled Victorian manse with a covered porch on a West Texas plain.
December 15, 2015 | By Helen Anders
A guitar-brandishing fiberglass jalapeño beckons from the sidewalk in downtown Irving. Walk a few paces more and you’ll find a keyboard painted on the walkway, and beyond that, a glass door etched with the names of famous songs, from “Tumblin’ Tumbleweed” to “Wooly Bully” and “I Want to Take You Higher.”
October 13, 2015 | By Claudia Alarcón
Not long ago, the tiny town of Hye was merely a curiosity for travelers between Johnson City and Fredericksburg on US 290.
July 16, 2015 | By Russell A. Graves
Just two miles from Seymour, a handful of paleontologists and volunteers meticulously scrape and brush flecks of red and gray dirt away from their latest discovery: a fossilized Dimetrodon that they’ve named Mary.
June 15, 2015 | By Celestina Blok
“Welcome to Lindale,” announces the vinyl billboard with a picture of a platinum blonde holding a guitar.
April 12, 2015 | By Rachel Monroe
It’s not likely that many people stumble on Wink. the tiny Permian Basin town (population 940) is indeed “the middle of nowhere, 500 miles from everywhere,” as Roy Orbison, Wink’s most famous son, once said.
March 17, 2015 | By Gene Fowler
As I watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin plant the American flag on the moon in the summer of 1969, I had no idea that Aldrin was also laying ceremonial claim to the mysterious orb on behalf of an enigmatic group of my fellow Texans.
February 16, 2015 | By Celestina Blok
Twelve years ago, my suburbanite parents got a wild hair and bought five acres of rugged terrain in Bluff Dale, a stoplight-free, unincorporated community 58 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
January 16, 2015 | By Eric W. Pohl
If you’ve ever driven across the Sidney Sherman Bridge in East Houston, you’ve likely taken notice of the incredible sweeping views of the Houston Ship Channel.
December 12, 2014 | By Gene Fowler
It’s hard to imagine two people in the whole state who have more fun in their work than Julie and Bruce Lee Webb of Waxahachie.
Published 10 times per year by the Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages travel to and within the Lone Star State and tells the Texas story to readers around the world.
