April 11, 2020 | By Matt Joyce
Ask fans of Big Bend National Park about their favorite qualities of the rugged West Texas expanse, and you’ll get a common answer: the untainted desert mountain scenery.
March 25, 2020 | By Emily Roberts Stone
Dear readers,
Normally this time of year is a busy one for travel throughout the state—families make a beeline for their favorite stretch of coast for spring break, roadtrippers plot out the best routes to take in the bounty of seasonal wildflowers, and adventurers head out to West Texas to hike in the Big Bend.
March 2, 2020 | By E. Ryan Ellis
The Alamo Bootleg, a concept album slated for July release, features country singers Charley Pride and Robert Ellis excavating Alamo stories new and old.
February 16, 2020 | By Michael Corcoran
The City of Fort Worth has bestowed upon St. Louis Avenue the honorary name T Bone Burnett Boulevard, after the iconic music producer behind the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?
November 7, 2019 | By Julia Jones
In October, Texas Highways earned more than 20 awards from two prominent publishing industry institutions.
October 8, 2019 | By Julia Jones
Chip and Joanna Gaines are planning to build on their Waco empire with a new historic hotel.
May 9, 2019 | By John Lumpkin
Breaking news from Texas Peach Country: This year’s harvest is poised to be plentiful.
“Oh yeah, there are lots of peaches out there—a lot more than I thought there would be,” says Gary Hutton of Hutton Farms west of Weatherford, referring to the hard freeze that occurred in early March of this year. “They pulled through.” he says. “I’ve got some as big as my thumb.”
March 21, 2019 | By Becca Nelson Sankey
San Angelo is ready to reclaim its title as the oasis of West Texas. Following a banner rainfall of 34 inches in 2018, the in or near the city have risen to levels not seen since the 1990s.
February 7, 2019 | By TH Staff
The Texas Institute of Letters has spent the past eight decades recognizing the state’s literary achievements. Lone Star pride hit fever pitch in 1936. Amid statewide celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Texas Revolution, statues, monuments, and commemorative museums were going up everywhere from Huntsville to Alpine and Corpus Christi to Lubbock.
January 22, 2019 | By TH Staff
We wouldn’t exactly call Fort Worth “underappreciated.” With its cowboy culture and world-class museums, hotels, and other urban attractions, the state’s fifth-largest city has long been a top destination for Texans looking to cut loose (See 20 Things to Do: Fort Worth).
January 17, 2019 | By TH Staff
Long before the tiny home craze, Texas was home to an abundance of tiny jails. A night in the slammer was never meant to be a lot of fun—but you really didn’t want to find yourself in a Lone Star lockup more than a century ago, as evidenced by the new book The Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails by Bryan-based archeologist William E. Moore.
December 19, 2018 | By Kimya Kavehkar
Dust off your favorite pair of cowboy boots because the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo is back Feb. 7-24. The event, which was established in 1949 and brings 2 million visitors to the AT&T Center every year, has released a live music lineup packed with country music stars and other national entertainers.
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Enter the True Texas Travel Experience category, sponsored by Texas Highways magazine, as part of the 12th Annual Thin Line Fest. Thin Line, Texas’ international documentary film festival, is held in Denton from April 10-14, 2019.
So grab your camera (a cell phone will do) and produce a Texas travel-themed video (up to 5 minutes). Keep your eye on the True Texas prize. The winning entry, as well as a selection of finalists, will be screened at Thin Line, and also will be featured here on texashighways.com.
Published monthly 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.
