cycling

Trek Travel Designs Hill Country Rides for Serious Bicyclists

February 28, 2023 | By Lori Rackl

Get in Gear for National Bike Month With These 5 Rides Around Texas

May 3, 2022 | By Ian Dille

I’ve ridden bikes and written about riding bikes all over the world, but there’s no place I prefer to pedal more than here in Texas.

Chihuahuan Desert Bike Fest

February 16, 2017 | By

Big Bend Ranch State Park and Lajitas provide some great mountain-biking opportunities, including the park’s Fresno-Sauceda Loop, which was designated an epic ride by the International Mountain Bicycling Association in 2010. With the level of rides available and the generally appealing February climate, it is no surprise that the area is the destination for a mountain biking festival each Presidents’ Day weekend.

Biking Big Bend

January 12, 2017 | By Matt Joyce

Chances are I won’t be hitchhiking out West any time soon to hire on with a ranch or join a sheriff’s posse. My boyhood fancies of a cowboy life on the open range, fueled by Lone Ranger reruns and imaginative bicycle escapades around the neighborhood, lost steam over time. But I’ve still got a Lone Ranger poster, and I’ve still got a mountain bike. And exploring the Texas countryside by bicycle still kindles my childlike excitement for adventure, freedom, and fun.

Northeast Explorer: Discovering a New Rail Trail From Blackland Prairie to Piney Woods

February 21, 2013 | By Lawrence Parent

AFTER RUNNING ACROSS A BRIEF STORY on a new rail-trail in northeast Texas, I had to investigate.

The October 2023 issue of Texas Highways "Tastes Like Home"

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