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December 16, 2016 | By Jan Adamson
Located between the angling hotspots of Lake Tawakoni and Lake Fork, the northeast Texas town of Emory is like a favorite secret fishing hole for fishermen, who stop by to fuel up on comfort food and stroll the quiet courthouse square.
December 16, 2016 | By Donna Marie Miller
What better way to escape the winter doldrums than to watch outrageously dressed athletes on roller-skates race around a track, shoving and hitting each other along the way?
October 14, 2016 | By Cynthia J. Drake
It’s 9 a.m. on a Saturday, and most of the farm chores have already been done.
October 14, 2016 | By Sophia Sokolove
My friend Callie and I had been hearing about Gorman Falls—the 70-foot waterfall that’s the centerpiece of Colorado Bend State Park—for the past few years.
October 14, 2016 | By Bill Tucker
Once a rural suburb 30 miles north of Dallas, Frisco is now a burgeoning mini-city of its own.
September 16, 2016 | By Cynthia J. Drake
When my family moved to Texas from Michigan in the summer of 2014, I was still reeling from the loss of my mother, gone suddenly from my life at age 64, just six months earlier.
May 11, 2016 | By Heather Brand
Galveston’s Ships Mechanic Row got its name back in the 19th Century when it was an artery of the island’s shipping industry, located just a few blocks from the wharf.
May 11, 2016 | By Michael Corcoran
In the 1960s at his Soho building in New York City, “minimalism” icon Donald Judd would take his phone off the hook and park his elevator on the second floor to avoid the agents, the media, and the young artists who saw him as a mentor.
May 11, 2016 | By Melissa Gaskill
A sleek, gray bottlenose dolphin briefly breaks the surface of the water in a smooth, rolling motion.
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.
May 11, 2016 | By Clayton Maxwell
I sat cross-legged in the sandy dirt at the foot of a blueberry bush at a pick-your-own farm called Blueberry Hill Farms in Edom.
May 11, 2016 | By Andrea Abel
I’m an occasional weekend paddler, launching a canoe or kayak about once a month with my trusty paddling partner and husband John.
December 15, 2015 | By Scott Jarrett
How can one explain the neon magnetism of Route 66? Before this summer, I could quote a few lines of the famous 1946 Bobby Troup lyric, but if pressed, I had trouble pinpointing on a map precisely where you could “get your kicks.”
December 15, 2015 | By Gene Fowler
Stylle Read took an interest in re-creating old-time Texas with colorful artwork while growing up in Lufkin in the 1950s.
October 13, 2015 | By Cheryl Van Tyl Jividen
My family’s love affair with the chewy and crunchy good taste of Collin Street Bakery’s DeLuxe Fruitcakes began years ago when we sent a cake by mail-order to my in-laws.
October 13, 2015 | By Melissa Gaskill
A little more than 25 miles from where my feet tramped, a line of cars waited to enter Lost Maples State Natural Area, whose namesake trees blazed with red, yellow, and orange glory. But I had Hill Country State Natural Area pretty much to myself, and while no maples grow here, this rugged retreat offers a respectable display of fall color.
October 13, 2015 | By Daniel Blue Tyx
Stepping into the brightly colored display area of the Melissa Guerra Latin Kitchen Market in San Antonio was like entering into the kitchen of a good friend, albeit one whose culinary expertise far exceeded that of my wife Laura and me.
July 16, 2015 | By Helen Anders
Pecans permeate the shady town of San Saba, emerging in pies, jams, and candies; infusing local coffee, beer, and steaks; forming a canopy over three lush parks; and providing a 1,200-trunk challenge to golfers plying the fairways of the San Saba River Golf Course.
July 16, 2015 | By Paul McDonnold
Something about the boxy shape of the building first catches the eye. It’s broader and taller than the 1960s-era Texarkana shopping center that surrounds it.
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.
May 13, 2015 | By Celestina Blok
On my last day of a weeklong stay in Port Aransas, I set off to find a souvenir to remind me of the island until my next visit.
May 13, 2015 | By Jill Lawless
An old, unlikely legend holds that Spanish sailors shipwrecked in Matagorda Bay saw a mirage of three sparkling palaces on a distant shoreline, and named the surrounding inlet Tres Palacios Bay.
May 13, 2015 | By Helen Anders
On a spring day, Lucinda Wierenga—better known on South Padre Island as “Sandy Feet”—puts the finishing touches on a multi-turreted sand castle in front of the Taco Factory restaurant, only to watch a storm immediately blow the top off.
May 13, 2015 | By Matt Joyce
Most people in the African-American rodeo scene are familiar with Pickett’s legacy in the sport, says Brian White, a bullfighter/rodeo clown from Midwest City, Oklahoma, who’s participating in the Cheek rodeo for the second time this summer. One of only a handful of African-American bullfighters in the country, White has worked for 20 years protecting bull riders after they get thrown.
February 17, 2015 | By Julie Stratton
I started collecting travel memories in the form of jewelry when I was about eight years old.
February 16, 2015 | By Melissa Gaskill
The river rounds a bend and six mossy-backed turtles sunning on a row of rocks drop into the water—plop, plop, plop, one after the other, as if in a water ballet.
February 16, 2015 | By Shermakaye Bass
It’s the smell that first grabs you when you enter the Collings Guitars Factory in southwest Austin—that heady intermingling of hand-milled spruce, mahogany, rosewood, maple, and other high-end tonewoods, layered with the pungently pleasing odor of varnish and lacquer.
December 12, 2014 | By Chet Garner
I’ve always considered myself a pretty brave guy. I’ve gone hang gliding, swum with stingrays, and even eaten face-melting ghost chiles.
August 1, 2014 | By Matt Joyce
Nevena Christi points to a label painted on a brick wall inside the El Paso workshop of Rocketbuster Handmade Custom Boots.
June 21, 2014 | By Jennifer Nalewicki
What do you do when the souvenir you want is illegal? That was the question I asked myself as I drove down a narrow, two-lane road to Luckenbach (pop.
June 18, 2014 | By Clayton Maxwell
In Cotulla, a formerly sleepy town roughly equidistant between San Antonio, Laredo, and Corpus Christi, the Texas Hat Museum represents a dignified calm amid the storm that is roiling South Texas—the oil-and-gas boom of the Eagle Ford Shale.
June 17, 2014 | By Anthony Head
A 1956 sky-blue-and-white Chevrolet Bel Air Sport Sedan cruises a couple of laps around a San Marcos parking lot, its chrome bumpers gleaming in the sunlight, before finding the perfect parking spot.
June 16, 2014 | By Jeffrey Wright
I feel a tug of skepticism as I test my tricycle legs at a storage facility just north of downtown San Antonio, preparing for this self-propelled tour.
May 21, 2014 | By Melissa Gaskill
A pleasant breeze rocked my kayak and rustled pale green and brown marsh grasses around me.
February 24, 2014 | By Diane Geiser
My husband and I fell in love with the Dallas Arboretum through years of snapping photos of our four kids tucked among tulips and propped on pumpkins.
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.
