August 27, 2018 | By Michael Corcoran
There aren’t enough synonyms for “quaint” in describing Brenham, that rare landlocked town that feels like it should have a lighthouse. Arranged around an Art Deco courthouse which, built in 1939, is one of the newer buildings downtown, Brenham keeps history in its place.
June 27, 2018 | By Daniel Blue Tyx
Illustration by Chiari VercesiA stroll across the San Agustín Plaza, just a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande in downtown Laredo, feels like a passage across both space and time.
May 24, 2018 | By Melissa Gaskill
The Texas Gulf Coast, where the North American continent descends into the Gulf of Mexico’s salty waters, harbors a steamy mix of marshes, bays, beaches, and ocean. Over the years, scientific institutions and conservation groups gravitated to this rich environment to establish laboratories, preserves, rescues, and aquariums dedicated to studying and protecting its diversity of life. We know most travelers escape to the coast to while away time on the beach, but we also know that such experiences take on greater meaning with a little educational insight. Here we’ve put together a science-by-the-sea road trip—a syllabus for discovering the most scintillating of salty facts.
April 25, 2018 | By Michael Corcoran
That’s what attracted renowned Manhattan artist Donald Judd to Marfa in the ’70s. His large-scale installations, which meld sculpture and nature on an old Army base renamed The Chinati Foundation, made this far West Texas town a destination for the international art crowd. But in recent years, “The Capital of Quirkiness” (as CBS’ 60 Minutes dubbed it in 2013) has broadened its appeal to “bucket list” millennials and tourists who might think Donald Judd was Wynonna’s pop. A fascination for Hollywood in recent years, Marfa also enjoys frequent coverage in The New York Times—which ran at least eight stories with a Marfa dateline in the past two years (including four in the paper’s fashion supplement). All this attention has helped convert this tiny town with its own NPR station into the San Francisco of the Texas desert.
March 20, 2018 | By Clayton Maxwell
Way out at the western tip of Texas—more than 500 miles from any other major Texas city—percolates El Paso, the northern side of one of the world’s biggest border communities.
February 13, 2018 | By Amanda Ogle
For a small-town girl like me, big-city living can feel a bit stuffy. That’s why I call Weatherford home: It’s far enough away from the hustle and bustle of Dallas-Fort Worth to evoke that small-town feel, yet close enough for the occasional “big city” dinner.
January 12, 2018 | By Jennifer Babisak
I remember learning the thrill of the road trip as a child. Back then, my parents would load us up in the wee hours of the morning to trek hundreds of miles across Texas or to far-flung parts of the U.S.
December 14, 2017 | By Melissa Gaskill
When that road-trip itch needs scratching, I can always count on one friend to join me: my big mutt Max.
November 9, 2017 | By Cynthia J. Drake
Around this time of year (and only this time of year), I start to miss the snow.
October 15, 2017 | By Wes Ferguson
In Pittsburg, the hot links are plump, mermaids abound far from the sea, and a Baptist preacher invented a flying contraption that got off the ground a full year before the Wright Brothers made their famous first flight.
September 19, 2017 | By Daniel Blue Tyx
For many fellow Texans from “up north,” the Rio Grande Valley might be synonymous with birds, beaches, and grapefruit groves.
August 9, 2017 | By Paul McDonnold
With a waggle of his pen, U.S. President John Tyler signed a bill to bring Texas into the United States in 1845.
July 18, 2017 | By Michael Corcoran
Steve Simmons and his wife, Amy, the Austin ice cream queen, bought a ranch in the Smithville area 10 years ago to get away from the hustle.
June 14, 2017 | By Phil West
I experienced 10 of the most exciting minutes of soccer I’ve ever seen in my life—and I watch a lot of soccer—inside Frisco’s Toyota Stadium on a cool November night in 2015.
May 14, 2017 | By Clayton Maxwell
Wharton is the kind of town that invites you to relax on a wraparound porch with an old friend, sip an iced tea—or something stronger—and reveal some secrets.
April 18, 2017 | By Shelley Armitage
This trail is as old as the bison routes, I’m told, from back when the shaggy beasts once blackened the plains along the northern Llano Estacado.
March 20, 2017 | By Giles Lambertson
In the Hill Country northwest of Uvalde, rocky escarpments cut an irregular edge across the horizon.
February 23, 2017 | By June Naylor
Growing up less than an hour’s drive from Waxahachie, I’ve always been familiar with the historic town just south of Dallas.
January 12, 2017 | By MIchael Corcoran
It’s not a suburb, but a borough. Not an extension, but a separate township, at least spiritually.
December 16, 2016 | By Sofia Sokolove
As my friend and I pull into the parking lot of the newly renovated Dofflemyer Hotel in downtown San Saba, the first thing we notice is a weathered mural across the street from the parking lot on the whitewashed back wall of R.B.
November 13, 2016 | By E. Dan Klepper
During the holiday season, the fresh air and cheerful sunlit peaks of Fort Davis become all the more festive thanks to the town’s Frontier Christmas Festival.
October 14, 2016 | By Daniel Blue Tyx
When nature enthusiasts think of the Rio Grande Valley, they most often picture the glimmering resacas and moss-hung forests of destinations like the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge.
September 16, 2016 | By Heather Brand
Houston’s history as a theater town dates to the early years after the Texas Revolution. By 1838, even before the first church had been built, the city already had two competing theater companies.
August 1, 2016 | By Melissa Gaskill
From my seat on the shaded patio at Woodshed Smokehouse, the view takes in a wall of leafy green trees and rippling water that glimmers in the sun.
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.
