September 21, 2023 | By John Lumpkin
Port Arthur is known to some for petrochemicals, Gulf Coast hurricanes, and being the hometown of rock star Janis Joplin and Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson.
May 30, 2023 | By Jac Darsnek
The opulent Sabine Hotel in Port Arthur was nearing completion in 1897—note the scaffolding on the far left.
May 27, 2021 | By Chet Garner
There’s a part of Texas where the freshwater of the Sabine River mixes with the salt of the Gulf of Mexico.
January 16, 2021 | By Joe Nick Patoski
I am looking at a picture of the Rainbow Bridge—and it gives me the creeps. The bridge is too high, the road rises at too sharp an angle.
December 24, 2020 | By Joe Nick Patoski
May 31, 2019 | By Clayton Maxwell
From Port Arthur to Port Isabel, navigating the best of Texas’ bays, beaches, and bards
July 14, 2016 | By MIchael Corcoran
This summer marks 50 years since a 23-year-old from Port Arthur moved to San Francisco to become a pioneering female rock star.
December 12, 2014 | By Roger Wood
For a music fan like me, one particularly good reason to visit Port Arthur is the blues-rock singer Janis Joplin.
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.
