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Climb Every Mountain »
Whether you want to ride a horse, bomb down a mountain-bike trail, hike up a hill, relax in a hot springs, scale the face of a giant granite boulder, or just sit on your tailgate and look at a pretty sunset, there’s a lot to do on and around the peaks of West Texas. So strap on your pack and go!
October 2009 by Charlie Llewellin
Nature Trip »
Whatever I do in them, Texas mountains have a way of clearing my mind.
October 2009 by Charlie Llewellin
Dove Hunting »
How to dove hunt.
September 2009 by Andrea Valdez
The Manual 2.0
The experts from the Dallas Gun Club and World Wide Blast and Cast teach Andrea Valdez how to hunt dove.
September 2009
Springs Eternal »
Grab your towel, your sunscreen, and go! Presenting our 25 favorite swimming holes: Barton Springs, Blue Hole, Balmorhea, and other iconic places to lower your core temperature. At least for a couple of hours.
August 2008 by Charlie Llewellin
So Lawn, Farewell »
Lawn of a new day.
June 2008 by Jim Atkinson
The Old Man and the River »
Fifty years after the mythical trip on the Brazos that was the basis for John Graves’s classic book, I followed in his wake. Literally.
November 2007 by S. C. Gwynne
Shore ’Nuff »
The best beaches in Texas for—among other summertime pursuits—shelling, strolling, birding, fishing, treasure hunting, turtle herding, solitude, and surfing, dude.
June 2007 by Suzy Banks
Take a Hike »
Travel by foot along these thirty carefully chosen routes—from the South Rim in Big Bend to Lost Maples near Vanderpool—and you’ll take in the sights, sounds, and smells of Texas in ways you never thought possible. Lace up your boots and go.
October 2006 by Charlie Llewellin
Water, Water Everywhere »
From kayaking on Town Lake to mountain biking around Joe Pool Lake, from bass fishing on Lake Fork to horseback riding on the shores of Lake Whitney, here are some of our favorite things to do in, on, and around Texas lakes.
June 2006 by Jordan Breal, David Courtney, S. C. Gwynne, Michael Hall, Skip Hollandsworth, Charlie Llewellin, Patricia Busa McConnico, Katharyn Rodemann, John Spong and Brian D. Sweany
Wings »
At the Houston Museum of Natural Science, butterflies are free (sort of).
May 2006 by Patricia Sharpe
75 Things We Love About Texas »
Including: the sopa azteca at El Mirador, in San Antonio; the spring-fed pool at Balmorhea State Park; the humidity; elbow room; free advice at White Rock Lake, in Dallas; county courthouses; boots-and- jeans-clad Academy Award–winner Larry McMurtry; and—seriously— quail hunting.
April 2006
The Red Imported Fire Ant »
In the thirties, fire ants from Argentina entered our country with one goal: world domination. It's going well. I stumbled on a colony of them in a patch of grass behind a T.J. Maxx in Bastrop. Click here to read more about the red imported fire ant. I'm not sure what I did, but for some reason Tiffany and her sixty thousand sisters were ticked off.
January 2013 by Matthew Diffee
Pedal Pushers »
Contributing photographer Wyatt McSpadden, who shot this month’s feature “Tour de Texas,” describes how a plum assignment became a poignant father-son journey.
October 2005 Interview by Ryan Vogt
Tour de Texas »
These ten bike routes, some easy and some hard, will help you channel your inner Lance.
October 2005 by Charlie Llewellin
The Thrill Of the Hunt »
How I learned to stop worrying and love “blood sport”—or at least understand its appeal.
March 2005 by Gary Cartwright
A Texas Survival Kit »
What to do if you're bitten by fire ants, lost in the
wilderness, sprayed by a skunk, attacked by a shark,
stuck in a lightning storm, swept away by a riptide, or
caught in any of eleven other worst-case scenarios.
October 2004 by Anne Dingus
Cave Clan »
As Natural Bridge Caverns celebrates forty years since its
dedication, its patron family looks back on three
generations of cave life.
July 2004 by Lori Fradkin
Call of the Wild »
Seven images and captions—from the campsite to the view from the rim—show how executive editor S. C. "Sam" Gwynne spent seven days alone on the Solitario.
March 2004 Photographs and text by S. C. Gwynne
Happy Campers »
Suzy Banks, Stacy Hollister, and Charlie Llewellin discuss this month's cover story, "This Land Is Your Land."
March 2004
On the Fly »
Who needs Colorado when the Guadalupe River is so close—and so full of rainbow trout.
March 2004 by Stayton Bonner
Conversations With a Grasshopper »
To experience the majesty and peril of the desert on my own terms, I spent a week alone in the Solitario, the most remote area of Big Bend Ranch State Park. I confronted my darkest fears—and made small talk with an insect.
March 2004 by S. C. Gwynne
This Land is Your Land »
With more than 600,000 acres of state parks, historic sites, and natural areas, Texas can be a perfect playground for every type of outdoor adventurer—if you know where to go. We do.
March 2004 by Suzy Banks, Stacy Hollister and Charlie Llewellin
Arrested Development »
The flat-as-a-mouse-pad landscape bordering the Laguna Madre contains one of the greatest wildlife-viewing regions in North America—and that's not all.
February 2004 by Charlie Llewellin
Saving Cupid »
Every year, at least two hundred sea mammals get stranded on Texas beaches. This is the story of one of them, a 199-pound dolphin with a neurological disorder, a sardonic grin, and a willingness to swim with yours truly.
November 2003 by Gary Cartwright
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