Traveling 130 Miles Along the Northeast Texas Trail
Former train corridors pave the way for exploration and quietude through seven counties in this rural part of the state.
Articles by Wes Ferguson
Star Search: A Night Guide for Urban Texans
Where to find wide-open skies—or a big telescope—if you live in the big city or in the eastern half of the state.
Alone at the Top of Texas
With the state’s four highest peaks, Guadalupe Mountains National Park offers incredible vistas and rewarding trails, which you just might have mostly to yourself.
Saving the Cabinet Oak
Lyndon B. Johnson conducted the nation's affairs under the Cabinet Oak. But is the three-hundred-year-old tree a goner?
Gone Fishin’; Fishin’ Gone
A new documentary follows the lives of the 94 bayou folk, retirees, and reputed outlaws in the village of Uncertain.
Let the River Run
Wes Ferguson has paddled and walked all 87 miles of one of the Hill Country’s most prized waterways. In this exclusive excerpt from The Blanco River, he uncovers a few of its natural secrets.
Meet the Beetle
How long it will take the dreaded emerald ash borers to fully establish themselves in Texas? And how many native ash trees will they decimate?
