How to Attract the Charming Hummingbird Moth to Your Yard
Hint: Leave those leaves alone!
Hint: Leave those leaves alone!
Stroll through a sea of bluebonnets at Muleshoe Bend, stargaze from a luxurious safari tent at Shaffer Bend, or kayak in Matagorda Bay.
A Port Aransas festival celebrates North America’s tallest bird.
How high-end camping turned into a statewide phenomenon.
Check out these five-star spots under the stars.
Donny Crain teaches classes at Sea Rim State Park, sharing his love of Gulf Coast fishing with anyone who crosses his path.
PJ Izaguirre is a race director for Tejas Trails. The routes are long; the preparation is grueling. And you'll never meet someone with more positive vibes.
The phantom feline of South Texas is ready for its comeback.
Up on the roof of the old Barbara Jordan Post Office, the five-acre Post Skylawn offers an outdoor respite that’s literally above it all.
A visit to the long-running outdoor stage production reveals how members of the cast and crew are connected to the show in personal ways.
Nearly everything my teenage son wanted to do during our beach vacation required a waiver.
Before Palo Pinto Mountains State Park opens its doors the public, Billy Hassell, whose career is intertwined with wildlife conservation, got a sneak peek—sketchbook and watercolors in hand.
Hikers at this San Antonio preserve peer down at 110-million-year-old footprints.
“Texas has no cultural tradition of trolls,” wrote one.
No longer a niche subculture, climbing has attracted converts across the state. Senior editor Forrest Wilder explores the sport—from El Paso’s Hueco Tanks to the cliffs over Lake Marble Falls—and tries to tackle his own white whale.
Seven great spots to seek those natural highs.
This too-long, venomous creature can be found all over the state. Check your beds!
Melissa Chadwick is the keeper of Mother Neff State Park—a park that started as a family retreat and became the foundation for the state’s hundred-year-old parks system.
Plants covered, pets inside, pipes wrapped, and faucets dripping. A calm and confident attitude? Harder won.
The Texas star—our official state mushroom—puts on a show every winter.
Folklore holds that our state native shrub, also called the barometer bush, can predict rain. The truth is a little more complex.
This tropical beauty is expanding its range beyond the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
At Station Mountain Bike Park, Rhett Jones created the serpentine trails and daring jumps of his dreams.
San Antonio’s Leon and Leticia McNeil have introduced generations of Black and Latino youth to the outdoors through their nonprofit, City Kids Adventures.
The diminutive swamp dragon of the Piney Woods has a fascinating life cycle. Just don’t eat one.
Call them the astronauts of the underground. The state’s cavers are a literal subculture, daring to go where no one has gone before.
Where to immerse yourself in the subculture.
Whatever you do, don’t forget the special snacks.
Skip the traffic and exorbitant hotel rates—go camping at one of the 31 parks in the path of totality. Overnight reservations open on November 7.
The compilation cover album Texas Wild, which includes pairings such as Adrian Quesada and Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name,” was curated by a mad Texan genius.
Step aside, Buc-ee’s and Blue Bell. Where’s the love for horny toads, swallowtails, and passion vine?
Found along Texas’s southwestern border, the creature has a mug only a mother could love.
The Texas-based kayaking team completed the 1,600-mile journey over 83 grueling days.
Austinites gathered poolside to celebrate a sick pecan tree’s hundred-plus years of shading swimmers.
No, Texans’ favorite agave doesn’t live for a century. But it is a botanical marvel.
Six hikers died from heat-related causes in Texas state and national parks this summer. Should trail closures on the hottest days be standard?
Anonymous landowners donated the pristine 1,200-acre parcel, which will be open to the public on September 23.
The 25-year-old “boys” have taken it upon themselves to score each jump off the diving board, Olympics-style. Austin poolgoers have embraced the challenge.
Photographer Keith Carter explores the otherworldly wetlands of East Texas in a stunning new book.
The explosion of color found at the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute is not a mirage.
Paddle on a sea kayak in Rockport, party with Kinky Friedman in Kerrville, or find a quiet spot close to home.
H-E-B’s snazzy new nature docuseries highlights the conservationists who protect bats, bears, ocelots, and redfish.
The small city of Sherman, which lies far from the coast, is a fossil hunter’s paradise.
Gardening brings us together, even as culture wars divide us over almost everything else.
Human waste on Texas coastlines is a beach.
In the half-century since a troop of Japanese macaques arrived in Texas, a truly wild tale has played out.
Austin's signature green space is at the center of a long-running debate over how much the city should cling to its past as it prepares for the future.
Thank goodness for sunflowers.
Twelve years after the last known Quercus tardifolia disappeared, conservationists at the San Antonio Botanical Garden are bringing the species back.
The conservation victory at Honey Creek relied on “the goodness of those people’s hearts,” says one environmentalist.