Travel & Outdoors
March 10, 2023
Comfort Is the Hill Country’s Best-kept Secret
The independent spirit that helped create this historic town can also be found in its new restaurants, bars, and stores.
Texas Trip Guides
Plan your next getaway with curated trip guides, complete with tips on what to see and do, where to eat, and where to stay on your next Texas vacation.
Travel & Outdoors
September 8, 2022
Tyler Comes Into Bloom as a Weekend Destination
Stop and smell its famous roses, yes—but this East Texas city offers more to enjoy, including a delightful dining scene.
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Travel & Outdoors
August 9, 2022
These Port Aransas Classics Keep Us Coming Back
Five years after Hurricane Harvey, the beloved beach town continues to recover and evolve. Here are some of our favorite spots.
Travel & Outdoors
July 13, 2022
Old West Meets New in Little Hico
The town, an easy back-roads drive from Austin or DFW, is both quiet and brimming with worthy new shops and eateries.
Travel & Outdoors
July 5, 2022
You Should Take a Soak in Marlin, the “Hot Mineral Water City of Texas”
Professional baseball teams once traveled here in search of healing waters
Texas Trip Guides
June 1, 2022
Wineries, Astronomy, and Caving Beckon in Burnet County
Our guide to this tranquil, often overlooked slice of the Hill Country.
Travel & Outdoors
May 13, 2022
Where to Stay, Eat, Shop, and More in San Angelo
A thriving arts scene, a surprising water lily garden, and historic landmarks make this Texas city a weekend-worthy destination.
Travel Guides
April 22, 2022
San Antonio City Guide
Your curated travel guide to San Antonio, featuring where to eat and drink, stay, explore, and more.
Travel Guides
April 22, 2022
Houston City Guide
Your curated travel guide to Houston, featuring where to eat and drink, stay, explore, and more.
Travel Guides
April 22, 2022
Dallas City Guide
Your curated travel guide to Dallas, featuring where to eat and drink, stay, explore, and more.
Travel & Outdoors
March 10, 2022
Where to Shop in Marfa
Here’s where to make a day of it in this creative West Texas enclave.
Texas Trip Guides
April 19, 2017
Trip Guide: El Paso
In our westernmost city, cultural boundaries are as fluid as the Rio Grande.
Travel & Outdoors
March 14, 2017
Trip Guide: Route 66
Just like Texas, Route 66 is a state of mind. Here’s where the mythologies intersect.
Travel & Outdoors
December 22, 2016
Trip Guide: Fort Worth’s Near Southside
When a Cowtown neighborhood makes room for a vegan ice cream parlor, you know something’s changed.
Texas Trip Guides
August 24, 2016
Trip Guide: Toledo Bend Reservoir
Piscatory pursuits on the largest man-made lake in the South.
Texas Trip Guides
June 22, 2016
Trip Guide: Alpine
No, it’s not Marfa. And that’s just fine.
Texas Trip Guides
April 20, 2016
Trip Guide: Wimberley
On the anniversary of last year’s flood, this Hill Country town is as beautiful as ever.
Travel & Outdoors
February 24, 2016
Trip Guide: San Antonio Missions
When the Alamo and the River Walk aren’t enough.
Travel & Outdoors
December 23, 2015
Trip Guide: Dallas Design District
When you need a break from Uptown glitz, a scruffier, scrappier neighborhood beckons.
Texas Trip Guides
October 22, 2015
Trip Guide: Abilene
While away a weekend in the heart of Big Country.
Texas Trip Guides
August 20, 2015
Trip Guide: Los Fresnos
What to see, drink, eat, and more.
Texas Trip Guides
June 24, 2015
Trip Guide: Canadian
A small town that has just enough of everything but not too much of anything, which makes it an ideal place to while away an unhurried weekend.
Texas Trip Guides
April 22, 2015
Trip Guide: Houston’s Museum District
Not only are there 18 museums within a 1.5-mile radius, but the magnificent 445-acre Hermann Park is now in full bloom.
Texas Trip Guides
January 21, 2015
Trip Guide: Round Top
What to do in this Hill Country hamlet when not antiquing.
Texas Trip Guides
November 20, 2014
Trip Guide: Marfa
It’s the favorable acreage-to-other-humans ratio that draws most visitors, who come for the space that this Chihuahuan Desert outpost has in spades.
Texas Trip Guides
October 14, 2014
Trip Guide: San Antonio’s Southtown
Let the other out-of-towners swarm the Alamo while you slip away to Southtown, a two-square-mile swatch just a few blocks below San Antonio’s touristy epicenter.
Texas Trip Guides
September 26, 2014
Trip Guide: Downtown Austin
The beating heart of the Capital City.
Texas Trip Guides
July 21, 2014
Trip Guide: Port Aransas
The seaside charms—and plentiful seafood platters—of a small coastal town.
Texas Trip Guides
May 21, 2014
Trip Guide: Bastrop
Its unofficial slogan, “East of Weird,” may be a cheeky nod to its location thirty miles east of Austin, but Bastrop, has plenty of its own character and characters.
Texas Trip Guides
May 2, 2014
Trip Guide: Angelina National Forest
Plan a weekend hiking mysterious piney paths and playing in the Angelina River using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 2, 2014
Trip Guide: Downtown Dallas
Plan a summertime weekend glitzing it up using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 2, 2014
Trip Guide: Baffin Bay
Plan a summertime weekend catching trophy trout using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Galveston
Plan a kid-friendly summertime weekend through this historic city by the sea using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
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jordanbreal
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Katy Vine
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Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Travaasa Austin
Plan a summertime weekend at this luxurious (and kid-free!) adult summer camp.
Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
A Red Enchilada Tour of El Paso
Plan a summer weekend in enchanted enchilada land using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Santa Fe
Plan a summertime weekend strolling through the streets of Santa Fe using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Rockport
Plan a summertime weekend surveying the coastal art scene using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Oaxaca
Plan a summertime weekend exploring Mexican markets and moles using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Texas Trip Guides
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: Palo Duro Canyon
Plan a summertime weekend of hiking and horseback riding using this guide with tips on what to do, where to eat, and where to stay.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 2014
Trip Guide: New Orleans
There is something wonderfully anachronistic about traveling by train in this modern age. And I’m not talking about workaday back-and-forth commuting on some dreary regional transit full of pallid stiffs. Quite the opposite: I mean real rail travel, travel the old-fashioned way—a weekend summer sojourn by way of a
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Texas Monthly
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David Courtney
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Texas Trip Guides
March 10, 2014
Trip Guide: Dallas’s Lower Greenville
Meet one of the state's newest hip neighborhoods.
Texas Trip Guides
January 16, 2014
Trip Guide: Paris, Texas
Paris, Texas, has a lot more to offer than just jokes about its famous namesake.
Texas Trip Guides
November 15, 2013
Trip Guide: Historic Downtown Houston
Houston's Market Square is one of the state's most historic spots. It's also one of the hippest places in the country to get a drink. Here's your curated guide to enjoying urban life inside the Loop.
Travel & Outdoors
April 30, 1973
Copper Canyon Spectacular
Over the Sierras to Topolobampo and back by the headiest of Mexican railroads.
Travel & Outdoors
February 1, 1973
Pack Up, Weekend Wanderers
ONCE UPON A TIME VACATIONS were like Christmas. Vacation was the once-a-year, eagerly awaited catharsis, the big pay-off for 50 weeks of bringing in the bread. Trouble was that after two weeks on the road with the family, two dogs and grape jelly smeared on the windows, you returned home