
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.
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.
The independent spirit that helped create this historic town can also be found in its new restaurants, bars, and stores.
Stop and smell its famous roses, yes—but this East Texas city offers more to enjoy, including a delightful dining scene.
Five years after Hurricane Harvey, the beloved beach town continues to recover and evolve. Here are some of our favorite spots.
The town, an easy back-roads drive from Austin or DFW, is both quiet and brimming with worthy new shops and eateries.
Professional baseball teams once traveled here in search of healing waters
Our guide to this tranquil, often overlooked slice of the Hill Country.
A thriving arts scene, a surprising water lily garden, and historic landmarks make this Texas city a weekend-worthy destination.
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In our westernmost city, cultural boundaries are as fluid as the Rio Grande.
Just like Texas, Route 66 is a state of mind. Here’s where the mythologies intersect.
When a Cowtown neighborhood makes room for a vegan ice cream parlor, you know something’s changed.
Piscatory pursuits on the largest man-made lake in the South.
No, it’s not Marfa. And that’s just fine.
On the anniversary of last year’s flood, this Hill Country town is as beautiful as ever.
When the Alamo and the River Walk aren’t enough.
When you need a break from Uptown glitz, a scruffier, scrappier neighborhood beckons.
While away a weekend in the heart of Big Country.
What to see, drink, eat, and more.
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.
Not only are there 18 museums within a 1.5-mile radius, but the magnificent 445-acre Hermann Park is now in full bloom.
What to do in this Hill Country hamlet when not antiquing.
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.
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.
The beating heart of the Capital City.
The seaside charms—and plentiful seafood platters—of a small coastal town.
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.
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.
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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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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.
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
Meet one of the state's newest hip neighborhoods.
Paris, Texas, has a lot more to offer than just jokes about its famous namesake.
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.
Over the Sierras to Topolobampo and back by the headiest of Mexican railroads.
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