Rivers Archives

August 20, 2020

Where to Go Swimming Now in Texas

A handy guide to which of our beaches, lakes, rivers, creeks, swimming holes, and swimming pools are and aren’t open.

June 16, 2016

Where to go to cool off this summer.

November 7, 2011

Summer's over, but the drought may never be, and it's affecting everything from tourism to pecan pie to horse welfare.

April 30, 2010

What's missing from all the bureaucratic back and forth over permits and mining and dredging is a sense of the importance of the river itself.

April 30, 1995

A complete guide to the coolest stretch of the Guadalupe: 22 miles of tubing, rafting, and all-around fun in the sun.

May 31, 1982

A photographic tour of the timeless Rio Grande, from its origins in the mountains of Colorado to the Padre Island dunes at the tip of Texas.