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Trip Guide: Travaasa Austin
Read Pamela Colloff’s account of recovering at a luxurious (and kid-free!) adult summer camp from our May 2014 issue.STAYTravaasa Austin // Situated on a secluded, densely-wooded area that feels far...
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Trip Guide: Galveston
Few places in Texas capture a child’s imagination quite like Galveston. Maybe it’s because of the Island’s rich history. For many years, the heavily tattooed native Karankawa tribe fished there,...
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Trip Guide: Baffin Bay
Pulling a big trout out of the vaunted waters of Baffin Bay requires the dogged determination and patience of a true fisherman. First there’s the drive from the nearest town of Riviera—population 700...
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Trip Guide: Downtown Dallas
Just a half mile from Dealey Plaza, in downtown Dallas, a weekend of extravagant relaxation can be had within the confines of several city blocks. That sentence could never have been written in 1995,...
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Trip Guide: Angelina National Forest
Our destination a rustic, isolated but decidedly unthreatening cabin in the woods, a friend and I headed east from Austin for a weekend at La Paz, an aptly named bed-and-breakfast perched on the banks...
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Trip Guide: Bastrop
Between its languid stretch of the Colorado River and its charming historic downtown, this small town (population 7,218) is an ideal place to while away a weekend. Its unofficial slogan, “East of...
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Trip Guide: Port Aransas
Though there are concerns that this small coastal town on the northern tip of Mustang Island has become too charming (read: teeming with tourists), I’m happy to report that it still feels as laid-back...
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Trip Guide: Downtown Austin
As one of Austin’s original neighborhoods, downtown has long been the city’s beating heart. Other areas—like East Austin and South Congress Avenue—may get more play in the press, but, as I wrote about...
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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. Here, tucked into historic pockets are...
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Trip Guide: Marfa
This guide was updated in August 2016. Believe it or not, there are still plenty of folks who haven’t “discovered” Marfa yet—it only feels like everyone already knows about this tiny West Texas...
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Trip Guide: Round Top
This guide was updated in July 2016. Round Top, though all of 640 acres (and with an official population that hovers somewhere around ninety souls), is hardly just a blip on the map. You’ve likely...
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Trip Guide: Houston’s Museum District
This guide was updated in July 2016. In terms of cultural heft, Houston is Texas’s reigning heavyweight champ, and one of its best pockets is the Museum District, a leafy neighborhood wedged between...
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Trip Guide: Canadian
This guide was updated in July 2016. Situated near the tip-top of the Panhandle, Canadian sprang up in 1887 around the river that it’s named for, which early explorers assumed was so far north that it...
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Trip Guide: Los Fresnos
For my September 2015 column, I headed to Texas’ southernmost county for a lot of birding, some barbacoa, and a little beach time. Like the whole of the Rio Grande Valley, Los Fresnos and its...
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Trip Guide: Abilene
As I noted a few weeks back, my most recent trip to the Key City was long overdue. And as I’ve noted in my (newly revamped) November 2015 column, I’m already eager to return, having rediscovered the...
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Trip Guide: Wimberley
Most of the cypresses still standing along Wimberley’s stretch of the Blanco River arch dramatically, their leafless crowns pointed east, as if they’re all bowing to an unseen deity. It’s been a year...
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Trip Guide: Alpine
This article was updated on February 12, 2018. While visiting Alpine for the first time, a friend recently proclaimed that the West Texas town was her new Marfa. At first, I was a touch indignant....
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Trip Guide: Toledo Bend Reservoir
On my first morning deep in the Piney Woods, I handed over three quarters for a Sabine County Reporter. The 133-year-old East Texas weekly had just come off the press, but the main headline—“Toledo...
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Trip Guide: El Paso
As soon as I landed in El Paso, I wanted to get as close as I could to the point where Texas ends and Mexico begins. On previous trips I’d wound my way up Scenic Drive to Murchison Park, a popular...
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El Paso’s Hotel Renaissance Beckons Visitors Downtown
With its provocative collection of modern artwork and avant-garde furnishings, El Paso’s Stanton House could be mistaken for a museum. The 42-room boutique hotel, replete with a spa featuring sensory...
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Wineries, Astronomy, and Caving Beckon in Burnet County
Texas Monthly’s Small-town Travel series explores the culture and history of destinations off the beaten path, offering advice on where to stay, eat, and sightsee. Most visitors to Burnet County, in...
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Where to Stay, Shop, Ride, and Two-step in Bandera, the Cowboy Capital of the...
Texas Monthly’s Small-town Travel series explores the culture and history of destinations off the beaten path, offering advice on where to stay, eat, and sightsee. Millions of Longhorns once clattered...
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Texas’s Biggest, Strangest, and, Yes, Most Venomous Roadside Attractions
On the road, Texans learn to bend time. In other parts of the world, folks don’t consider four hours to be a “short drive.” But here, you can sit in the car for four hours and never get out of North...
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Hip Bars and Culinary Surprises Take Longview to a New Level
Every town wants to be known for something. In Texas it’s often a popular farm crop: Poteet has strawberries. Mission has citrus. Luling has watermelons. You get the idea. Longview’s railroad and oil...
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Galveston Is a Tourist Hot Spot Once Again
I met Fish Hook by the Galveston Channel on a breezy evening earlier this year. As he sipped an Icehouse tallboy and fiddled with a cigarette he had yet to light, I asked him how he had ended up here....
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