Texas Highways Magazine

Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages recreational travel within Texas and tells the Texas story to readers around the world. Renowned for its photography, statewide events coverage, top weekend excursions, off-the-beaten path discoveries, and scenic destinations, Texas Highways helps readers discover the treasures of the Lone Star State.

The First 100

Texas Highways Magazine

Behind the Story

MERGE • This is a beautifully written and insightful chronicle by Jenny Tinghui Zhang that enfolds the reader in key junctures of her and her parents’ lives as immigrants in Texas, who endured much to simply provide opportunity for their child and live as Americans—Texans—in these times.

Promise of Summer

Athens • Councilmember SyTanna Freeman is immersed in community life of her East Texas town

Hive Mind • A beekeeper reconnects with the natural world in an apiary

DRIVE

Water Bed • Sea Rim State Park invites explorers to experience a night aboard a floating campsite

Home to Roost • State park bird blinds offer a closer look at Texas’ avian diversity

All the Right Notes • Old meets new in the upbeat North Texas college town of Denton

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE • Climb, paddle, or backpack your way through Texas for an unforgettable summer

CLIMBING

BACKPACKING

WILDLIFE VIEWING

ADVENTURE AWAITS!

SWIMMING

Parks After Dark • WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN AND THE STARS COME OUT, THE BEAUTY OF TEXAS’ STATE PARKS DAZZLES ANEW

ROCK STAR • NATURAL AREAS LIKE FREDERICKBURG’S BELOVED ENCHANTED ROCK MAKE THE CASE FOR MORE PUBLIC LAND

PLATES

Campfire Cookout • Seasoned campers offer tips and tricks for making tasty meals in the great outdoors

Good to the Corps • A new cookbook pays homage to the workers who built many of Texas’ state parks and the meals that sustained them

Out From Under • Teenagers and young adults excavated one of Texas’ most stunning caverns

Getaway to Galveston: IT’S ISLAND TIME

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Centennial Celebration • Caprock Canyons and other state parks celebrate 100 years of the Texas State Parks system

Big Spring • A West Texas getaway with a built-in state park

Parks & Rec • Conservationist Andrew Sansom looks to the future of state parks and the fight to preserve the Texas landscape

Mother Nature • HOUSTON, CIRCA 1880