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Texas Highways Magazine
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Texas Highways Magazine
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The official travel magazine of Texas. On the road since 1974 🚙🤠
- If you’ve never visited Big Bend National Park, it can feel intimidating. That's why we put together a first-timers guide to the largest park in Texas. Here's how to get there, where to stay, what to bring, and everything else you need to know:
- A visit to Big Bend National Park can feel intimidating with its wild and rugged landscape. Here, we have all the information to put your mind at ease and help you enjoy the largest park in Texas.
- .@TracesofTexas shared this image of famed rancher Charles Goodnight. He was born 184 years ago today and just one day before the Alamo fell. Folklorist J. Frank Dobie said that Goodnight "approached greatness more nearly than any other cowman of history."
- A small South Texas town may seem an unlikely birthplace for a brand synonymous with Super Bowl parties and Southern casseroles. But Elsa, about 25 miles north of the border in the RGV, is where Ro-Tel’s popular canned tomatoes and peppers originated 🍅
- Photographer John Clark discovers patience is a virtue when looking for the perfect Texas wildflower photo.
- The beloved Texas horned lizard used to be found across much of the state. Numerous factors have led to their decline. These days, biologists are working to breed lizards at zoos to replenish wild populations. texashighways.com/travel/outdoor…
- This month, the storied bar next to Texas A&M campus celebrates 50 years of serving beer and good times 🍻👍
- The epic 1996 drama "Lone Star" is one of director John Sayles' masterpieces. As the film gets a new release from the Criterion Collection, @mattzollerseitz spoke with Sayles about his neo-Western, starring Matthew McConaughey and Kris Kristofferson.
- In honor of Sine Die, meet Comfort Tysen—the longest-serving guide at the Texas State Capitol with over 20 years of service.
- In the words of Willie Nelson, we just can’t wait to get on the road again. (From our archives)
- After years of efforts to acquire state recognition for the country music pioneer, a historical marker for Freddy Fender has been unveiled in front of the Grammy-winning musician's former home.
- Congrats to 3-year-old Journey Castillo! She's a San Antonio native who recently became the youngest person to visit all 63 U.S. national parks in record time. 🥾
- Trucks parked outside a sandwich shop and beer joint in Waco, 1939. A sign for Grand Prize beer, which was once the best-selling beer in Texas, hangs on the pole. It was brewed by the Gulf Brewing Company on the grounds of the Hughes Tool Company in Houston. 📷: Russell Lee
