Driftwood, seventeen miles northwest of San Marcos in central Hays County, grew up in the 1880s as a supply center for neighboring ranches and farms...
Welcome to Day Trippin' Texas
Texas covers 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation’s total area. That means that we have a LOT of places to see. We have beaches and deserts, mountains and plains, historic forts and really old churches, and lots of whimsical roadside attractions.
So if you're looking for somewhere to go, something to do or some place new to see, we can help you find it.
Central Texas
Lake Buescher, Smithville
Buescher State Park is a state park located just north of Smithville. The park consists of 1,016.7 acres of public land donated to the state by Mr...
St. Michael’s Catholic Church
Located in Weimar. Established as a Mission in 1888, by Father Edward Brucklin, who became first resident priest in 1892. An earlier frame structure...
Old barn in New Bielau
Photo Rob Sneed
Enchanted Rock in the Hill Country
Enchanted Rock is an enormous pink granite pluton rock formation located in the Llano Uplift approximately 15 miles north of Fredericksburg in the...
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg
Several black families were residing in Gillespie County by the 1870s. A schoolhouse was built in 1877 on property adjacent to this later church site...
East Texas
15 Texas Best Sunrises
The BEST Texas sunrises? Well, that's not exactly true because there are just so many more than 15 of them.
Passage into the Primeval: Caddo Lake
Caddo Lake is the largest Cypress Forest in the world.
Caddo Lake
Dallas Camera Club field trip sideshow from Caddo Lake. Awesome images!
Azalea Trail History in Tyler
A quick look at how the beautiful Azalea Trail event got started in Tyler.
East Texas Road Trip with Mary and Mac
I had to get out of the city, and discover a bit of East Texas...
Jefferson
Welcome to the City of Jefferson… "Riverport to the Southwest". Settle in for a journey through time when the living was easy and the era was golden.
Gulf Coast
Port Isabel
As one of the oldest cities in extreme south Texas, Port Isabel has a long and interesting history dating back to 1519 when it was charted by Spanish...
Brazos Bend State Park
Wonderful view of the wetlands at Brazos Bend State Park in Needville. Photo Bill Jacomet
Texas Wetlands
Texas is a large and ecologically diverse state containing many different types of wetlands, most of which can be placed in the below categories:...
Hotel Galvez, Galveston
Galveston civic leaders planned on building the Hotel Galvez in 1898 after a fire destroyed another large hotel (the Beach Hotel) on Galveston Island...
Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Galveston
This is not the first, but the second Sacred Heart church on this site. The first one, like most of Galveston, was taken by the Great Storm. It is...
St. Josephs in Galveston
St. Joseph’s in Galveston is a deconsecrated historic church building managed as a community and historic resource by GHF. The oldest German...
North Texas
Abandoned St. John’s Catholic Church in Bomarton
This is the Milky Way over the abandoned St. John’s Catholic Church in Bomarton. Bomarton, on U.S. Highway 277 near the Knox county line in...
Bug Tussle
Bug Tussle is at the junction of Farm Road 1550 and State Highway 34, ten miles south of Honey Grove and five miles north of Ladonia in southeastern...
Lake Ray Roberts
Lake Ray Roberts (formally Ray Roberts Lake) is a 29,350-acre reservoir located 10 miles north of Denton between the cities of Pilot Point and Sanger...
Boyd
Boyd is a town in Wise County. The population was 1,350 at the 2010 census. It is thirty miles northwest from the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Photo...
Woodmen’s Circle Home in Sherman
Woodmen Circle Home was an orphanage and a dormitory for widowed women.
Baker Hotel by Drone
An aerial tour of the exterior of the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells.
Panhandle
Abandoned Farmhouse in Mount Blanco
Mount Blanco is on the Caprock escarpment off Farm Road 193 fifty-five miles northeast of Lubbock in northern Crosby County. It was named for a...
Yellow Rose Inn
Enjoy an old country breakfast in a Victorian style inn. Relax at your own pace and dream of a simpler life. Visit with local people and the...
Scooting in The Grand Canyon of Texas
One family's weekend adventure scooting and hiking the canyon.
Sunset over the Panhandle Plains
Love this sky! If you look closely above the horizon on the right side, you’ll see a flock of birds — geese, maybe — and they trail...
Amarillo Sunset
Outside Amarillo in the middle of a field sits this abandoned homestead. Once someone's dream.
Caprock Canyons
View of Caprock Canyons from Haynes Ridge, Briscoe County. Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas state park located along the eastern...
South Texas
Langtry
The community is notable as the place where "Judge" Roy Bean, the "Law West of the Pecos", had his saloon and practiced a kind of law.
The Friendliest Little Border Town in Texas
It's a wonderful time to visit Del Rio and its sister city in Mexico, where holiday bargains and natural beauty abound.
Spinach Capital of the World
Crystal City is in Zavala County. It was originally settled by American farmers and ranchers producing cattle and various crops. Crystal City was a...
15 Texas Best Sunrises
The BEST Texas sunrises? Well, that's not exactly true because there are just so many more than 15 of them.
Judge Roy Bean Holds Court
The community is notable as the place where "Judge" Roy Bean, the "Law West of the Pecos", had his saloon and practiced a kind of law.
West Texas
Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park in Texas.
West Texas Red Clay
Red clay derives its color from iron oxide, and is usually created through the breakdown of rocks in lower substrates. Red clay is technically a...
El Cosmico, Marfa
If you find yourself in Marfa looking for an interesting place to stay, check out El Cosmico. It's an out of this world stop on The Texas Bucket List...
Flying Over Big Bend
Given it's 801,163 acre size, it's hard to comprehend all that is Big Bend.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
The world's largest coral reef.
Hiking on the North Franklin Peak in El Paso
Our friend over at El Paso Hiking shared his video of a March hike up to North Mount Franklin Peak in the Franklin Mountains State Park, El Paso.
