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Destination

The northeastern Bolivar Peninsula shoreline near High Island, valued for open Gulf access and proximity to one of the Upper Coast's best-known spring-migration birding areas.

Story

Those black-and-white FM shields are more than country-road decoration. They belong to a statewide highway system built to connect rural Texas to schools, towns and markets—and they still shape how the state feels from behind the wheel.

Destination

A Gulf-front amusement pier extending over the water from Galveston's Seawall, combining roller-coaster and thrill rides, family rides, midway games, food and broad coastal views in the tradition of the island's historic entertainment piers.

Destination

A barrier-island park spanning Gulf beach and Galveston Bay habitats, where paddling trails, birding, fishing and restored coastal prairie show both sides of the island beyond the city's seawall.

Guide

Galveston Island State Park RV Area places campers between Gulf beach and bay habitats, with TPWD-verified electric campsites, shore fishing, paddling trails, birding and direct access to a protected stretch of Galveston Island.

Guide

High Hill is a historic German Catholic community near Schulenburg whose identity is inseparable from Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church. The present church combines Gothic Revival architecture with an interior decorative program that uses painted illusion to create an effect far richer than the building’s exterior suggests.

Story

A highway can carry a memorial name or historic-route sign without changing its official route designation. TxDOT records those names separately, while the numbered highway system remains the legal transportation designation.

Destination

A long protected barrier-island coastline south of Corpus Christi where undeveloped Gulf beaches, dunes, tidal flats, sea-turtle conservation, bird migration and miles of beach driving preserve a much wilder Texas coast than the resort districts nearby.

Destination

The long undeveloped South Beach and down-island Gulf shoreline of Padre Island National Seashore, where remote beach driving, primitive camping and exceptional barrier-island solitude replace developed amenities.

Story

Ranch-to-Market roads look like close cousins of FM roads, but RM is its own Texas highway designation. Here is what TxDOT actually says the label means, how it differs from Ranch Road 1, and why the distinction is less tidy than the name suggests.

Destination

A privately owned, undeveloped barrier island across the ship channel from Port Aransas with miles of quiet Gulf beach used for shelling, birding and fishing.

Destination

The developed resort-city Gulf shoreline of South Padre Island, connected by city and county beach accesses and extending north toward drive-on county beach areas.

Guide

RV park or campground directory profile near South Padre Island, Cameron County.

Story

When a through highway bypasses a town, the older route may remain on the state system as a business route. Texas has business versions of Interstate, U.S., State and Farm-to-Market highways, each connecting local streets back to the main route.

Story

The bands, stadium lights and rivalries are only the surface. Texas high school football is part sport, part civic ritual and part small-town calendar.

Sports collection

Visit landmark Texas high-school football stadiums associated with Friday night lights, UIL playoffs and regional football culture.

Story

Texas road shields look like alphabet soup until you know the system. FM, RM, SH, Loop, Spur, Park Road and business routes each describe a different place in the state highway network.

Guide

Compare Texas with Rhode Island across housing, taxes, jobs, climate, geography, transportation and everyday life.

Calendar

Permanent Texas Defined event guide · Galveston · September 25–26, 2026

Guide

RV park or campground directory profile near Rockport, Aransas County.