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NASA Johnson Space Center Houston
51 Reviews I concur - if you have a car, it is a much better option to drive to Space Center Houston instead of taking the bus there. After your tour of NASA, I recommend heading down NASA Rd 1 towards the bay...
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Riverwalk & Riverwalk Mall San Antonio
84 Reviews I've experienced the san Antonio River Walk several times now (latest was Jan. 2013) and even in winter with the leafless trees along the area, it is still relaxing and fun. The San Antonio River...
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Reunion Tower Dallas
17 Reviews Reunion Tower observation area is expected to reopen sometime in 2012, but no expected date has been given. In the meantime, you can either eat at the restaurant or go up to the bar to be able to get...
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Capitol Austin
33 Reviews Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 for its "significant contribution to American history," the Texas Capitol is an impressive example of late 19th century public architecture. The largest...
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Stockyards Historic District Fort Worth
45 Reviews I wish I would have allowed more time to spend in the National Historic District of Fort Worth Stockyards because there was so much to see and do and a real look at what old western USA life and times...
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Moody Gardens Galveston
9 Reviews Yes, it's the mega Moody Gardens. You know, I recently bought a copy of a travel book for kids in Houston and they listed Moody Gardens on there and the cost was $4. Well, I paid $45.00 for a one day...
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Schliterbahn Water Park South Padre Island
2 Reviews Schliterbahn (German for slippery road) is a 'branch' of the water park by the same name in San Marcos, North of San Antonio. This version is not nearly as big, but it will do if you're into this sort...
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Downtown El Paso El Paso
7 Reviews Lynx hosts a variety of revolving, changing exhibits. When I was in El Paso it featured a multidiscipline exhibit about the “Supercroc” which lived 110 million years ago and fought dinosaurs for...
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Corpus Christi Downtown Corpus Christi
7 Reviews The Texas Surf Museum is a fairly small one, located directly downtown. It houses displays about surfing with an emphasis on surfing the Gulf Coast. Check out the neat mural and the board-shaping...
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Santa Elena Canyon Trail Big Bend National Park
7 Reviews Santa Elena Canyon is my favorite place in Big Bend. It speaks "Big Bend" in its layout, its ruggedness and its isolation. Every time I come to the park, I make sure to visit here. The trail is not...
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Guadalupe River New Braunfels
9 Reviews River Sports Tube Rentals - I will NEVER use this tubing service again. A recent trip cost us $75 for 4 of us, and 2 in the group had their own personal tubes. We were charged a "personal equipment...
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LBJ Ranch Fredericksburg
8 Reviews As we toured The Texas White House and various sites related to our former President's childhood, I couldn't help but recall some of my childhood memories. My grandparents owned a farm in...
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Las Colinas Sculpture Irving
6 Reviews This striking sculpture known as The Mustangs was placed on Williams Square in 1984. The horses gallop across the plaza on a granite stream, manes streaming behind them, wild and free! We've taken...
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Dr. Pepper Museum Waco
4 Reviews Who would have thought touring an old bottling plant would be so interesting--but it was! The Dr. Pepper Museum is housed in a former bottling plant, constructed in 1891 in Dublin, Texas--a small...
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Cadillac Ranch Amarillo
9 Reviews The Cadillac Ranch was a huge disappointment. From photos going back about forty years, I was expecting a pink Cadillac or two. What exists now is a lot of graffiti-covered junk. All the original...
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Aquarena Springs San Marcos
3 Reviews The old Aquarena Springs on Spring Lake that boasted beautifully manicured & landscaped grounds with a well managed program that controlled non-native plant growth in the lake is history. The Texas...
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Texas Sculpture Garden Frisco
1 Review This is a free park with sculpture done by Texas artists. There are both indoor and outdoor sculptures. We took our granddaughter here to see them one day. She enjoyed the more representational ones....
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Sam Houston Memorial Museum Huntsville
12 Reviews There are two additional cabins, with no direct connection to Sam Houston that I am aware of, located on the museum grounds. They are both "dogtrot" style cabins from the period between the Texas...
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Buddy Holly Center Lubbock
3 Reviews First off, I need to admit I was not a big buddy holly fan however I was pleasantly surprised with the Buddy Holly Center. Admission is $5 per adult and a visit will take at least 45 minutes. The...
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Blacksmith Grapevine
4 Reviews The Grapevine Heritage Society reconstructed the old blacksmith shop with the help of volunteer labour and fundraising and the building was dedicated in 1995 by the Mayor. The old tin shop is on the...
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Historic District McKinney
1 Review McKinney has preserved a number of structures which comprise historic Chestnut Square Village. Taking your family on a guided tour would make for an interesting history lesson! A turn of the century...
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Belton Lake Killeen
2 Reviews Well, if you were ever stuck for accommodation, while visiting Killeen, you could easily make yourself right at home in one of these caves.. There was some evidence that someone had done just that.....
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Candlelight Christmas Tour Granbury
1 Review We rang in the holiday season at Granbury's Candlelight Tour of wonderful old houses in early December. Since it was the tour's 25th year, twenty five historic residences and buildings were open to...
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Ellis County Courthouse Waxahachie
4 Reviews This is considered by many to be the finest courthouse in the state. Considering that there are well over 200 counties here, that is quite a remarkable accomplishment. This 1895 courthouse is made of...
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Samuell Farm Mesquite
1 Review Technically, Samuell Farm is in Mesquite but it comes under Dallas County and part of it is leased by Sunnyvale so everyone has a little piece in the area. The area was originally deeded to the city...
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The Texas State museum sits a few blocks from the State Capitol in Austin and outlines the history of Texas from prehistoric to modern times with a large area devoted to the war of independance from Mexico.
One of the few American cuisines id found in Texas. You will not find it at national chains. Ask a friendly Texan where you can find some good Tex-Mex food. They will point you to a local family owned place. Often kids run around and the whole family is staffing the restaurant. This is often great food. Processed cheese sauce did not appear on any plate I had on my last trip. Some how in the rest of the U.S. processed cheese has become common at Mexican food places. Much of it will be fresh and the spicy food is welcome in this climate.
The U.S.S. Lexington Museum on the Bay allows visitors to take self-guided tours through the U.S.S. Lexington, a now-decommissioned aircraft carrier built during the Second World War. Visitors can wander around and explore the insides of the huge ship, sit behind the control panel of a fighter jet, ride in a flight simulator, or watch movies on a three-story screen in the 193-seat MEGA Theater.The U.S.S. Lexington was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during the Second World War. Called the "Blue Ghost" because she was painted blue, she was the fifth ship in the United States Navy to bear the name Lexington, in honor of the Battle of Lexington during the American Revolutionary War.The U.S.S. Lexington was commissioned in 1943 and served in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the Second World War. After the war, she was decommissioned, but was...
The Amistad National Recreation Area is a joint US-Mexican venture brought about by the building of the Amistad (Friendship) dam forming a reservoir. Attractions predominately revolve around water activities like fishing, boating and watching wildlife; but there are also pre-historic pictographs accessible by foot and boat, and a few nice hiking trails. There is also a monument to the friendship between the US and Mexico on the Amistad Dam. The park has several different parts. I went to Amistad Dam and Reservoir, the Pecos River and the Visitors Center. My favorite part was the view of the Pecos River from the nature trail, and the Friendship Dam.
This is a must for American football fans especially fans of the Dallas Cowboys...to say that this place is overwhelming is an understatement.. Located in the city of Arlington Texas this Stadium is the biggest domed stadium with a retractable roof in the world...Completed in June 2009 at a cost of 1.15 billion dollars and holds 80,000 excited football fans.. this is some stadium..The hugeness of it is felt when standing in the centre of the playing field...To describe the statistics of this place would take forever...needless to say its a gigantic football stadium..I spent a few hours wandering around the various parts of the stadium and even when there is no game on there is still an army of staff coming and going...the logistics here must be really something to cope with the amount of people even just visiting..
While visiting a friend in Dallas I was offered a day out to visit The Texas Rangers Museum and Hall of Fame in Waco. which I immediately agreed to...This was a really hot Texas summers day and I must say being used to the heat I found the temperature really oppressive. . The Texas Rangers Museum is dedicated to what used to be the most feared law enforcement agency in the country and still is I guess....Although not a big Museum there is enough armoury in here to start a world war...I have never seen so many Colt 45's the trademak weapon of the Texas Rangers along with the many and varied rifles especially the famous Winchester lever action..some of these weapons on display have their origins in early Spanish Mexico conflicts mostly confiscated in the over 180 year history of the Texas Rangers service to the public of Texas..The Texas Rangers are prominent in their stetson hats and colt...
Originally, the Army was stationed around the Alamo after coming to San Antonio in 1845. The Army then moved out here in 1876, evolving from an original 92 acres to over 3000 today. This was the largest Army post in the continental United states from 1910 until World War II. Today, the main post is located east and south of a vast Parade Ground - jogging around the entire Parade Ground will score you a five mile run, something I used to do daily in my gung ho days - and officer family quarters are across on the other side.The best place to start a visit to the Fort is to head to the Fort Sam Houston Museum located out near the southwestern edge of the Parade Grounds. Like most military posts today, Fort Sam is not open as it was in the days of my training. To enter, with identification, you need to pick up a daily visitor pass at one of three gates - the main two being Walters Street...
Austin has a motto that is seen often as one drives through its streets--KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD! I think that might describe some of the activities along Sixth Street at 1 am, but during the day it's a nice little university town located to the south of Dallas and Ft. Worth.One can't hear the name AUSTIN and not relate it to music. We recently visited during a jazz festival. The city is hoping to develop this event as New Orleans has in past years. There is a picturesque historic cemetery (the Texas State Cemetery), a grandfather tree older than Columbus (the Treaty Tree), a superb university (Texas State U) a Presidential library (Lyndon Baines Johnson)and historic buildings such as the Governors Mansion and the Capitol Building.If you want to sense the flavor of historic Austin, check into the Driskill Hotel. To experience the excitement of Austin, visit when a Longhorns football game is...
This is proof that even on a 103F day you can have fun outdoors! Friends invited us to Six Flags this summer and in spite of the record temperatures we spent eight wonderful hours dashing on and off the rides, running in and out of the misters and sprinklers, getting tattoos (temporary) and just enjoying each others company.Six Flags offers 20 thrill rides such as the Titan, Superman Tower of Power and Splash Water Falls, plus 20 kid/family friendly rides like the Mine Railroad, Roaring Rapids and Gocarts. Ten new rides were added this year alone!There are usually discount specials for the park, which help defray the cost of entrance. Once school begins the park is only opened on weekends. The cost online is $39.95; $35.00 for kids under 48" and 2 and under are free. Hours vary seasonally.We all had a terrific time at Six Flags and are looking forward to next year! Arlington is located...
Grapevine, Texas is the oldest settlement in Tarrant County Texas. This historic town offers nine wineries which comprise a wine trail. Annual events like Main Street Days in May and Grapefest in September attract many visitors from the area. It is located a few miles north of Dallas.The Gaylord Texan, a mega-resort which offers a unique stay with many amenities is located nearby. The Grapevine Opry has hosted guest performers such as Lee Ann Rimes and Charlie Walker on Saturdays throughout the year and features an in house band. The Grapevine Vintage Railroad takes sightseers to Ft. Worth stockyards and back for a reasonable fee, while its Cotton Belt Depot is a visitor's center and museum for local lore. Quaint buildings on main street have been refurbished and contain one of a kind shops and restaurants. The Grapevine Mills Discount Mall and Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World have just...
Hotel Contessa San Antonio
4 Reviews and 1002 Opinions The hotel was nice and so was the staff. They fixed a problem with our door within 5 minutes and...
The Magnolia Houston Houston
1 Review and 1650 Opinions The Magnolia Hotel opened in 2002 in the old downtown Post-Dispatch building, which was built in...
Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek Dallas
1 Review and 272 Opinions WORDS do not express how wonderful and elegant this hotel is! The people are absolutely wonderful...
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