Gladewater Offers Walkable Shopping and Dining in East Texas’ Antique Capital
With its old buildings, passing trains, vintage shops, and faded storefronts, Gladewater can seem like a relic from a bygone…
Unplug in the pines at High Hill Farm
With Tyler in my rearview mirror, I’m driving southeast toward the tiny town of Arp on twisting farm-to-market roads, deep…
Head East
As the craft-beer movement explodes in the Lone Star State, well-made beers are originating beyond Texas’ major cities and long-established…
Pine Curtain of the Past
Looking up into the thick pine canopy of deep East Texas, it’s hard to believe that the pristine forests the…
Texas Top 40 No. 37, Caddo Lake State Park
Every Texan should experience the primordial mystery of Caddo Lake State Park. With its ghostly, century-old cypress trees draped with…
Caddo’s Primordial Calling
My boyfriend seems unusually skittish as he peers into the utter blackness beyond our cabin door at Caddo Lake State…
One Crazy Camping Trip
In the October 2013 issue of Texas Highways, Babs Rodriguez’s account of a fall fishing getaway shows how so many…
Northeast Explorer
After running across a brief story on a new rail-trail in northeast Texas, I had to investigate. The 130-mile trail—open…
Welcome to Shangri La
It all started with a story. British author James Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, told of a nirvana tucked away…
Caddo Country
Long burined beneath mysterious earthen mounds and lost within dense forests and hidden glades, remnants of an ancient mound-building civilization…
Roads to Freedom
Before I met Cedric Fletcher, the man who would become my husband, I had never heard of the East Texas…