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You can leave the big bucks behind when you head to a state park this Sunday. To celebrate Texas State Parks Day, officials are dropping the day-use admission fee. That means you can hike at Pedernales Falls State Park, where recent rains have bumped up flows down the...

You’d probably sooner find a rock star at the Away Spa than me, but when the downtown spot, tucked inside at the W Austin hotel, asked if I wanted to drop by for a treatment, I packed my swim suit and headed downtown. The hotel is located next to the Austin City...

I’d already stared at spinning wheels and leering clowns in one psychedelic room at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver, then teetered through a twisted staircase to get to another. Now I found myself crawling into a subterranean space, gazing through a peep...

I’ve long dreamed about watching grizzly bears snatch salmon swimming upstream to spawn, so my recent visit to Katmai National Park in Alaska ranks as one of the best days of my life. After taking a 30-minute bear education class at the park (“Do not cheer when a bear...

I love to taste the local flavors of the places I travel. I also love ice cream, so when I spent a few days in Anchorage last week, I bee-lined it – twice – to an ice cream shop that uses local plants to concoct its uniquely Alaskan scoops. Read more: When headed to...

Texans, prepare to swing open the doors to the fantastic and surreal world of Meow Wolf. The Santa Fe-based company, known for its interactive and immersive art exhibits, will unveil its first Texas “portal” on July 14. The Dallas location, called The Real Unreal, has...

The current heat wave has me pressing an iced tea glass to my forehead and scanning airline schedules for flights to Colorado. Turns out American Airlines is operating daily non-stop service from Austin to Aspen this summer. And while the daily route was originally...

Add soaking in an inflatable pool on a deck in the Chihuahuan Desert to the list of things that make me happy. I spent a night at Paisano Azul Ranch in Terlingua, where you can rent a yurt or a small modern cabin, or pitch a tent alongside a cactus-covered hillside. I...

I detoured through the little West Texas town of Sanderson while heading back to Austin from Big Bend recently and discovered a new coffee shop called Ferguson Motors. I first wandered through Sanderson three years ago, when I wrote about the scrappy little town for...