Featured Themes, Sites, and Cities
Destination Highlights
HIDDEN FACES, HOLLOW ROCKS
A unique geology and a relative abundance of water made the Hueco Tanks site a refuge for nature and humans for over ten thousand years. Formed thirty four million years ago when magma entered an older limestone...
BIG BEND, BIGGER BIRD
Housed in the remaining native rock structure on the Sul Ross State University Campus, the Museum of the Big Bend provides visitors with an overview of the region’s human occupation that spans the last eleven thousand...
THE OL’ LOCAL WATERING HOLE
Visitors to Post Park, a small, pastoral county park five miles south of Marathon, are not surprised to learn that the site served nomadic people for thousands of years. Peña Colorada Springs makes a showing...
Travel Themes
EARTH, GRASS, AND WATER
What do you get when you mix earth, grass, and water together and allow the mixture to dry in the sun? You get adobe, one of the oldest known forms of construction material on the planet. In Texas...
TO THE RAMPARTS!
The defense of a territory as big as Texas required investing big resources into the effort-materials and man power, especially-a fact not lost on our Texas ancestors. In fact, far more forts and presidios...
HISTORY IS BETTER OUTSIDE!
When most folks think of state parks and natural areas in Texas, things like wildlife and hiking trails come to mind. But our state parks and natural areas are ideal places to explore history as...
