Perhaps it would be all right for me to simply ASK--since I love mountains and waterfalls best, also massive forests, just where WOULD be some places I should visit here in Texas? Living in Tyler, I've been to a Nat'l Forest, Caddo Lake, one State Park in the Pineywoods I cannot recall the name of, except that it's an old mission...and the thing I learned is, when vacationing in Texas, don't go much of anywhere during mosquito season! Plus, just plain stay out of the sun, except from November through mid-May, perhaps.
What about Big Bend Nat'l Park and Guadalupe Mtns Nat'l Park, anyway? I am physically unable to 'camp out', thus need some sort of lodging facility (just as inexpensive as possible) and those aren't exactly common--I don't think there is anywhere at all, near Guadalupe Mtns. I know there are some lovely State Parks I'd like to see--and the ones I'm interested in seem rather far from lodgings, also.
I'm not too interested in 'cities' at all--but there may be some interesting LITTLE towns I ought to visit--have been to plenty of them up here in the Pineywoods, just not elsewhere. Thus, I'll be really interested to read all replies to this post by Meadow47, see if I can get some good 'Texas vacation' ideas! It IS such a terribly long way from Tyler out to the Rockies or over to the Appalachians, after all...(sigh)
I think Austin is beautiful. As far as family fun, it would have to be Galveston. Everyone loves the beach. i love the watching people and the good places to eat.
Well I have been to quite a few places here in Texas and I can`t really pick onefavorite spot. I enjoy the piney woods of east Tex., I enjoy the hill country and really loved Bastrop State Park. I have been to qite a few of the state parks and I have traveled thru many of the small towns that still have a town square. I love San Antonio during the holidays with all their lights. So there are some really nice spots to go in Texas but my favorite place is up in the rockies. Sorry Texas Friends but I don`t want to lie. Pmac
I always enjoyed the lakes. We go out on Lake Travis when we come to Texas, and all around the Hill Country. San Antonio is another place we like to visit. But the most favorite is all around Austin.
I've vacationed about everywhere in Texas. I've been to Corpus, Odessa and the west, Salado (I really like to stay at the Stagecoach Inn), Austin, Ft. Worth, the stockyards in Ft. Worth, Arlington (my original home) well, just name it and I think I've been there. My very favorite place in Texas to visit is San Antonio. There is so much to do there and you get a little taste of every nationality in our wonderful state. I love Austin for the same reasons. I just discovered Austin too late. I would love to go back to my younger days and take all of Austin in.
I love Palo Duro Canyon (The Texas performance is great),Galveston for beach and wonderful seafood, although I think Kemah has the best. The Observatory atFort Davis in the Big Bend area. San Angelo has Fort Concho and we were very entertained by the shop that used to be a whore house
can I say that here? It had seperate rooms that were decorated as they might have been early 1900's. I don't think it is open to the public now. It was called "Miss Hatties" Does anyone know if it still exists.?
Post up by Lubbock still has its trade days mostly inside in an old mill.
I would love to go to Palo Duro Canyon right after a snowfall and get photos of the canyon with a dusting of snow. I also need to get down to Lost Maples state Park and shoot the colors in the fall. Pmac
In the summer of 1982 my parents and youngest sister were then living in Kentucky and one of my brothers and his family were living in San Diego, California. My brother's youngest child had just been born April 27th that year. Since my parents were so far away from my brother, they had not been able to spend much time with him and his family, so I arranged for us to have a camping vacation together in the Davis Mountains State Park that summer. While we were there tent camping we noticed there was a motel there run by the state park system that was called an Indian Lodge. We had one of our meals in the restaurant there.
While there, we took a little side trip one of the days for the kids to go swimming in the Balmorhea park swimming pool.
Another day we went up to the McDonald Observatory.
Our older son was nine years old at the time and found an 11 year old boy from Waco for a mountain climbing buddy.
The younger kids had a playground to enjoy near our campsite. We also went into town at Fort Davis and visited the historic sites there.
One piece of advice, if you go camping there: Take along aspirin or other pain reliever and Benadryl just in case you should need it, because we did see a few scorpions at the campground.
To sum up, our family vacation in the Davis Mountains is a great memory and we had a wonderful time. The weather was quite pleasant...usually in the 80's in the daytime with a light shower to cool us off in the afternoon and then in the 60's at night. What could have been better for those of us who were used to suffering in hotter weather down here in the Rio Grande Valley in summer. The only one of our kids who didn't get to enjoy that trip was our younger son, who wasn't born yet.
Palo Duro Canyon is a beautiful area. You do have to be aware that if it storms, immediately head for high ground. It floods a lot during the stormy season. There is lots to do down there. There's horseback riding, the musical Texas, a gift shop, lots of hiking areas, and if you're really adventurous, there are old cabins that you can rent.
There's Greenbelt Lake just north of Clarendon. It's a beautiful lake and has great fishing.
Galveston, and Caprock Canyon are two of my favorites. I'd love to make it out to Big Bend one of these days. I like the quiet places away from the crowds of tourists - but those places are getting hard to find these days.
Sandra Mc
