I'd Rather Be Hiking

If course, parks head the list!

The 26 Most Beautiful Places In Texas, According To A Local From bustling cities to small towns, beaches to mountains, Texas is full of surprises just waiting to be discovered. Here are the most beautiful places in Texas to visit.

Joining the widely celebrated freeway-capping Klyde Warren Park, which opened its first phase over a stretch of a recessed downtown freeway in 2012, Halperin Park is a community-centric model for addressing the divisions wrought by highway building.

Dallas built a stunning park on top of 14 lanes of freeway Another impressive freeway cap park re-stitches the Texas city. But the Trump administration has made other freeway cap projects unlikely.

"ParkServe's mapping tool shows which parts of ranked cities should be a high priority for new parks. And it should be unsurprising that the areas highlighted in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and other Texas cities are where increased migration in has caused sprawl and parkland has failed to keep pace. And the Trust for Public Land would call that a mistake. According to the organization's research, every $1 invested in parks and recreation returns an average of $3 in local economic benefits each year as result of lowered stormwater treatment and healthcare costs, among others."

New survey shows not every Texan has access to 'wide open spaces' "In short, if your city isn’t investing in spaces that bring the community together, it’s failing ..."

"When a family in Taylor, Texas, transferred 87 acres to a public trust for $10 in 1999, the goal was simple: the land was supposed to become a public park, according to 404 Media. Instead, the site, located at 1601 E. Martin Luther King Blvd., took a different path. After being granted to the Williamson County Park Foundation in the early 2000's, and then to the City of Taylor, the land was then sold to the Taylor Economic Development Corporation in 2008, according to Fox 7. Then, in April 2025, the corporation sold the property to Blueprint for $10 million to make way for a 135,000 square-foot data center."

87 acres once gifted as Texas parkland now set for major data center An 87-acre tract originally intended for public use has been sold and rezoned.

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Blue Hole: A historic oasis in Williamson County with a striking hue A tranquil lagoon on the South Fork of the San Gabriel River, Georgetown’s Blue Hole Park has been a staple for locals and tourists to cool off during the hot summer months.

It’s a community hotspot for swimming in the hot summer months, but was does the future of Krause Springs look like? Although the spring has never run dry, will it continue to stay healthy despite drought and increased pumping?

Researchers studying aquifer to gauge future of popular swimming hole Meteorologist Kristen Currie spoke with Mitchell Sodek with the Central Texas Groundwater Conservation District to discuss the current studies being done to understand the geology and environment t…

Silver Lake State Park located near San Antonio will offer caves, watering holes and miles of river frontage and lake access once it opens to the public

Texas is getting a massive new state park with caves, canyons and waterholes Hikers, anglers and campers have a huge new Texas destination to look forward to.

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Refreshing natural swimming spots in Texas From the emerald waters of Blue Hole to the massive spring-fed pool at Balmorhea State Park, Texas offers a variety of natural swimming escapes. These destinations feature consistently cool temperatures, scenic limestone banks, and unique ecosystems, with activities ranging from tubing and kayaking....

"If you think one jellyfish looks like another, marine biologists at Texas A&M University Galveston would disagree. Researchers have identified a jellyfish species previously unknown to science."

Texas Standard for April 28, 2026: Scientists identify jellyfish species previously unknown to science If you think one jellyfish looks like another, marine biologists at Texas A&M University Galveston would disagree. Researchers have identified a jellyfish species previously unknown to science.

"Anderson took his first trip to Big Bend National Park in 1988, as a newly minted PhD. He went to the base of Cattail Falls. When it rains in the Chisos Basin, water pours out here through the park’s famous Window, and Anderson went to rooting around in the lush undergrowth.

“And so I crawled in there,” Anderson said, “went in and ended up coming out with some leaf litter that I sorted through – and I got a single specimen of what was obviously a new species.”

The Wild West of Weevils: Entomologist Robert Anderson Discovers New Lifeforms in West Texas Robert Anderson, a senior research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, has journeyed from South America to Southeast Asia studying this group of insects. And in our region, he’s discovered creatures previously unknown to science, including some found nowhere else on Earth.