Regional guides written by people who live here — rivers, road trips, festivals, and small-town finds.
New Braunfels · Outdoors
The Comal is often called the shortest major river in Texas — about two and a half miles from the Comal Springs to where it joins the Guadalupe — and nearly all of it is floatab…
New Braunfels · Live Music · Food & Drink
Gruene was a company cotton town in the 1870s, went quiet after the boll weevil and the Depression, and was rediscovered nearly intact a century later. Today it is the most atmo…
New Braunfels · Outdoors
The Guadalupe below Canyon Lake dam is the big-water float of Central Texas: cypress-lined banks, limestone bluffs, and a string of small rapids threaded along the twelve miles …
New Braunfels · Family · Free Fun
New Braunfels might be the best family town in Texas: two swimmable rivers, a legendary waterpark, a drive-through safari, a real cave, and a children's museum — all within twen…
New Braunfels · Outdoors · Family · Live Music
New Braunfels sits at the meeting point of two spring-fed rivers, halfway between San Antonio and Austin, with German roots that go back to 1845. That mix — river town, dance-ha…
New Braunfels · Festivals · Food & Drink · Live Music
Every November since 1961, New Braunfels throws a ten-day "Salute to Sausage" on the edge of Landa Park — polka bands, potato pancakes, pitchers of German beer, and a town that …
The taco truck everyone sleeps on, the swimming hole only locals know — tell us and we'll check it out for a future guide.
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