Turk - Frommers Texas. 2017

Frommers Star Ratings System

Every hotel, restaurant, and attraction listed in this guide has been ranked for quality and value. Heres what the stars mean:

AN IMPORTANT NOTE

The world is a dynamic place. Hotels change ownership, restaurants hike their prices, museums alter their opening hours, and busses and trains change their routings. And all of this can occur in the several months after our authors have visited, inspected, and written about, these hotels, restaurants, museums and transportation services. Though we have made valiant efforts to keep all our information fresh and up-to-date, some few changes can inevitably occur in the periods before a revised edition of this guidebook is published. So please bear with us if a tiny number of the details in this book have changed. Please also note that we have no responsibility or liability for any inaccuracy or errors or omissions, or for inconvenience, loss, damage, or expenses suffered by anyone as a result of assertions in this guide.

Kayaking on Lady Bird Lake in Austin.

CONTENTS

River Walk in San Antonio.

A Look at Texas

F or big and colorful, Texas is pretty hard to beat. The states outsize swagger speaks of the rootin-tootin Wild West, big oil, and oceans of prairie dotted with desert scrub. Texas sprawl is no clichthe second-largest state in the union stakes out a big footprint on the U.S. map, zigzagging through climate zones and eco-terrains, from high-country desert to breezy Gulf beaches to gentle hills blanketed in bluebonnets. But Texas is not just starry, big-sky landscapes. It is thoroughly 21st century, with shining cities sheathed in vertical steel and glass; cutting-edge art museums with world-class collections; and locavore farm-to-fork eateries blossoming in every corner of the state. The real Texas is here, but its also in the small-town fairs, the boot-scooting dance halls, the sizzling Tex-Mex fiestas. High, low; cool, hot: Texas does it all with a big dash of Lone Star panache.