Guadalupe Mountains Mystique - Texas Highways, October 2016

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Come along as renowned photographer Laurence Parent explores autumn’s arrival in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, a stunning West Texas landscape of peaks, canyons, forests, and dunes.

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The season of pumpkins, hauntings, and trick-or-treating has a firm grip on Texans’ collective imagination, judging by the ghoulish gamut of fun and frightful Halloween happenings across the state.

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The sugar skulls of "Dia de los Muertos" http://www.texashighways.com/culture-lifestyle/item/8284-lost-and-found-sugar-skulls-dia-de-los-muertos, hiking Lewisville Lake http://www.texashighways.com/outdoors/item/8285-nature-by-day-or-night-lewisville-lake-environmental-learning-area by night, Seguin’s haunted Magnolia Hotel http://www.texashighways.com/travel/item/8286-hauntings-and-history, food trucks and friezes in Graham http://www.texashighways.com/travel/item/8287-exploring-graham, Rockport’s Boiling Pot http://www.texashighways.com/food-drink/item/8288-some-like-it-hot-rockport-the-boiling-pot, the Hill Country Beer Trail http://www.texashighways.com/food-drink/item/8289-whats-brewing-in-the-hill-country-beer-trail, wheels and meals in Weatherford http://www.texashighways.com/food-drink/item/8290-wheels-and-meals-vintage-grill-car-museum-weatherford, the Houston Theater District http://www.texashighways.com/culture-lifestyle/item/8297-performance-aplenty-houston-theater-district, the prehistoric Clovis culture http://www.texashighways.com/culture-lifestyle/item/8294-ancient-pioneers-clovis-culture, an Alpine http://www.texashighways.com/daytripper/item/8292-daytripper-alpine day trip, and an interview with Ruthie Foster http://www.texashighways.com/people/item/8293-fostering-the-blues-ruthie-foster.

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