This is the Texas chapter from Lonely Planet’s USA guidebook.

Cue the theme music, and make it something epic: Texas is as big and sweeping a state as can be imagined. If it were a country, it would be the 40th largest. And as big as it is geographically, it is equally large in people’s imaginations.

• Scoot across a well-worn wooden floor at Texas' oldest dance hall in Gruene.
• maps
• Remember The Alamo, a historical shrine to the men who fought for Texas independence.
• transport
• restaurants & accommodation
• State capital Austin beguiles with loads of live music and funky food trucks galore.

Coverage includes: South-Central Texas, Austin, Around Austin, Hill Country, San Antonio, Houston, Around Houston, Southern Gulf Coast, Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Corpus Christi & Around, South Padre Island, The Valley, Dallas-Fort Worth, Dallas, Fort Worth, West Texas, West Of Big Bend National Park, Central West Texas, El Paso, Hueco Tanks State Historic Site, Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park.