What goes on /out/ here
>>2844424fishin' shootin' drinkin'
>>2844424Too hot, too many skeeters, pretty good in spring but the other seasons suck.t. Centex born n raised.
>>2844424Wiggers and witches
>>2844424Really bad weather 8 months out of the year. Temp’s are still in the 90’s there, and it’s not like you can run off into the mountains for a weekend where lapse effect causes a 10° drop. It’s just hot all the time.There’s a lack of public land considering the enormous population (and even more so considering the size of the state). Way, WAY too many people. Urban sprawl is insane. The beaches are mostly terrible and the water is nasty. This is objectively true. Sediment and contamination from the Mississippi River flows west. Florida panhandle beaches are closer to the mouth of the river yet remain pristine. You’ve got to go pretty far south for nice Texas beaches. The east and southeast part of the state (behind the Pine Curtain) are more like what you’d picture Louisiana to look like. There are cypress swamps, marshes, and calm rivers. Really great fiahing and kayaking… but it’s Texas so everyone has a bass boat with a 300hp motor and a matching trailer, which justifies the purchase of their all-new GMC Sierra Texas Edition 2500 HD McDouble. A lot of the state is some kind of flat scrub brush prairie wasteland. It’s an interesting ecosystem, but driving across it you just look around and don’t see anything. No buildings, no vehicles, no cattle, no farms. Just empty land. Pretty comfy at night but hard to enjoy because it’s all privately held. The off-shore fishing is phenomenally great, like top-tier. Fish congregate near oil rigs, and it’s very common to fish near them. Texas probably has the highest population of white tail in the country. The number of feral hogs is insane.
>>2844424Boomer rancher larp autism and drug cartels
>>2844543>which justifies the purchase of their all-new GMC Sierra Texas Edition 2500 HD McDouble.The huwhite man's version of hood rich
>>2844424rattlesnakes, water moccasins, copperheads, alligators, scorpions, and flying scorpions.
>>2844424Big Bend and that is it. Anything else is not worthwhile unless you live there and need something to do.
>>2844661LBJ Grasslands is decent if you live in DFW. No target shooting but you can hunt and the trails are always empty
>>2844424Some of the best saltwater fishing in the country. Really, really good birding that can be done on public land. Pretty good hunting if you know what you're doing. Good opportunities for kayaking. Some hiking but the topography is not really that interesting. Its a really good state if you're a sportsman. Its one of the worst if you're more into hiking or off-trail camping.
>>2844424The most private land in the US.
The ratio of good publicly accessible outdoor locations to population/land area is unfortunately low and skews westwards away from the busy triangle and interstates, which filters enough normies that the reputation is actually much lower than it deserves. It's always surprising how most people genuinely unaware that a state with 10+ mountain ranges has any mountains at all, or that the actual representative plant is the prickly pear and not a saguaro, especially when the state is so famous world wide. You will find a lot of ignorance and misrepresentation on this topic because people are sharing their impressions from driving down I35 or visiting Dallas once and thinking that it's representative of 260k+ sq miles of land.The ecoregions are interesting and quite diverse, however this crossroads diversity is actually the state's principle downfall outdoor scenery-wise as you can find "better" versions of each biome in the adjacent territory (better swamps in Louisiana, better sky islands in New Mexico, better sierra oriental in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon). The only exception to this in my mind is the Hill Country, which perhaps represents the most finely distilled Texas landscape qua Texas landscape – but sadly, at this point, too overly-developed and drought-stricken to be a genuine outdoors destination, more of a river tubing and cultural town-hopping destination now.Regardless, there is a distinct charm to the unique blends of biome you can discover: sky islands that are half Mexico and half classic American West, swaths of Hill Country that are half Ozarks and half Chihuahuan desert. This charm has a way of taking hold over people, myself included. It's kind of like a reverse of the "bigger in Texas" slogan, where Texas is wide enough to hold other pieces of land in miniature – the Davis Mountains, for instance, are like a smaller, quainter, but eerily similar copy of the Santa Rita Mountains in Arizona. Pic is public land in the Hill Country in December
>>2846421Here is my concrete recommendation for people interested in seeing what makes Texas unique:>Rent a car with 4 wheel drive, fly into austin or san antonio>Rent a bike and do mission reach trail, starting with Mission Concepcion and working down to Espada>Visit Presidio La Bahia in Goliad>cut across to San Ygnacio near the RGV, to see the Treviño-Uribe ranch>keep driving north along the border, visit Republic of the Rio Grande Museum in Laredo and Los Regios Mexican Restaurant >Drive north and away from border to Frio Town Cemetery outside Pearsall>Up to Ruins of St Dominic Catholic Church in D'Hanis, and the D'Hanis Clay Products brick foundry>Continue to Garner State Park>Then drive to Rocksprings, visit historic town center>Then from there drive to Devils River State Natural Area>Then drive down to Del Rio and visit Cemetario Loma de la Cruz and Whitehead Memorial Museum>Go west on highway 90 to Roy Bean Museum in Langtry >Do the Cactus Capital hike in Sanderson>in Marathon get BBQ and supplies from French Grocer>Drive down to Big Bend and do hikes and/or camp in the Chisos Basin, other Big Bend stuff>Leave by driving FM170 west along the border>Outside Presidio, stop at Fort Leaton>keep driving on FM170 for hours until you hit the town of Candelaria >congrats you've reached the edge of the map>turn around and go back to Rudiosa, check out the Sacred Heart Church>Drive Pinto Canyon Road / FM2810 up to Marfa>Continue on into Fort Davis>Drive 118 up to McDonald Observatory>Continue on and do Davis Mountains Preserve hike at the picnic area, or visit preserve if it's an open weekend (recommended)>Continue up the road until you hit I10>Take I10 east and exit for Balmorhea State Park in Toyahvale>Take I10 east back to airport in Austin or San Antonio >(optional last stop) Swim/hike at South Llano state park in JunctionIt's a lot of stuff, you could pick and choose, but it's also missing many other highlights. Just a sample.
>>2844424East Texas has some real nice forestlands.Kinda hot and sticky and humid tho.
You say you're not from Texas Man as if I couldn't tell...
>>2846463Even Moses got excited when he saw the promised land
>>2844543By and large I agree with this, especially the bit about urban sprawl. Despite our large acreage I'm convinced that Texas is going to become the first state to become one giant horrible Judge Dredd style megacity due to the way the state's tax structure works. The bit about the beaches is also on point, Galveston is a shithole. I remember Port Aransas and Corpus Christi being nice but I stopped going in the '90s when my grandparents died so IDK what they're like now. As a young adult I used to live in East Texas in the spooky pine forests which I liked but even in the middle of nowhere land isn't particularly cheap because the area's awash in oil money, both old & new. The only reason I still live in this state is because it's where all my friends are, I have no idea why 10k people are moving here every minute.
>>2844424Nothing. Too much private land and not really good nature. So /out/ fuckers just sit on their private land.
>>2844543This has been my experience.>t. Born and raised here. Grew up in Fort Worth. Lived in Dallas and Austin. Currently reside in Cedar Park.>>2846421The hill country seems inaccessible. Like it's all privately own by Californians, the slivers of public land have little to no parking, and the weather is oppressive 4 out of 5 days of the year.>>2846422The only things I've been to or even heard of from this are Marfa, Fort Davis, and McDonald's, which have their charm, but are extremely underwhelming compared to similar destinations in the rest of the country.
>>2844424My sibling lives in Texas and has nothing nice to say about it. No public land, hot and buggy. Last place I'd ever move.
