About Best of Texas
Independently reported, obsessively ranked guides to eating, swimming, driving and wandering across all 254 Texas counties.
Best of Texas started in 2019 as an argument about barbecue that got out of hand. Six years later it is a small newsroom that ranks things across all 254 counties, supported by readers, including commissions from travel bookings.
Booking commissions from Stay22, GetYourGuide and Viator help pay for our guides. Businesses cannot pay for a place in a ranking. We set our rankings before adding booking links. Commission rates do not affect who we include or where they rank. Read our booking-link policy.
We are not a listicle farm. Every guide names its reporting method, cites its sources, and sets out criteria you can read and disagree with. Field visits are paid for by us; desk-researched guides say so plainly. Here is exactly how we work.
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