Somewhere around the first week of November, Texas finally exhales. The mornings turn crisp, the afternoons finally ease up, and the idea of sitting outside after dark stops sounding like punishment. It’s the season Texans wait all year for, and most of us spend it indoors.
It doesn’t have to go that way. Within a few hours of Dallas there are forests, cypress swamps, sandstone canyons and maple-lined creeks that look their best right now, and you don’t need a plane ticket or a week off to reach them. You don’t even need to sleep on the ground unless you want to.
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