Easy Travel

Perfect Day Trips, 2.5 Hours or Less from Houston

Escape city life with a quick trip to one of these places.

08/20/2025 By Sofia Gonzalez

Eat, Drink, Hou

What to Eat, Drink, and Do in Houston This Weekend: August 8

Texas’s biggest cumbia block party, last visits to closing restaurants, and binge-watching a reboot—here are your Houston weekend plans.

08/08/2025 By Erica Cheng and Sofia Gonzalez

Wanna Get Away?

5 Weekend Vacations You Need to Take

From Mexico City to Nashville, here are cities where you can pack it all in on a Friday through Sunday (or a Monday if you’ve got vacation days to spare).

07/28/2021 By Gwendolyn Knapp, Laura Furr Mericas, and Catherine Wendlandt

Thanksgiving Edition

5 Things You Must Do This Weekend, Nov. 28-Dec. 1

Holiday lights, festive shows, and all kinds of perfectly good reasons to leave your house post-turkey.

11/28/2019 By Dianna Wray

Get Out

We're Going to These 5 Weekend Events and You Should Too

From the Bayou City Arts Fest to two exceptional ballets, the last weekend of March isn't meant for streaming Netflix.

03/22/2017 By Jeanne Lyons Davis

Baggage

Working for the Weekender

There's no piece of luggage that symbolizes vacation bliss quite like the weekender.

05/22/2015 By Sarah Rufca Nielsen