Day Trips

FREDERICKSBURG, TX- The Fredericksburg Jaycees are excited to announce the return of their annual Fredericksburg Crawfish Festival to Fredericksburg Marktplatz on Memorial Day weekend, May 27-29. The festival will include many activities for the entire family including a variety of great Cajun food, live music, and a children’s carnival. Festival times are as follows: Friday 6pm to midnight, Saturday 11am-midnight, and Sunday noon to 6pm.

The Artists Alliance of the Hill Country (AAHC) is an art group that proudly sponsors the Annual Tour the Talent Art Studio Tour. This admission-free event highlights painters, jewelers, sculptors, and photographers with varied mediums and styles. Come out May 14th and 15th and enjoy the art and the hill country scenes while you get familiar with talented artists Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 4pm at 7 Art Studios.

What began over a quarter of a century ago as the brainstorm of Llano residents and a group of hunters from Beaumont has grown into quite the Cajun festival – and benefits local charities, too. The Llano Crawfish Open returns for its 27th year April 15-16 on the banks of the Llano River, and features plenty of crawfish and Cajun food, live music, a golf tournament, a motorcycle run, arts, crafts and much more, in what is a little fun for everyone. Cajun food is the big draw and what makes the ...

Wein and Saengerfest will stir your senses while uncorking good spirits. The full day festival hosts a variety of wines for sampling from Texas vineyards along with several German selections. For $15, you receive a commemorative wine glass and five tasting tickets to sample some of the best wines Texas has to offer.

Come to Bastrop the last weekend of April, April 29 – May 1 for Bastrop Festival Weekend. Bring the family for 3 days of fun starting Friday night; the Bastrop Family Rodeo Club will be hosting a United Professional Cowboys Association sanctioned rodeo at 7:30 at Mayfest Hill Park. Friday night’s rodeo will be Nurses Appreciation Night then at the Bastrop Opera House come enjoy some good ol’ country and gospel music by Terry Lyne Moore & the McMillans, 711 Spring Street. On Saturday f ...

Many riders from across the State and beyond will enjoy the Hill Country in a whole different way - astride a motorcycle - at the 20th Annual Hill Country Run motorcycle rally, which is headed to Luckenbach on May 6 – 8, 2016. This event is sponsored by the Optimist Club of Fredericksburg. Billed as "More than just a plain ole motorcycle rally,"

Dripping Spring, Texas – Happy festival-goers will soon return to Dripping Springs for the community’s annual hometown event and springtime celebration. The 29th Annual Founders Day Festival will be held April 22 – 24th as thousands of people converge on Dripping Springs’ historic downtown district for a festive celebration of heritage and pioneer spirit. The Annual Founders Day Festival honors the founding of Dripping Springs in 1850 by the Moss, Wallace, and Pound families a ...

The City of Coleman is a thriving and vibrant community in the heartland of Texas. Coleman is 52 miles southeast of Abilene on Hwy 84 and 52 miles north of Brady on Hwy 283, making it an easy trip from west or central Texas, as well as more metropolitan areas.

Beginning with one Oompah band on a flat-bed trailer sixteen years ago the festival has become an annual tradition in Tomball and one of the best music/street festivals in Texas. Every year, on the very last weekend in March, festival-goers break out their Lederhosen and Dirndls "Go German" for the area's largest festival celebrating the heritage of the original German families that settled this area beginning in about 1840.

There’s gonna be Mayhem on the Medina River! Scheduled for April 9th &10th. Gonna be a gunfight! That’s right! It’s the 3rd Annual Mayhem on the Medina, a competition with the National Reenactment Guild of America. Bandera has never turned down an opportunity to show off our cowboys! This time it is a bit different.