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Places worth the detour in Texas

Detourmap lists 106 places in Texas, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Big Bend National Park. 90 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological64 Nature42
Places
106
Oldest
Mission Nuestra Señora del Rosario 1754
Little known
90 of 106
Share of United States
3%

Texas 106

All 106, best known first.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Utah179 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 North Carolina104 Hawaii86

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Texas?

Big Bend National Park, 20th century. U.S. national park located in Southern Texas, bordering Mexico. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Texas?

106: 64 archaeological & historic sites and 42 nature & landscapes. 90 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Texas?

Mission Nuestra Señora del Rosario, dated to 1754. 22 of the 106 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Texas here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Texas if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Texas is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.