Texas roadtrips
Data Freshness: August 24, 2026 Where this comes from
This map carries 20 Texas drives, from 20 miles to 279, and every one of them says what is on the way before you set off.
Questions People Ask
Which Texas drive has the most places to stop?
Dallas to San Antonio — 443 within 10 miles of the route, over 279 miles of driving.
How were these drives chosen?
By hand. Every pair of the towns this map carries has a real driving route baked into it — 351 of them — and measured, every single pair has at least six stops within 10 miles. A threshold picks nothing out, so somebody picked the drives people actually make instead.
How far off the route does a stop count?
10 miles, measured to the nearest point on the real driving line rather than in a straight line from either end. Each drive's page says exactly how far off each stop sits.
The Facts
- 20 drives on this map, from 20 miles (Austin to Round Rock) to 279 (Dallas to San Antonio).
- Dallas to San Antonio is the busiest — 443 stops along 279 miles, which is one every 0.6 miles.
- Dallas to Frisco is the emptiest — 93 stops in 23 miles.
- The longest stretch with nothing on it is 60 miles, on the drive from San Antonio to Laredo, between Cotulla and Laredo.
- 4130 stops in all, counted across every drive here, though a store on two routes is counted on both — these are drives, not a roster.
The Texas Triangle
The three-city triangle most of Texas drives, and the six ways across it.
- Dallas to Houston 304 stops · 248 miles · 4h 28mMoreFind 'Em
- Dallas to Austin 262 stops · 202 miles · 3h 40mMoreFind 'Em
- Dallas to San Antonio 443 stops · 279 miles · 5h 03mMoreFind 'Em
- Houston to Austin 283 stops · 161 miles · 3h 05mMoreFind 'Em
- Houston to San Antonio 351 stops · 197 miles · 3h 36mMoreFind 'Em
- Austin to San Antonio 267 stops · 83 miles · 1h 41mMoreFind 'Em
Major routes
The long hauls out of the triangle — to the coast, the border, the piney woods.
- Dallas to Waco 103 stops · 106 miles · 1h 59mMoreFind 'Em
- Austin to Waco 187 stops · 102 miles · 1h 57mMoreFind 'Em
- Houston to College Station 222 stops · 84 miles · 1h 42mMoreFind 'Em
- Austin to College Station 129 stops · 110 miles · 2h 12mMoreFind 'Em
- Houston to Beaumont 182 stops · 90 miles · 1h 48mMoreFind 'Em
- Dallas to Tyler 110 stops · 103 miles · 2h 00mMoreFind 'Em
- Houston to Corpus Christi 236 stops · 211 miles · 4h 13mMoreFind 'Em
- San Antonio to Corpus Christi 181 stops · 153 miles · 2h 45mMoreFind 'Em
- San Antonio to Laredo 162 stops · 162 miles · 2h 52mMoreFind 'Em
Short trips
An hour or less, and the kind of drive where knowing what is on the way still saves a stop.
- San Antonio to New Braunfels 161 stops · 34 miles · 44mMoreFind 'Em
- Dallas to Fort Worth 117 stops · 35 miles · 47mMoreFind 'Em
- Dallas to Frisco 93 stops · 23 miles · 30mMoreFind 'Em
- Austin to Round Rock 133 stops · 20 miles · 30mMoreFind 'Em
- Houston to The Woodlands 204 stops · 35 miles · 49mMoreFind 'Em