In case your New Yr’s decision is to journey extra in 2026, CultureMap has you lined with seven newly opened resorts, offers, and enjoyable occasions occurring round Texas in January.
San Antonio wanderers can take pleasure in a free music pageant in Austin, verify in at a newly opened Houston Heights resort, or keep native by exploring the expansive collections a famed artwork museum.
Listed here are our high picks for January Texas journey occasions, resort information, and extra.
In Austin
Donation-based pageant Free Week is returning to Austin’s famed Pink River Cultural District (RRCD) from January 9-10. This yr’s festivities will embrace performances from over 80 musicians and bands at 13 completely different venues throughout each days. CultureMap has additionally compiled an inventory of our must-see artist picks. Native eating places are additionally pitching in with meals and beverage offers in the course of the pageant. Donations and a proportion of meals and beverage gross sales will profit the cultural district, which can doll out funds to artists who play, grants to the venues, and different help and preservation initiatives all year long.
The Ruby Resort & Bar in Spherical Rock is kicking off the brand new yr with a particular stress-free deal for January and February stays, by way of its “Getaway & Decompress” package deal. Visitors who ebook a two-night keep utilizing the code “GETAWAY” will obtain a 15 p.c low cost, and a “serenity-inducing” Candy Desires sleep equipment that features an eye fixed masks, pillow mist, and leisure balm. Room charges start at $129 per night time, and reservations could be booked on-line or by way of cellphone.
Room reservations are actually out there on the Inn at Inexperienced Pastures, a just lately opened resort in Austin’s Bouldin Creek neighborhood on the identical historic property as Southern restaurant Mattie’s. The three-story inn options 63 visitor rooms (together with 9 suites), a non-public pool, lounge, bar, and a model new restaurant known as Henry’s Nite & Day. Nightly charges on the Inn at Inexperienced Pastures begin at $395.
In Houston
Houston is beginning the brand new yr with a model new resort: Resort Daphne just lately opened within the Heights, boasting 49 visitor rooms throughout a five-story constructing. It additionally options an all-day, Italian-inspired restaurant known as Hypsi, a vine-wrapped courtyard and patio, jewel-box library, foyer retail store, and a powerful artwork assortment. However essentially the most magnificent options of the property are the quite a few mature Dwell Oak timber which have remained undisturbed in the course of the resort’s building. Charges at Resort Daphne start at $359 per night time.
Resort Daphne introduces subtle classic aptitude to The Heights. Photograph by Julie Soefer
At residence in San Antonio
9 historic artifacts beforehand housed on the San Antonio Museum of Artwork (SAMA) have just lately been returned to their rightful properties in Italy, however there’s nonetheless loads of time to admire eight extra items earlier than they, too, are returned to the Italian authorities in 2030. The museum additionally options artwork from all around the world, together with items from pre-1500s America. Admission is free for SAMA members and for youngsters aged 12 and beneath, and tickets are $24 for adults with extra reductions for seniors (65-plus), army, and college students.
In Dallas-Fort Price
The Fort Price Inventory Present & Rodeo is gearing up for its 2026 extravaganza on January 16, with 23 days filled with action-packed livestock and horse reveals, dwell music, a carnival, purchasing alternatives, and a lot extra. The primary occasions are the every day rodeos at Dickies Area, together with the Better of the West Ranch Rodeo, Better of Mexico Celebración, Cowboys of Colour Rodeo, and Bulls Evening Out Excessive Bull Using. Rodeo ticket costs fluctuate by occasion and date, however there are a lot of methods to get reductions for the Inventory Present.
It is almost time to don your finest cowboy hat and boots and experience as much as Fort Price. Photograph courtesy of the Fort Price Inventory Present & Rodeo
The Arlington Museum of Artwork is celebrating beloved writer Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with a particular exhibition that includes costumes and jewellery from movie diversifications of two of Austen’s most iconic works: Pleasure and Prejudice (2005) and Emma (2020). The exhibit, Dressed for the Drawing Room: Vogue in Jane Austen’s World, will run from January 9 to March 22. In contrast to the ticketed Sport of Thrones exhibit, which can be on view on the museum, Dressed for the Drawing Room is free to go to. Attendees solely must pay for parking ($10 per automotive).
