Passport to Texas

Have fun with family and friends when you participate in the Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt!

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This is Passport to Texas

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but an experience is priceless. Get your experience on with The Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt, or GOSH.

It’s a fun framework in which to go and see and do.

Nathan Adams is art director for TPW Magazine, which is where you will find a list of 30 locations that feature Texas’ natural wonders, history, wildlife, water and fringes. Participation is as easy as taking a selfie.

Everyone’s got their phone with the all the time. So, you would go to one of these locations, and there are instructions for what to take a selfie of. We want to see you and we want to see whatever the location is; we want to see that present also. And so you would go to that location and take a picture of yourself.

Then upload the images to social media, or to a portal on the website with the hashtag: #GOSHTX. They’ll be added to a gallery where you can see what others are doing. Nathan hopes some friendly competition will arise.

I would love it if Texas A & M would challenge UT. Or, Texas State and Texas Tech would get involved. I would hope that this would encourage some competition among people. Yeah.

Find complete details for the Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt in the May issue of TPW magazine—on newsstands now—and the TPW website.

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For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

No matter where you live in Texas, you can participate in the Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt.

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This is Passport to Texas

Through Labor Day, The Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt—or GOSH—inspires you to discover the natural wonders, wildlife, water, history and fringes of Texas.

I would want to make sure everyone knows that no matter where in Texas you live, there’s at least one thing on this list that’s close to you. And probably more. So we want everyone to participate. This should not feel exclusive, this should feel very inclusive.

Nathan Adams is art director for TPW Magazine; along with the website and magazine APP, it provides the GOSH guide, which includes 30 tasks to encourage exploration and discovery of Texas’ best.

If you complete all of the tasks in any given location, then you’ll get a certificate that we’ll email to you that you can print out; and if you’re crazy enough all the way—get them all—then you’ll get a different certificate [you’re a “Gosher” par excellence] and you’ll get a two-year digital subscription to the magazine.

To participate, go to the sites, take selfies of you and your crew and then upload the images to social media, or to a portal on the website with the hashtag: #GOSHTX.

So, I’m hoping people will discover things didn’t know existed in Texas. But mostly I’m hoping that people will just have a good time being outdoors.

Find complete details for the Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt in the May issue of TPW magazine—on newsstands now—and the TPW website.

We receive support from RAM Trucks: Built to Serve.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

Get the family outside and participate in the Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt.

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This is Passport to Texas

Is this how summer vacation usually goes at your home?

I’m bored. What are we gonna do? Summer vacation’s great for about the first ten days; then it’s drudgery for the next two months.

Nathan Adams is art director for TPW Magazine. He says this year will be made different…by G.O.S.H.

GOSH stands for the Great Outdoor Scavenger Hunt.

The May issue of TPW magazine, the website and APP has a list of GOSH locations. Use your smart phone to snap selfies at the sites listed.

What makes it unique, in part, is just the size and the scope of the state of Texas. There’s so much out here to see and do. And so, we wanted to find a way to encourage people to experience the history, the nature, the wildlife, the water features—just all of Texas. And, a scavenger hunt—let’s be honest—it’s a gimmick. But it’s a fun framework in which to go and see and do.

Instructions for what to include in your selfies are in the magazine, online and in the APP. Upload images to social media, or to a portal on the website with the #GOSHTX.

And then we’ll be collating those into a gallery where you can see what other people are doing, or collect what you’re doing, and keep track of your progress, and see how many of these locations you can hit over the summer.

Find all details at tpwmagazine.com.

We receive support from RAM Trucks: Built to Serve.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.