Last Updated: May 2026
We pulled out of Grapevine heading south toward Texas Hill Country for wine tasting, and Waco made sense as a two-night stop along the way. It was a practical choice that turned into something considerably more interesting. Waco has been quietly accumulating things worth seeing — a lakeside Army Corps of Engineers campground that ranks among the best we’ve used, the Magnolia Silos complex that Chip and Joanna Gaines built into a destination, and a National Monument that preserves one of the most remarkable prehistoric discoveries in North America. We arrived knowing about one of those three. We left glad we’d stopped.
