Texas Named One of Best States for Summer Road Trips

If you're looking to take a road trip this summer and live in the state of Texas, you're in luck. We have one of the best states for summer road trips. WalletHub recently ranked all the states from best to worst in regards to road trips. Here is the full list:

1. New York
2. TEXAS
3. Louisiana
4. Maine
5. North Carolina
6. Minnesota
7. Utah
8. Illinois
9. Michigan
10. Wisconcin
11. Washington
12. Idaho
13. Nevada
14. Vermont
15. Florida
16. Georgia
17. Ohio
18. Pennsylvania
19. Colorado
20. Nebraska
21. New Hampshire
22. Wyoming
23. Iowa
24. Oregon
25. Virginia
26. Massachusetts
27. Arizona
28. Oklahoma
29. North Dakota
30. West Virginia
31. California
32. South Dakota
33. Missouri
34. Indiana
35. Alaska
36. Kentucky
37. Maryland
38. Tennessee
39. South Carolina
40. Kansas
41. New Jersey
42. Mississippi
43. NEW MEXICO
44. Alabama
45. Montana
46. Arkansas
47. Hawaii
48. Connecticut
49. Delaware
50. Rhode Island

So what are the criteria that put Texas toward the top of the list?

• Lowest average gas prices. Texas comes in 3rd behind Louisiana and Mississippi

Aaannnddd, that was it. That's the only criteria that Texas made the top 5 in. But here are the other criteria that were used to make this list.

• Lowest average cost of car repairs
• Lowest price of camping
• Fewest car thefts per capita
• Highest percent of total area designated as national parkland
• Most scenic byways

One of the main aspects of road trips for me has to do with the kind of weather you're going to run into while on the road. Texas during the summer usually has pretty decent weather. Although you will run into the occasional thunder storm which can be a pain and there will also be a dust storm every now and then. My wife and I just made the trip to Austin this past weekend and we ran into a few patches on the way back to El Paso where visibility wasn't the best. It wasn't bad enough to get us to pull over, but there were a couple times it felt like it might get to that.