Keep the white sands but escape spring break crowds on Mississippi's Bay St. Louis Beach. Five U.S. states are lucky enough to have a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi ...

With more than 350 miles of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico's teal and emerald water, Texas is home to plenty of beach vacation options. In fact, the state's beach towns offer some of the top ...

Travelers in Texas looking for a lonely stretch of beach in the Gulf of Mexico to call their own for a few hours, a long weekend, or even longer, need only set their GPS to an off-the-radar ...

Regardless of your budget and interests, these stretches of sand overlooking the Gulf of Mexico ... Texas' southern tip, South Padre Island (nicknamed SPI) offers up 34 miles of white sand beaches ...

On a windy Galveston beach, Joanie Steinhaus kneels in the sand, carefully examining the wrack line where organic debris ...

The many-ribbed jellyfish can grow up to seven inches across and has delicate tentacles surrounding its bell. On the ...

Keep the white sands but escape spring break crowds on Mississippi's Bay St. Louis Beach. Five U.S. states are lucky enough to have a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi ...