Lowell Thomas Awards Dinner 2024

Join our Honorary Hosts—all recipients of the Club’s highest honor, The Explorers Medal—along with extraordinary explorers from around the world, to celebrate the 2024 Lowell Thomas Awardees.

June 2024 Quarterly Meeting

Please save Saturday, June 1st for our next Explorers Club quarterly meeting. It will be held at the Headliners Club in Austin, starting at 6:00 pm for cocktails followed by dinner and a program [...]

Indigenous People of Alaska

Allen Tuten, long a student of the history and culture of Alaskan native people, will share his knowledge and enthusiasm in his talk scheduled for Thursday, April 18, at 5 p.m. in the Union [...]

Join us for an outdoor field trip to “Bracken Cave, 20 Million Bats”Join us for an outdoor field trip to Bracken Cave!

If you are unfamiliar Bracken Cave is the largest bat population, and one of the largest known concentrations of mammals in the world. Every summer 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats come to [...]

Explorers Club Texas Quarterly Meeting

Final Sign-up Deadline 1:00PM Wednesday March 23rd. You’re Invited to the Explorers Club Texas Quarterly Meeting in Austin on March 26th, 2022 “Extinction May Not Be Inevitable” Trained Dog and [...]

Texas State Capitol Tour

In November, West and Lizet Hansen arranged and sponsored a special Explorers Club Texas tour of the Texas State Capitol. The tour guide presented the history of the amazing capital structure [...]

Paleo Palooza!

Dr. Tony Fiorillo, V.P. and Chief Curator of the Perot Museum led a tour at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose. We learned that there are literally thousands of tracks in the Paluzy River [...]

Film Screening: “Cosmic Birth – We went to the Moon, but discovered Earth”

Movie Cosmic Birth For millennia humans have looked up and admired the Moon. Between 1968 and 1972, the Apollo program brought twenty-four American astronauts into lunar orbit – twelve of whom [...]