TX 26 continues on Belknap Street, heading northeast into Richland Hills.

Eponymously titled Boulevard 26, the route proceeds into North Richland Hills, passing its city hall and moving under I-820.

TX 26 connects with the southern terminus of FM 1938 and continues northeast, diagonally reaching local arterial roads and passing through the suburbs of Hurst and Colleyville.

This intersection forms the southern terminus of the former Loop 382, still signed as a business route of TX 114.

SH 26 designated on July 2, 1917 as a short route from Tyler through Henderson to Nacogdoches.

On April 4, 1980, it was redesignated along the Spur 452 and the old route of SH 121 from Haltom City to I-820, then northeastward through Colleyville and Grapevine.

[6] It was extended south to Carthage by 1926 over part of SH 8, which was rerouted farther east.