Pecos Trail Region
Andrews
BUILT ON OIL The discovery of oil in the surrounding area has perhaps made the biggest impact on the community of Andrews, the only incorporated town in a county that bears the…
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Pecos Trail Region
Andrews
BUILT ON OIL The discovery of oil in the surrounding area has perhaps made the biggest impact on the community of Andrews, the only incorporated town in a county that bears the…
Pecos Trail Region
Balmorhea
Imagine an oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert with a view of the Davis Mountains, and you have Balmorhea. Clear waters from San Solomon Springs flow through town from its source at nearby…
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Big Lake
Big Lake once had a big lake, a 2,100-acre natural depression that filled with rain and spring water. For centuries it attracted Indians, Mexican traders and cattle drivers. After 1900 it attracted…
Pecos Trail Region
Brackettville
FRONTIER ARCHITECTURE Although a nearby replica of the Alamo has served as stand-in for the real thing in movies and commercials for the last fifty years, Brackettville needs no facsimile when it…
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Comstock
Comstock offers several nearby opportunities to view the Native American rock art seen throughout the Texas Pecos Trail Region. Rock shelters in lower Pecos River canyons serve as massive canvases for world-class…
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Crane
A roadside park several miles south of town on US 385 bears a state historical marker that marks one of the most important sites in the Old West. For centuries, Indians, soldiers…
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Del Rio
THE GROUND BELOW AND THE SKY ABOVE Del Rio, Val Verde County seat, is located near the confluence of the Rio Grande River and San Felipe Creek, a strategic spot in the…
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Eagle Pass
WHERE EAGLE’S FLY The Eagle Pass of the modern age arose from a much smaller settlement not too far downriver from its present location, a spot at the mouth of the Rio…
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Fort Stockton
STOCKTON REST STOP Historic Comanche Springs, once the third largest known source of spring water in Texas but dry by the 1960s due to excessive irrigation pumping, gave rise to Fort Stockton…
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Iraan
In 1926 an oil gusher blew in on Ira and Ann Yates’ remote Pecos County ranch. Oilfield workers flooded into a new town born overnight and named Iraan, a blend of the…
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Junction
Junction sits at the junction of the North and South Llano rivers, where the two spring-fed streams form the Llano River. Anchoring downtown is the 1929 Art Moderne Kimble County courthouse, designed…
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Kermit
Kermit can claim a “Kermit the Frog Boulevard.” But the seat of Winkler County actually was named for Pres. Teddy Roosevelt’s son, Kermit, who hunted antelope on a local ranch shortly before…
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Langtry
EAGLE NEST Once established, Langtry, a railroad grading camp linking the Southern Pacific with the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railway in 1882, quickly evolved into a rowdy, over-sized tent city crowded…
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McCamey
Large fields of wind turbines rise from high mesas surrounding McCamey. With blades up to 90 feet long these giant windmills convert wind power into clean energy, making McCamey the official "Wind…
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Midland
TEXAS TEA Midland may have begun as little more than a halfway point between big cities Dallas and El Paso along the Texas and Pacific Railway but its long-standing relationship with petroleum…
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Monahans
In 1881 Pat Monahan dug the first water well between the Pecos River and Big Spring. A community called Monahan's Well sprang up around his water tank. Almost half a century later…
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Odessa
HISTORY, WITH A SIDE ORDER OF FRIES You don’t always need to wind the clock back too far to enjoy Texas’ past. If you’re looking for history and authenticity but with a…
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Ozona
Crockett County covers nearly two million acres but has only one town, the vibrant county seat of Ozona. Pecan trees shade the quaint downtown square which boasts a bronze sculpture honoring pioneer…
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Pecos
WEST OF THE PECOS Hollywood might attempt to portray historic Pecos as a wild west community overrun by gunshot but this town was no less violent than most Texas settlements along the…
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Rankin
Another landmark hotel showcases area heritage in the seat of Upton County. Rancher Ira Yates became an overnight millionaire when oil blew in on his ranch in 1926. Within months, he built…
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Rocksprings
WATER FROM ROCK On the surface, nothing appears complicated about Rocksprings, a Texas Pecos Trail town along the Edwards Plateau. It’s description, circa 1892 courtesy of the Texas State Historical Association, could…
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Sanderson
The Southern Pacific Railroad built through Terrell County in 1882, and an ex-soldier and saloon keeper named Charlie Wilson established today’s Sanderson at a division point. When Judge Roy Bean (the Law…
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Sheffield
If you find yourself roaming along Interstate 10 in the southeastern corner of Pecos County, turn onto Texas 290, wind down a high mesa into the Pecos River valley and step back…
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Sonora
OUTLAWS AND ARCHITECTTS Seat of Sutton County, Sonora lays claim to the nearby Devil’s River more readily perhaps than other towns simply because it bestowed the river’s name to its oldest continuing…
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Stanton
As you drive into town, a large sign proclaims: “Welcome to Stanton, Home of 3,000 Friendly People and a Few Old Soreheads.” The town makes good on the friendly part of its…
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Sterling City
Sterling City was named for W.S. Sterling, a buffalo hunter and Indian fighter. Land for the new town was donated in January 1891 by R.C. Stewart, and was platted by H.B. Tarver…
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Wink
In 1926 wildcatters discovered oil near here, and ranchland turned into a boomtown almost overnight. Wink was a stable oil town by 1946 when a young musical prodigy named Roy Orbison moved…