West Texas Places

Alpine and Marfa
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
If what you want is a quick and easy Mexican experience, Juárez is worth a day's excursion. There are any number of goods to buy, and tastes to taste, but it's a border town at the very end of it... (more)
Del Rio
The town of Del Rio has always lived on the edge—the edge of the Texas-Mexico border, the edge of Texas's Hill Country, and on the corner of the natural-spring brightened Edwards Plateau. This town... (more)
El Paso
Fabled El Paso, just barely in Texas and in fact on Mountain Time (rather than Central), was at one time part of the New Mexico Territory. It is still an important crossing point for those entering from... (more)
Fort Davis Area
Lake Amistad
In a West Texas/Mexico heat that sizzles, it's comforting to slip into the silken waters of Lake Amistad, or simply to picnic along the waters. Surrounded by sheer limestone cliffs that sheltered waves... (more)
Midland-Odessa
The oil crazy city of Midland during the '80s could well have been the setting for TV's "Dallas." Many of its surrounding fields are lined with pumpjacks, iron devices that resemble sipping-bird toys as... (more)
San Angelo
In the late 1800s the all-black regiments known respectfully by American Indians as the Buffalo Soldiers kept travelers and settlers in West Texas safe from attack by hostile Indian tribes. The protection... (more)

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