Category: America- Southwest

Prior Posting: Pine Tree Trail – Part 1 _____________________________________________________________ As I continued my ascent up the Organ Mountains the scenery on this craggy peaks continued to amaze me. 

Southern New Mexico’s Organ Mountains are well known for their ruggedness, which has caused many of the mountains’ peaks to be inaccessible due to steep rock faces these

Just a short distance from the summit of San Augustin Pass, which crosses New Mexico’s Organ Mountains, is the turn off to the Aguirre Springs Campground.  The drive

The Organ Mountains to the east of Las Cruces, New Mexico are extremely rugged, which makes traveling across the mountains historically very difficult.  In fact there is only

A really interesting place that most people in El Paso have never visited is the National Border Patrol Museum located just off of Transmountain Road on the northeast

A place of interest in El Paso that many locals have not visited and drive right past is the Wilderness Park & Museum of Archaeology located right off

Quite possibly the most visited location in the Franklin Mountains State Park located in El Paso, Texas is the scenic McKelligon Canyon: The turn off to the canyon

Picture of the sunrise over El Paso, Texas and the distant Hueco Mountains as seen from the east side of the Franklin Mountains.

Sunrise over the Franklin Mountains as seen from the desert behind my neighborhood in El Paso, Texas.

This is a picture of the sun rising over eastern El Paso, Texas as seen from the slopes of the Franklin Mountains.