Guadalupe Mountains National Park - Salt Flat TX
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Don.Morfe
N 31° 53.664 W 104° 49.300
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The Guadalupe Mountains National Park Visitor Center is located at 400 Pine Canyon Road, Salt Flat TX 79847.
Waymark Code: WM18XF0
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/16/2023
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From the Guadalupe Mountains National Park website:
Guadalupe Mountains National Park was authorized by an act of Congress (Public Law 89-667) in 1966 to preserve “an area possessing outstanding geological values together with scenic and other natural values of great significance.” The park was formally established in 1972 with an area of 76,293 acres.
Today, Guadalupe Mountains National Park includes 86,416 acres in west Texas, just south of the New Mexico state line and north of U.S. Highway 62/180. The Guadalupe Mountains rise more than 3,000 feet above the arid Chihuahuan Desert that surrounds them. El Capitan, the park’s most striking feature, is a 1,000-foot-high limestone cliff. Nearby Guadalupe Peak, 8,751 feet above sea level, is the highest point in Texas.
The cultural history of the Guadalupe Mountains includes native peoples and successive waves of European American explorers, travelers, and emigrants. Although Spanish explorers passed through the area in 1692, the arid desert and remote highlands of the Guadalupe Mountains were the domain of American Indian peoples until the mid-1800s. Gradually, explorers and pioneers entered the area and navigated using the distinctive landmark of the Guadalupes. In 1858 the Butterfield Overland Stage Line began carrying mail and passengers through the Guadalupe Mountains on the nation’s first transcontinental mail route.
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