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Cowboy CountryA West Texas Trip Itinerary
For Tour Groups Looking for the Experience of a Lifetime
Discover a beautiful and unique part of the great state of Texas
We’ll See Y’all Soon!www.WestTexasTrip.com
For a One-Stop-Shop to book this tour or create a custom itinerary, please contact:
Abilene CVB - Nanci Liles, (800)727-7704, [email protected] - www.abilenevisitors.com Denton CVB - Dana Lodge, (940)382-7895, [email protected] - www.discoverdenton.comEl Paso CVB - Leesy McCorgary, [email protected] - www.elpasocvb.comFort Davis CVB - Lisa Nugent, (800)524-3015, [email protected] - www.fortdavis.comFort Worth CVB - Estela Martinez-Stuart, (800)433-5747, [email protected] - www.fortworth.comGranbury CVB - Charlie McIlvain, (817)573-5548, [email protected] - www.granburytx.comLubbock CVB - Leslie Mathews, (806)747-5232, [email protected] - www.VisitLubbock.orgMidland CVB - Brenda Kissko, (800)624-6435, [email protected] - www.VisitMidlandTexas.comOdessa CVB - Linda Sweatt, (432)333-7871, [email protected] - www.Odessacvb.comSan Angelo CVB - Pamela Miller, (325)655-4136, [email protected] - www.visitsanangelo.orgVisit Big Bend - Mike Davidson, (432)837-3915, [email protected]
For more information on Heritage Trails in Texas, please contact:Texas Forts Trail - Margaret Hoogstra, (325)795-1762, [email protected] Lakes Trail - Jill Campbell, (817)559-2288, [email protected] Mountain Trail - Beth Nobles, (432)284-0002, [email protected] Pecos Trail - (325) 387-2927 - [email protected] Plains Trail - Deborah Sue McDonald, (806)231-3479, [email protected]
Cowboy CountryThe First in a series of West Texas Trip Itineraries
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JulyWill Roger’s Range Riders Rodeo - Amarillo National Cowboy Day - San Angelo & Fort WorthCoolest 4th - Fort Davis
AugustNational Cutting Horse Association Summer Cutting Spectacular - Fort WorthAPI Roping - MidlandRemuda Quarter Horse Show - MidlandBig Bend Ranch Rodeo - AlpineMeeting of the John Wesley Hardin Secret Society/Concordia Cemetery - El PasoThe XIT Rodeo and Reunion - DalhartNorth Texas State Fair & Rodeo - Denton, 3rd week
SeptemberNational Cowboy Symposium & Celebration - LubbockWild West Day - Springtown, 3rd weekendBoys Ranch Labor Day Rodeo - TascosaOld Fort Day - Fort Davis, Labor Day weekendCol. Charles Goodnight Chuckwagon Cookoff - ClarendonWest Texas Fair and Rodeo - Abilene, Friday after Labor DayWest Texas Fair & Rodeo - AbileneAmerican Miniature Horse Association, World Championship Show - Fort Worth
Annual Calendar of EventsThat will bring out the cowboy in us all
OctoberHaley Library & History Center Fall Gathering - MidlandRemuda Quarter Horse Show - MidlandTexas Tech NIRA College Rodeo - LubbockCowboy Roundup USA - Amarillo World Championship Chuck Wagon Round up - AmarilloCowboy Mounted Shooting Association World Finals - AmarilloFort Griffi n Living History Days - AlbanyWalk Through History/Concordia Cemetery - El PasoAnnual Spirit of the Frontier Festival- AbileneRed Steagall Cowboy Gathering & Western Swing Festival - Fort WorthAmerican Miniature Horse Association, World Championship Show - Fort WorthRoping Fiesta - San Angelo
NovemberWorld Championship Ranch Rodeo - AmarilloUS Team Penning Association National and World Finals - AmarilloNational Cutting Horse Association-Futurity - Fort WorthAmerican Paint Horse Association World Championship Fall Show - Fort WorthWorld Championship Ranch Rodeo - Amarillo, 2nd weekend
DecemberFrontier Christmas - Fort DavisCandlelight at the Ranch - LubbockNational Cutting Horse Association-Futurity - Fort WorthChristmas in The Stockyards - Fort WorthChristmas at Old Fort Concho - San Angelo, 1st full weekend
Sundance Square - Fort Worth
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame -
Fort Worth
Sid Richardson Museum - Fort Worth
Stockyard’s Championship Rodeo - Fort Worth
Stockyards National Historic District - Fort Worth
- Billy Bob’s Texas
- Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame & Sterquell
Wagon Collection
- Fort Worth Herd Cattle Drive
(Daily 11:30 a.m. & 4:00 p.m.)
- Stockyards Championship Rodeo
(Every Friday & Saturday)
Log Cabin Village - Fort Worth
Horse Country Tour – Denton
Fort Richardson State Park / Historic Fort
Richardson - Jacksboro
Wildcatter Ranch - Graham
Old Jail Art Center - Albany
Fort Griffi n State Historic Site - Albany
Frontier Texas - Abilene
5-D Custom Hats and Leather - Abilene
Art Reed’s Custom Saddles - Abilene
Buffalo Gap Historic Village - Abilene
Fort Chadbourne - Bronte
Fort Concho National Historic Landmark - San
Angelo
Bootmaker Trail - San Angelo
Dutch Oven Dinner and Entertainment by Fiddle
Fire & Cowboy Re-enactment by Concho
Cowboy Company - San Angelo
Miss Hatties Bordello Museum - San Angelo
Producers Livestock Market - San Angelo
(Tuesdays & Thursdays)
Painted Rock Indian Pictographs - Paint Rock
Granbury Opera House
Spanish-Indian War Memorabilia Exhibit at U.S.
Veteran’s Museum - Granbury
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The Red Loop features attractions in Fort Worth, Denton, Abilene, San Angelo & Granbury. It travels through the Lakes & Forts Trail Regions. The frontier forts of Texas were lonely outposts in wild country. Travel the path where settlers streamed west with dreams of new opportunity and lines of forts were established to protect Texans on the advancing frontier.
Groups are encouraged to combine these different loops, depending on interests and length of the tour.
Weatherford City Greenwood Cemetery -
Weatherford
Thurber Ghost Town - Thurber-Mingus
Cross Shield Ranch Tours - Aspermont
Windmill Ranch Preserve Ranch - Snyder
Garza County Historical Museum - Post
National Ranching Heritage Center - Lubbock
American Wind Power Center - Lubbock
Southwest Collection & Archive - Lubbock
Crosby County Pioneer Museum / Casa del Sol -
Crosbyton
Ranger Creek Ranch - Vera
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The Yellow Loop features attractions in Fort Worth, Lubbock & Abilene. It travels through the Lakes, Forts & Plains Trail Regions. Apache and Comanche tribes once roamed this land. They were followed by Spanish explorers, cowboys on the free range, and fi nally, home-steaders seeking opportunity in a new place. The stories of the land and the people are the history of this region - and the true stories of the West.
Annual Calendar of EventsThat will bring out the cowboy in us all
JanuarySandHills Stock Show and Rodeo (1st on the PRCA Circuit) - Odessa, 1st weekCelebration of Champions World’s Greatest Horseman - San AngeloSouthwestern Exposition Livestock Show & Rodeo - Fort Worth (through February)
FebruaryTrappings of Texas/Cowboy Poetry Weekend - Alpine, last weekendSan Angelo Livestock Show and Rodeo Southwestern Exposition Livestock Show & Rodeo - Fort Worth
MarchRemuda Quarter Horse Show - Midland
AprilNational Ranching Heritage Center’s Ranch Days - LubbockABC Pro Rodeo - LubbockFort Richardson Living History Days - Jacksboro, 3rd weekendFort McKavett Western History Days - Fort McKavett, 4th weekend
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Copper Breaks State Park - Quanah
Caprock Canyons State Park - Quitaque
Bar-H Working Dude Ranch - Clarendon
Goodnight Cemetery - Claude
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument -
Fritch
Kwahadi Indian Museum - Amarillo
American Quarter Horse Museum - Amarillo
Old Tascosa - Boys Ranch
Palo Duro Canyon State Park - Canyon
Panhandle Plains Museum - Canyon
Kenneth Wyatt Art Gallery - Tulia
MayD.J. Invitational Bull Ride - MidlandWestern Heritage Classic - Abilene, 2nd weekendFort Chadbourne Living History Days - Bronte, 1st weekendFrontier Forts Days - Fort Worth, 2nd weekendButterfi eld Stage Days and Rodeo - Bridgeport, 2nd weekend
JuneFort Griffi n Fandangle - Albany, last 2 weekendsTuff Team Xtreme Ranch Rodeo - MidlandParker Co. Sheriffs Posse Frontier Days PRCA Rodeo - Weatherford, 3rd weekendCoors Ranch Rodeo - AmarilloWestern Swing Festival - SnyderCowboy Roundup USA - Amarillo, 1st weekendWill Roger’s Range Riders Rodeo - Amarillo, last weekendWest of the Pecos Rodeo (The World’s First Rodeo) - Pecos
The Blue Loop features attractions in Amarillo & Lubbock. It travels through the Plains Trail Region. Here lies some of the greatest geographical drama of the high plains, where erosion has carved spectacular canyon landscapes. Travel through this region, home to Charles Goodnight, the inspirational fi gure for Lonesome Dove.
The Green Loop features attractions in Midland, Odessa, Fort Davis, San Angelo & Big Bend National Park. It travels through the Pecos, Mountain & Forts Trail Regions. Experience the natural beauty that encourages a variety of outdoor adventures from river rafting to horseback riding. Travel through a diverse landscape as you learn stories of the original cattle drives, the heritage of the cowboy and Native Americans.
Haley Memorial Library & History Center - Midland
Sibley Nature Center - Midland
Scharborough-Linebery House - Midland
Parker House Ranching Museum - Odessa
K-Bar Ranch - Odessa
West of the Pecos Museum - Pecos
Fort Davis National Historic Site - Fort Davis
Overland Trail Museum - Fort Davis
Historic Prude Ranch - Fort Davis
Museum of the Big Bend - Alpine
Big Bend Saddlery - Alpine
Big Bend Ranch State Park
Santa Elena Canyon/Castolon/Big Bend National
Park - Terlingua
Historic Terlingua - Terlingua
Hallie’s Hall of Fame/Stillwell Ranch -
Marathon
Historic Marathon/Post Park - Marathon
Presidio County Museum - Marfa
Historic Fort Stockton - Fort Stockton
Fort McKavett State Historic Site -
Fort McKavett
Presidio de San Saba ruins - Menard
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park -
Culberson Co./Van Horn
Concordia Cemetery - El Paso
Hueco Tanks State Historic Site - El Paso
El Paso Museum of Archaeology - El Paso
National Border Patrol - El Paso
Indian Cliffs Ranch/Cattleman’s Restaurant -
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Distances Between Major Cities
Fort Worth to Abilene .......... 150 milesAbilene to Midland .............. 150 milesOdessa to El Paso ............... 285 milesMidland to Lubbock............. 120 milesLubbock to Abilene ............. 165 milesLubbock to Amarillo ............ 125 milesMidland to Fort Davis .......... 170 milesFort Davis to Big Bend......... 100 milesSan Angelo to Granbury ...... 185 milesGranbury to Fort Worth .........40 milesEl Paso to Roswell............... 210 milesRoswell to Lubbock ............. 175 milesEl Paso to Carlsbad ............. 140 milesEl Paso to Santa Fe ............. 270 milesLubbock to Albuquerque ...... 293 miles
