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Fort Davis is the town in Texas
The Davis Mountains are located in Texas, a state that is the most ecologically diverse state in the nation and is where the small mountain community of Fort Davis is located. The area is a fantastic destination to explore. We have some photos and a little information about the historical community of Fort Davis and the beautiful Davis Mountains area. The artist town of Marfa is located about 20 miles from Fort Davis and the town of Alpine is also 20 miles from Fort Davis and about 20 miles from Marfa.
Marfa Public Radio is one of the coolest public radio stations anywhere. The station has an immense library of interesting music to bop along with that you might well have never or rarely heard and are a very interesting radio station. It's radio for a wide range.
Give them a listen sometime. Here is the link. http://www.marfapublicradio.org/
The nearby town of Alpine has a great blues bar called Railroad Blues featuring Guinness and Shiner beer on tap. Marfa has a lot of art galleries and bookstores as creative people from all over the world like to live and hang out there. The Big Bend National Park is around 80 miles south.
Sunrise in the Davis Mountains near Fort Davis
Some moments in the life of Blue Mountain
A flower on Blue Mountain.
Sunset.
Fort Davis is the highest town in Texas and lives at an altitude of around 5050 feet in the Davis Mountains. The town is about 20 miles from Marfa, 20 miles from Alpine, around 225 miles east of El Paso, 600 miles west of Houston and around 80 miles north of the Big Bend National Park, 1780 miles from Miami, 1003 miles from Los Angles, 2549 miles from Bangor, 1927 miles from Seattle and 3,906,828 and 10 miles more or less from Jupiter. (the planet)
Fort Davis is in the middle of everything or pretty much nothing depending on where you are.
The area is truly unique even in Texas, a huge state with a lot of territory, as the Davis Mountains are the only mountains in the entire state and are volcanic in origin. The ancient mountains are the eroded remains of massive 300 million year old lava flows. If you like to go on road trips and anyone that loves the cars on our website likes a good road trip, the Balmorea Highway 17 exit off I-10 will take you through 35 beautiful miles to the mountain town of Fort Davis where nearby the world famous McDonald Observatory and the Davis Mountain State Park with the historical Indian Lodge, a jewel of historical lodges built by the CCC in the 1930's will be found. The original restored historical Fort Davis site can be toured as well.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public works relief program for unemployed men age 18-25, providing unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States from 1933 to 1942 as part of the New Deal legislation promoted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Between the years of 1854 and 1891, soldiers that were stationed in the original Fort Davis guarded stagecoaches and travelers along the San Antonio to El Paso road. This old historical fort is considered the best preserved in the Southwest.
The famous McDonald Observatory is located atop a mountain about twelve beautiful winding miles from Fort Davis. The Observatory features regular Star Parties that are a lot of fun to do. As the area is one of the darkest in the USA, the night sky is a wonder to behold. The Milky Way is vividly on display as well as the entire universe if you can see that well.
There are mountain lions, javalinas, jack rabbits, foxes, coyotes, mule deer, rattlesnakes, auodads, tarantulas and many species of birds that live in the Davis Mountains.
The entire area is marvelous and most enjoyable for walking, driving motorcycles, bicycles and sports cars as the roads are smooth, nicely banked and just very well done. Driving fine cars in crowded big cities is a drag and a very different experience than driving the same car in an exquisitely beautiful place with nicely banked roads like Fort Davis. There are many Bed and Breakfasts, hotels, motels, camp grounds, RV parks and lodges in or near Fort Davis. Amtrak trains make a stop in Alpine and there are several small nearby airports serving the area.
Here are a few links about the Far West Texas area.
http://www.davis-mountains.com/pages/Davis%20Mountains/sl.html
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/indian_lodge/
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/davis_mountains/
Here is a link that shows some of the diverse country of West Texas and some of the animals that live here. Palo Duro canyon is featured and is a truly wild place on the earth that is Grand Canyon-esque. Texas is so large that we have to separate the West from the Far West. Eventually you might get to the far out West.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/22132017?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0