Big Bend National Park, and the near-ghost town of Terlingua are all within an hour's drive east on farm road 170.
Big Bend Ranch State Park, 30 minutes east on FM 170. Texas' largest state park.
Chinati Hot Springs
Box 67 Candelaria Route off Ranch Road 170 about 40 miles northwest in the community of Ruidosa. Hot springs as well as trails into the canyons of the Chinati Range.Ojinaga is a larger city on the Mexican side of the border in the state of Chihuahua. It is perhaps the least spoiled of all the border towns and offers the visitor an experience like a Mexican interior town.
Peguis Canyon
is a breathtaking geological feature about 25 miles to the east on Mexican Highway 16.Shafter Historic Mining District
about 20 miles north on Highway 67. Adobe remnants of a silver mining community of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.