The best things to see in Amarillo and Palo Duro Canyon (Texas)

Our visit to Amarillo, in this new day of Coast to coast trip through the United States, It started with a walk through the city, after managing to park the car without paying!!!.

Yellow, riding a Texas, it is a very pleasant, quiet, quite harmonious city. Ideal for a quiet life.

During our walk we saw a statue, with a plaque signed by former President Bush, in tribute to astronaut Rick Husband, son of Amarillo, and died in 2003, after the disintegration of the NASA spacecraft Columbia, along with the entire crew of which he was its commander.

The visit that most attracted our attention, after the kind explanations at the Amarillo Visitor Center, was Palo Duro Canyon, a state park located 25 miles from Amarillo, and where we decided to head.

Suddenly, Aurora realized that she had left her glasses at the motel.

We returned quickly and, although the cleaning employees had already passed by, and had piled up the sheets and duvets on the beds in a corner, after a few anxious moments we found the glasses hidden by the sheets on the floor. Aurora breathed calmly.

From the motel we drove to the Palo Duro Canyon.

From what we are informed, it is the largest canyon in Texas and the second largest in the world, after the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.

El Palo Duro Canyon State Park It opened to the public in 1934.

The cannon has 190 kilometers long, a maximum of 33 kilometers wide and a maximum depth of 250 meters.

Its crests reach 1,200 meters above sea level.

Remarkable data, but incomparable with the 450 kilometers in length and more than 2,000 meters of maximum depth of the Grand Canyon.

We toured the canyon by car, stopping in those places that seemed most attractive to us.

It is really interesting to see the different forms that nature has taken over the centuries.

You can clearly see the different geological layers, of different colors, as well as the vegetation.

We have crossed several streams, and we found several areas set up for camping and picnicking.

In the park there were also some discreet restaurants, a souvenir shop and a very interesting museum building, where you can learn everything about the canyon, when it was discovered, the Indian tribes that inhabited it, geological aspects, flora, fauna….

We stayed for about two hours, and it was the first park we visited on the trip.

We have really been very pleasantly impacted by what we have seen, by how beautiful nature can be, and by the feeling of peace that it has transmitted to us.

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