Guadalupe Mountains Self-Guided Audio Driving Tour

Like many deserts, it’s a place of extremes, with blistering hot days and cold nights. Note: The tour is over 132 miles long, with more than 40+ audio stories, and takes about 2-3 hours to complete. New, Lifetime access, no expiry. Use it anytime, on any trip, as many times as you want.

MicKittrick Canyon, one of the park’s best attractions. This canyon is like a hidden world inside the arid Chihuahua Desert. The steep canyon walls shelter a surprising variety of plants, animals, and waterways.

y of human habitation in this spring-fed desert oasis, from Native peoples through the Smith family. The grounds are open year-round and contain picnic tables under the shady trees.

It takes most people around two hours to complete.

This is a great place to walk around and explore. It generally takes visitors about an hour to visit the house and orchard.

This trail takes about an hour and provides an easy loop of just a little over two miles.

Now a museum, this house shows what ranching life was like far back into the 1800s.

Stagecoaches made the grueling trip from San Francisco to St. Louis every two weeks to deliver mail across the fast-growing West.

cts to various other trails along the way. The main route returns us to McKittrick Canyon and is a challenging hike that takes 12 hours and covers almost 19 miles of rocky, steep terrain.

Guadalupe Peak is the highest natural point in Texas, with an elevation of 8,751 feet.

It’s the tenth-highest peak in Texas, but it’s more famous for the hidden treasure found inside - a fossilized reef.

As we drive, you can see the rugged peaks of El Capitan and Guadalupe Peak rising above flat, whitish terrain. We’re entering the Salt Basin, which is a relatively new addition to the complicated geology of Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

Like the Guadalupe Mountains, the Cornudas contain sedimentary deposits from the Permian era.