Palo Duro

**Texan#1** · 16 January 2006, 08:09 PM

took these pics this past weekend on a camping trip to Palo Duro Canyon... 2nd largest canyon in the country after the grand canyon

the stunning Amarillo skyline from our hotel room

how flat is too flat?

we've arrived at the "lighthouse".. time to walk back

my car

Cadillac Ranch

**WestTexan** · 16 January 2006, 09:02 PM

Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing your pictures of God's country with the forum.

Did you eat the 72oz steak before your trip to the Canyon?

**Texan#1** · 16 January 2006, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by WestTexan

Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing your pictures of God's country with the forum.

Did you eat the 72oz steak before your trip to the Canyon?

Thanks! Nah I didn't eat the steak there cuz I cant eat much in one sitting, but I did eat at a Steak House close to the mall.

**staplesla** · 16 January 2006, 09:42 PM

I went camping there a few weeks ago. It was beautiful.

**tamtagon** · 16 January 2006, 10:01 PM

Thanks, Texan#1, for the pictures.

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... you must have done some pretty heavy duty hiking to get your jeans all torn up like that.

**Columbus Civil** · 16 January 2006, 11:14 PM

Nice pics! I've been meaning to see Palo Duro one of these days.

**Texan#1** · 16 January 2006, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by tamtagon

Thanks, Texan#1, for the pictures.

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... you must have done some pretty heavy duty hiking to get your jeans all torn up like that.

eh that's how I bought them

I suggest that if you're planning on camping here to wait until it gets warmer cuz we were freezing our asses off at night!

**Tnekster** · 17 January 2006, 12:24 PM

Great pictures, I stopped there once years ago on the way back from Albuquerque. Cool place.

**sterling** · 18 January 2006, 01:23 AM

Having all but grown up in Palo Duro Canyon (on and off horseback), I didn't remember it looking so good. Beautiful in fact. You captured the colorful strata of that rock and the sunlight better than most postcards I've seen. I have a new appreciation for it's natural beauty now. But camping out? Insanity...

Did you happen to make it downtown to see the new Performing Arts Center which opens January 20th? It's very curvilinear in it's way, supposedly mimicking one of the cliff formations in the canyon, and faced with a red sandstone. I got a tour over the holidays and I was quite impressed with the building designed by Holzman-Moss Architects. Otherwise, can't think of a lot to keep a city boy busy around those parts. I certainly did a lot of "resting" while there.

Thanks for these great pics.

**jsoto3** · 18 January 2006, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by sterling

Did you happen to make it downtown to see the new Performing Arts Center which opens January 20th? It's very curvilinear in it's way, supposedly mimicking one of the cliff formations in the canyon, and faced with a red sandstone. I got a tour over the holidays and I was quite impressed with the building designed by Holzman-Moss Architects.

http://www.globenewscenter.com/
http://www.holzmanmoss.com/announcements.html
http://www.holzmanmoss.com/gnc.html

**St-T** · 18 January 2006, 07:04 PM

^Very cool!

**Cole** · 18 January 2006, 07:11 PM

Awesome!!!

**WestTexan** · 18 January 2006, 07:24 PM

^Amarillo's new performing arts center is really a nice facility that is finally suitable for the City's excellent symphony. Great to see my hometown gets some pub on the board.

**St-T** · 18 January 2006, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by WestTexan

^Amarillo's new performing arts center is really a nice facility that is finally suitable for the City's excellent symphony. Great to see my hometown gets some pub on the board.

You should post pics of the Northwest side of town and show what Amarillo REALLY looks like... I love the new developments out there... and, for older neighborhoods show Wolflin area.

**Noah Vale** · 18 January 2006, 08:20 PM

I always thought that building didn't fit in with the area at all. The curviness of it, to me, lends itself more to Corpus Christi, and some of the newer architecture that's going up around the university there. Hopefully this will provide an impetus to breath some life back into downtown Amarillo. Lots of buildings sitting empty up there. Nice pics BTW.