Guadalupe Mountains National Park - Hiking to Guadalupe Peak, the Highest Point in Texas and Some Park Info
"You're going to hike a mountain in Texas? Texas is all flat!" At the top of Texas, Guadalupe Peak at 8,751ft. The hike climbs almost 3,000ft in elevation over 4.2 miles to the top. Texas is not all flat. Buckle in. This is a long and detailed post in an attempt to do both the park and my hike justice. The Drive Down I drove down to the Texas boarder all the way from northern New Mexico (read about my time near Taos, NM here ). The main part of Guadalupe Mountains National Park is about half an hour south of the New Mexico/Texas boarder. I took a detour on the way down to drive through Santa Fe. In hindsight, this was a terrible decision. All I did was drive on tiny roads too concerned with trying not to hit the pedestrians all over the place to look at anything. I took another detour through Roswell just to say I went there. You have to keep these long haul drives interesting. It was a long trip down to Texas, and yes a lot of it was insanely flat. Once I hit southern N...