Travel and Explore El Paso, TX!

El Paso, TX The largest U.S. city on the Mexican border, El Paso is located in the mountain pass from which the name is derived. El Paso is Texas's 4th largest city and is over 400 years old. The Franklin Mountains are the southernmost tip of the Rocky Mountains. The city is filled with historic missions, border heritage and modern traditions. El Paso events include: Southwestern Livestock Show & Rodeo, International Balloon Festival, Feast of St. Anthony, Festival de la Zarazuela El Paso/Ciudad Juarez, Sun Carnival Parade.  Chamizal National Memorial  700 S. Marcial  El Paso  Texas  (915) 534-6668  It is a 55-acre museum and visitor center.  El Paso Centennial Museum  El Paso campus of the University of Texas at University Ave. and Wiggins Rd.  El Paso  Texas  (915) 747-5565  The displays deal with paleontology, geology, mammalogy, ornithology, ethnology, and archeology of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.  El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau  1 Civic Center Plaza, El Paso, TX 799901  El Paso  Texas  (915) 534-0696 or (800) 592-6001 and (800) 351-6024    El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center  401 Wallenberg Dr.  El Paso  Texas  (915) 833-5656  It is dedicated to preserve the memory of the more than six million Jews were killed by the Nazis 1933-1945.  El Paso Missions Tour  Ysleta Mission, 14 mi. e. on I-10  El Paso  Texas  (915) 534-0696  It's a two-hours self-guiding tour and it also contains communities and buildings dating from the early 1680s.  El Paso Museum of Art  1211 Montana Ave.  El Paso  Tennessee  (915) 541-4040  It presents the Kress Collection of the 14th- to 18th- century European paintings. It also presents frequent showings of Mexican and Southwestern art.  El Paso Museum of History  US 80 and I-10; use American Ave. exit  El Paso  Texas  (915) 858-1928  There are displays that relate to the early history of El Paso with emphasis on the role horsemen played in its founding.  El Paso Zoo  4001 E. Paisano  El Paso  Texas  (915) 544-1928  It is a 5-acre zoo that is known for its exotic color primates and reptiles, presents mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates.  Fort Bliss Museum  Pleasanton Rd.  El Paso  Texas  (915) 568-4518  It is a reproduction of the 1854 fort. There are other displays that deals with the lives and daily routines of soldiers in 1857.  Hueco Tanks State Historical Park  6900 Hueco Tanks Rd. #1  El Paso  Texas  (915) 857-1135  The 860 acres of the preserved one of the area's few natural watering places. Also there is a whole lot more.  Insights-El Paso Science Center  505 N. Santa Fe St.  El Paso  Texas  (915) 542-2990  It offers more than 300 participatory displays about science and technology.  Magoffin Home State Historic Site  1120 Magoffin Ave.  El Paso  Texas  (915) 533-5147  It's an 1875 replica of an earlier adobe house. There are many tours.  Science Drive  between US 80 and N. Piedras St.  El Paso  Texas    There is a paved road to an spectacular overlook on the south side of the Franklin Mountains.  Tigua Indian Reservation and Pueblo  122 S. Old Pueblo Rd.  El Paso  Texas  (915) 859-7913 or 859-3916  The Tiguas was relocated from New Mexico during the Pueblo revolt in 1680. The tribe finished the Ysleta mission, which is one of the oldest in North America, and it is under the Spanish direction in1682.  U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Museum  Bldg. 5000, jct. Pleasanton Rd. and Robert E. Lee Rd., Fort Bliss  El Paso  Texas  (915) 568-5412  There are films, photographs, a slide show, dioramas and weapons trace the history of air defense.  Viva! El Paso!  Alabama St., McKelligon Canyon Amphitheater  El Paso  Texas  (915) 565-6900  It's a 2-hour musical history of El Paso and its four cultures, which are American Indian, Mexican, Spanish and Anglo.  Wilderness Park Museum  4301 TransMountain Rd.  El Paso  Texas  (915) 755-4332  The museum contains dioramas and artifacts of the pre-Columbian Indians of the Southwest.