Secrets of Texas, the Lost Chapters (West)
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2022
- This video features footage never released on this channel in the western half of Texas.
#Texas #Nueces #guadalupe #nationalpark #canyon #Denver #abandoned #westtexas #oil #nationalwildliferefuge #hike #hiking #trail #river #texashillcountry
I live in Bexar County and while I knew Texas had some natural wonders... I'm beginning to see there's little need to leave the state to find these types of spots to enjoy
I am a fifth generation Texan and I still am amazed at the beauty of my state
I lived east of Muleshoe from 1970-78. Never made it out to the Wildlife Refuge. There were cow pens at Goose Lake where my husband often delivered cattle at night. Many unusual animal sightings in his repertoire of stories - including bear & black panther.
I took a two-week trip to Guadalupe National Park sponsored by the Dallas Museum of Natural History in the summer of 1977. Where the current visitor center is now was only a gravel parking lot with a single water spigot. We tent camped in that immediate area. We were amazed to see that when rattlesnakes were located, the park rangers did not kill them, they just picked them up and relocated them. It was the most memorable camping experience of my life (I was 20 at the time). McKittrick canyon was unbelievable, and should be seen by all who cherish the wilds of West Texas. It is not a difficult hike, (or wasn't when I was 20). The Guadalupe Mountains are beautiful. Many hikes in that area, some difficult. Hike Guadalupe Peak, Dog Canyon, and Bear Canyon to name a few. Thank you for the video.
Wow, sounds like a great experience. I would love to have seen it back then.
Love your videos! They are such a treat. I get to explore Texas without leaving my house. Thank you.
As a Texas/ Mexico Native I love your content and I am always learning of new places to visit. Thank you for the amazing and informative videos!
I created a Google MyMaps locating all of your videos, and it became clear that there was nothing from Lubbock south to Interstate 10, west of Abilene. And I kept going "there has to be something worth seeing out there!" Now I have to figure out how to add these locations to the map for one video. I hope to take a "tour" of Texas some day, in my travel trailer, and your videos will be immensely helpful. The map ties it all together.
When you showed the dam on the Nueces , you were on the downstream side.
On the other side it dams up a decent size lake. There is (or was in 2006) a nice little RV park and we setup right on a pad a few feet from the river.
My wife and I put our 2 person kayak out on the lake - it was a cold late fall day - and we were in the clearest water I've ever boated in Texas (I've done the Comal and San Marcos).
We could see the bottom about 8 feet deep in areas like there wasn't even water in the way.
I sure do thank you, I cant walk hardly anymore, and I still get to see these Great places.
My family has been camping Chalk Bluff Park for over 40 yrs...back when you had only screened cabins with fans and you hoped to get Cabin #7 because it was the only one that had it's own bathroom/shower. It is truly beautiful. Lots of campsites and cabins (w/ac now) these days. Being from Corpus Christi, it's become our bug out evacuation place during hurricane season, as well so my son and his cousins now know relate to it for that. All evacuees in cabins, playing mini golf, having tractor-pulled hayrides to arrowhead hunts in the past, feeding the animals in the petting zoo area, & going to the pavilion to dance or watch the storm conditions & decide when to head back. That is where we went for Hurricane Harvey most recently. Right now, with the fluid border situation, though, we are probably changing to another place for this season. Btw...Chalk Bluff is also a historical landmark area, too. It was the site of an attack on settlers by certain tribes resulting in deaths. Just a little history to add.
I love your videos. I'm from Texas, now living in Indianapolis. I want to take my best friend, who is an Indianapolis native, through Texas with me on a visit. This gives me a whole selection of places to take her to.
So amazing and informative; just made my day! I didn't know about any of these places. Thank you for helping us Texans learn more about Texas.
We used to go buy beer there just to say we did all the way from Lubbock!!!
thank you for the videos. there are beautiful places to see in Texas. thanks for showing them.did not know of these areas.
A hidden gem. Kinda hope it stays that way.
Have you ever done or would you consider doing a video on Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge - in Randall County TX. Tierra Blanca Creek (Red River Basin) was originally dammed (Umbarger Dam) for recreational purposes. Pre Lake Meridith Reservoir, the 1900 acre Buffalo Lake was a huge hit with boaters, fishermen & campers within a 300 mi diameter circle. During the post war era. It served Amarillo, plus all the farm, ranch & oil boom communities for 100 miles in every direction until some point in the early 1970s.
The local lore is that the state solicited the feds to take it over when the dam began to show signs of deterioration. Unable to raise money from the TX legislature for repairs federal turnover was suggested. Though quite young at the outset of the controversy I remember many articles in the Amarillo papers (think there were 3) arguing against fed managemt as well as stories on KGNC (710) Radio of local frustration dealing with the feds. The transfer was a hot button issue for years as people of the region slowly grasped that the dam wasn't going to be repaired or rebuilt. In 1978 above average rainfall filled the basin, refuge mgmt did a regional PR campaign claiming the dam posed a great threat to Canyon, several miles and many playa lakes downstream. The lake was drained over several months and has been dry since.
The feds have brought in a menagerie of animals they thought were needed including whitetail & raccoon. The barbed wire fence they built along FM 168 was meant to keep humans out rather than keep deer off the highway which is used by many farmers and ranchers living in communities south and west of there as an alternative to Interstate 27. Finding the entrance requires research. Not exactly friendly use of our tax resources, especially before everyone had GPS phones.
Failure of state & federal agencies to provide a unique water recreation site for our prairie communities always irked me, considering how many there are in other parts of our wealthy state.
TX Water Development Board gives a whitewashed account, claiming the spring feeding the lake dried up. I vaguely remember stories of the state buying irrigation water from a few surrounding landowners when the lake was bustling with people every weekend. You won't easily find economic impact information regarding the closure from official sources. The little town of Umbarger 3 miles north of the lake (now almost a ghost town) had thriving bait shops, gas stations, grocery, restaurants and there were several nice boat dealerships in Canyon and Amarillo. I'm curious, have you seen this type of action taken in other parts of the Texas?
Thank you for this! I quite enjoy this format where it's just short clips of spots all put together in one video
Awesome ! ! !
Dangit!
You gave away our secret sanctuary on the Nueces! Enjoy your videos
Man you brought joy to me when you mentioned Hackberry Creek. You were about 10-12 miles from our family ranch. Nueces River is the best hands down. Thank you!!
Cool video. Thanks for sharing
Enjoyed the video
So nice to see areas of Texas to visit as well as places I've been years ago
Hidden gems. Ty!
Love your videos
Another great video of all things Texas that we did not know, or didn’t know the history behind. Several decades ago my wife and I were returning from Red River NM, I veered off the interstate in the panhandle area. The highway went up a lone mountain and the remains of an outdoor theater and other remnants of some sort of campground or resort were there. I have googled for years with no luck. Maybe we were in NM and I am misremembering. Idk but you are doing a great job bro!
Good job putting the short videos into one ☝️ Turned out great.
All your vids are awesome bud! This one is just as great! Keep ‘em coming! Thank you for the great Texan content!!
I got to go hiking out there 😎👍
Ive had my car moved into the other lane by wind currents when going down the west sideof Guadalupe pass.😳
Try some Fishing lots of surprises
I do alot of this urban exploring across texas aswell. maybe I’ll have to shoot you some suggestions soon
The river in Camp Wood has the clearest water you can't even see it only feel it.
Here we pronounce it: NAY-CHEZ river. Thanks, I enjoy your videos.
That's also how I've heard the Neches R pronounced
Love your channel a lot 😊but can I suggest something could you do a 254 episode series on all the county seats and tour their courthouses and city halls give us a more in depth history. All leading up to a tour of Austin and the various government departments and Capitol. Each 1 hour video Also the republic of texas used to include land outside of modern day Texas maybe travel to those places. Lastly maybe you could travel across the border to the Mexican border cities like matamoros Reynosa Nuovo Juarez Monterrey Saltillo Monclova Chihuahua. Anyways stay safe out there. God Bless Texas
I am considering a video where I cross the border by car
Nueses River make me think of snakes thanks to Lonesome Dove.
Of course ... I'd like music credits added.
Many years ago (pre Google Maps) I was on a plane coming from the west coast going to Dallas via San Antonio. From my window seat I saw all these little white squares and wondered what they were. At its peak in elevation from the west the plane probably got as high 35,000 feet along the way, I don't know, but in far west Texas when it would have been in a descent mode I guess we were maybe 20,000 feet. The green circular irrigation systems I was familiar with, seeing them coming from the north (Denver) through the Texas panhandle to Dallas. It seems like a gillion of these little white squares "dotted" west Texas so much so it looked like there was going to be a lot of home building, and from very high up these things looked like foundations. Like I said there were no ready for home satellite maps in those days, in the 80s I wasn't even on the internet. Once we landed I didn't think of them anymore.
Years later I did think of them and I was driving this time in west Texas. I saw the oil derricks and immediately knew these were the "little white squares" I saw from the plane. I had seen these structures many times for years, but they were always scattered and seem to be on soil and from the plane it never occurred to me that these were oil wells.
Coming from Big Bend a few years ago, I decided to get off I-10 and go through Iraan and wave at the Ayatollah, or the Shah of Iraan, ha ha! If you say Denver City has the most oil fields, I won't argue, but I bet Iraan comes in a strong second place! The place is oil only! Most of the oil fields are seen on the secondary state/county back roads. I was on US 190. DO NOT go through this Iraan area at night on 190, I have never seen a gathering of so many deer at one place ON THE HIGHWAY! I was lucky, very lucky I didn't hit one. They were literally standing on and all over the highway, if I didn't drive over 15 MPH I was good. Deer in the headlight? Here it is deer in the driver seat like going through a Safari park. Maybe the road is all fenced in these days, and maybe there are "Deer Crossing" signs, but be careful the deer here don't seem to be too literate, they cross wherever they want to, and without pushing the button.
Yeah there are bigger oil fields out there, but of all the towns I looked at this one seemed to be the most densely drilled in and around town
@@secretsoftexas6872 Not a Texan, but a fan. The Ira and Ann Yates story is truly amazing. Without them there would be no Iraann. A late friend of mine was from there. His sons still live there, 2 on the well servicing side, the other a highway patrolman.
10:29 They call that the 19 mile crossing.
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Haven't ventured too much to west Texas. Too much desert.
Why do people think of Texas as nothing but boring flat Great Plains? I can see that if one were travelling along I-27 between Amarillo and Lubbock, and between Lubbock and Midland/Odessa and all they see is boring flat treeless and featureless country! It's also like that around Wichita Falls, too, even though the drive between Lubbock and Wichita Falls has a few canyon-like crossings to break up the monotoniously flat boring scenery!! And as far as Amarillo goes, at least those on I-40 gets to know that the flat boring parts of Texas that makes up the states stereotypes is that way because it lies on top of a high flat plateau/mesa that they gotta climb up steeply when travelling east from New Mexico just 15 miles east of the state line (one can see the hills even from the west) and up a long incline when travelling west from Shamrock, TX west of the Oklahoma border! (one can also see the change in terrain at the rest areas on I-40)
Also, if you think Texas highways are flat and straight as heck, try coming down Guadalupe Pass on US hwy 62/180! Nothing but 3 miles of 7% grade! If travelling with a heavy load, it'll be a slow climb going eastbound or a scary descent going westbound! I know, I had a brake-fade near runaway experience going westbound down that hill one year! After that experience I knew in my head that Texas ain't all flat and straight and boring! The epic veiws of El Captain also adds to the experience on that road!