Brilliant sherbet-drenched sunsets, undulating peaks along the horizon, swaying prairie grasses punctuated with mountains of enormous lava rock. Alpine, Texas, is a remote, high-desert gem, 90 miles north of Big Bend National Park and Mexico. When you take a deep breath at the 4,475-foot elevation, the air is clean and sweet, the mornings and evenings are cool and crisp, and the stars at night are big and bright — millions of them.
I like Alpine for its beauty, great weather, and friendly people. They say “hello” as you walk down the sidewalk, and you get those Howdy one-index-finger lifts off the steering wheel as you drive along the West Texas highways.
Alpine, with a population of 6,000, is the perfect getaway. Here are the best things to explore in Alpine.
