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Wyler Aerial Tramway is an aerial tramway in El Paso, Texas, United States. The tramway is operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and is located in Franklin Mountains State Park. The tramway complex covers 196 acres (0.79 km 2) on the east side of the Franklin Mountains. The gondolas travel along two 2600 foot 1 3/8" diameter steel ...
Tourist attractions in El Paso, Texas (4 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in El Paso County, Texas" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Plaza, El Paso, Texas (postcard, circa 1902) J. Fisher Satterwaite , El Paso Parks and Streets Commissioner, contracted with Fisher Satterthwaite to create beauty out of this desert patch. By 1883, the park was surrounded by a fence, a walled pond was created, a gazebo was erected and 75 Chinese Elm trees were planted.
The Thing. Inside the exhibit are a variety of items, including odd wood carvings of tortured souls by woodcarver Ralph Gallagher, the "Wooden Fantasy" of painted driftwood purchased from an Alamogordo, New Mexico collector, framed 1880s to early 1900s lithographs, historic engraved saddles, guns and rifles of historic Western significance, a Conestoga wagon from Oklahoma!, a buggy without a ...
Universities and colleges in El Paso, Texas (3 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in El Paso, Texas" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Despite the town being officially named El Paso in 1852, the locals continued to call it Franklin throughout the 1850s. [5] The El Paso Tin Mining and Smelting Company operated a tin mine on the northeast slope of North Franklin Mountain from 1909 to 1915. While the mine had the distinction of being the only tin mine ever located in the U.S ...
The Star on the Mountain is a man-made star-shaped landmark on the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, Texas, that is illuminated nightly by the El Paso Chamber.It was first lit as a Christmas decoration in 1940 and was meant as a reminder to people on both sides of the nearby Mexico–United States border that America was at peace during the holiday season.
Bassett Place is a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, owned and operated by Cypress Equities. It is located on El Paso's east side, at Interstate 10 and Geronimo Drive. [ 1 ] Its anchors are Costco Wholesale , Conn's , Kohl's , Premiere Cinema IMAX and Target .