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Contrabando Trail West

Big Bend Ranch S.P. Texas

The Contrabando Trail System is composed of 25 miles of interconnecting wagon paths and single-track trails.
In the early 1890s the East Main Trail was part of the supply and stage route that connected Lajitas and the Terlingua Mining District
to the Marfa Railhead of the Southern Pacific Railroad located 80 miles to the north. This route also connected several ranches and homesteads in the area.

From the 1890s to the 1950s, prospectors blazed many of the trails in this area in search of cinnabar. The West Main Trail began as a rugged jeep and wagon road
that served as the main passageway from Presidio to Lajitas and Terlingua.

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Doug Cruden31-Jan-2021 09:31
Looks so deserted and isolated, but beautiful all the same. Nice use of the dirt track to take the eyes through to the distant ridge line
Julie Oldfield27-Jan-2021 02:33
Desert beauty at its finest. V
John Hamers26-Jan-2021 12:13
Wonderful view of this rugged landscape and I like the road leading the eye to the rock formations !!V
globalgadabout26-Jan-2021 05:33
a classic 'long and dusty road'...easy to imagine the quietness here..
Helen Betts26-Jan-2021 05:24
Such an arid landscape, yet very inviting in your excellent captures. V.
Alan K26-Jan-2021 04:36
For some reason that name gives me visions of horse drawn covered wagons hauling illicit moonshine between Texas and New Mexico.
That shot does convey a sense of the sort of heat that we have here today.
I should probably go and look at some galleries of Finland to recover...
Dennis Hoyne26-Jan-2021 04:16
A gorgeous scenic Lynn!
laine26-Jan-2021 03:01
The silence and the vastness...a good place to be this past year.
Don Mottershead26-Jan-2021 02:11
I think the Breaking Bad RV is just around the corner.