Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Guadalupe Mountains National Park protects the world's most extensive Permian fossil reef and the four highest peaks in Texas.

These peaks are part of a mostly buried 400-mile-long U-shaped fossil reef complex, Capitan Reef, which extends through a large area of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The longest exposed stretch of Capitan Reef, 12 miles of which is in the park, extends from Guadalupe Mountains National Park northeast almost to the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico, a distance of almost 40 miles.

The Pine Springs campground is a short distance from the visitor center as well as where the many trails begin. Hiking and star gazing is at it's best here.