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Canyon is a city in the High Plains region of the Texas Panhandle. It is home to the West Texas branch of Texas A&M University, the most prestigious in the region, and is the gateway city to Palo Duro Canyon.

[edit] Get in

• US 87 connects Canyon with Amarillo to the north and Lubbock to the south.
• US 60 comes in from Hereford and Clovis, New Mexico to the southwest.

[edit] Get around

[edit][add listing] See

• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 2503 4th Avenue, 806 651 2244, [1]. The largest historical museum in the state hosts a wide range of artifacts covering Panhandle pre-history, American Indian life, the early pioneer era, and cowboy life on the ranches.
• Combine City, FM 1151 near Osage Road. A farmer living along the road to Palo Duro Canyon has created a tractor version of Amarillo's Cadillac ranch, planting 12 wheat combines in a field. Unlike the Cadillac version, visitors are not invited onto the property.

[edit][add listing] Do

[edit][add listing] Buy

[edit] Antiques

• Down Home, 1517 4th Ave, 806 655 8783.
• It's the Berry's, 407 16th St, 806 655 0111.
• Stewart Antiques, 805 19th St, 806 655 0676.
• Vintage Funk, 405 16th St, 806 655 4000.

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• El Patio, 1410 Highway 60, 806 655 4300. Family-owned restaurant with Tex-Mex and Mexican cuisine.
• Pepito's Mexican Restaurant, 408 23rd St., 806 655 4736. Good Tex-Mex food plus chicken fried steaks and hamburgers. Try the beef fajitas.
• Thai Spice Restaurant, 102 23rd St, 806 655 4635.

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• Buffalo Inn, 300 23rd St, 806 655 2124. An older hotel, but clean and inexpensive.
• Holiday Inn Express, 2901 4th Ave, 806 655 4445. Better than most locations of the same chain. Clean rooms, microwave, a good complimentary breakfast.
• Hudspeth House, 1905 4th Ave., 806 655 9800, [2]. Bed and breakfast in a house dating from the 1910's with a wraparound veranda and beautiful gardens.

[edit] Contact

[edit] Get out

• Palo Duro Canyon is only a few miles down the road.

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