El Paso Geology and Nature

El Paso Geology and Nature

El Paso Geology and Nature

El Paso Geology and Nature

Ocotillo Bloom

Ocotillo Bloom, Crazy Cat Mountain, west Franklins, with Mission Hills neighborhood and UTEP in the background, 2013.

Area: Westside / Mission Hills

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Fire in the Sky

Sunset from the west slopes of the Franklins on N. Stanton St. looking west into the New Mexico desert.

Area: Westside / Mesa Hills

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Sugar Loaf Mountain - El Paso, Texas

Sugar Loaf Mountain in northeast El Paso off Alabama St., near the Jobe/Cemex McKelligon quarry.

Area: Northeast / Franklin Mountains

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Mt. Cristo Rey

Christ the King sculpture on Mt. Cristo Rey, 2012, view facing west; sculpture by Urbici Soler.

Area: Central / Smeltertown

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01 February 2021 by El Paso Museum of History

"Mt. Cristo Rey was once known as Mule Driver's Mountain according to C. L Sonnichsen in Pass of the North Vol II, Texas Western Press, 1980 p. 74. Local artist Russell Waterhouse painted it and used that title." - Eva Ross

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