Trans Mountain
- January 22, 2001
- Rated 3 of 5 by
lisanti from Houston, Texas
On a beautiful, cold winter's day, we drove up to Trans Mountain. We took the road to the "peak" of where we were allowed to go (the rest of the road would just take you to the other side of the mountain), and stopped at the rest stop there. From there, you have a wonderful view of El Paso and Juarez. You can see the vast differences in the housing (Juarez houses are all different colors) and all the factories in Mexico.
Being amongst people that had grown up in El Paso, we heard many stories about the cars that drive off of this mountain into the desert below and how the desert was a good place to go driving in your dune buggy, and about the cross that's at the top of one of the mountains nearby that lights up at night.
It was also interesting that the Franklin mountain range divides El Paso in half and people make trips to the other side of the mountains to run errands and stuff.
From journal Visting Friends in El Paso