Guadalupe Mountains is a remote park in West Texas along the New Mexico boarder. GMNP is a vast wilderness. A major highway skirts the edge of the park for 40 miles including Carlsbad Caverns - same mountain range. So access is at three places along the highway. Many of the hikes are rugged and steep. We did a few - one 7 mile hike that Rusty and I did into a canyon with a very nice stone house built by McKittrick, the man who eventually gave much of the land for the park. We also did a trail to the old Butterfield Stage stop, Frijole Ranch, Smith Spring and a nature trail. We saw Texas madrone trees and alligator cypress tress along the trails. The wind was fierce gusting one time to near 60 MPH and steady over 24 MPH so the cool weather felt quite cold. It also dampened activity a bit. We camped with no services in the parking lot for a trail that NPS has designated for camping.
