Canyon

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.

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.

Get around

See

• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 2503 4th Ave, ☎ [phone]. 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, 1151 FM (near Osage Rd). 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. 

Do

Buy

• Down Home, 1517 4th Ave, ☎ [phone]. 
• It's the Berry's, 407 16th St, ☎ [phone]. 
• Stewart Antiques, 805 19th St, ☎ [phone]. 
• Vintage Funk, 405 16th St, ☎ [phone]. 

Eat

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

Drink

Sleep

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

Connect

Go next

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

Routes through Canyon

to Clayton ← ends ← Amarillo ←	N  S	→ Plainview → Lubbock
Clovis ← Hereford ←	W  E	→ Amarillo → Enid