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#Comanche trail park series#

^ "Comanchero Trail - Littlefield ~ Marker Number: 997".

Big Spring State Park: Texas Historical Commission. The spring is now part of Comanche Trail Park, which, along with Big Spring.

^ "Comanche War Trail - Big Spring ~ Marker Number: 12670". Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine, the Outdoor Magazine of Texas: The oasis.

^ "Comanche War Trail - Odessa ~ Marker Number: 996".

^ "Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River - Girvin ~ Marker Number: 2564".

See also Comancheria Comanchero Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo References Route 385 follows the same route through parts of the park. Much of the southeastern leg of the main trail runs through what is now Big Bend National Park, leaving the park through Persimmon Gap in the Santiago Mountains in the northern portion of the park. The Comanche Trail was noted as a beaten path as much as a mile wide. Southern branches extended into northern Mexico through Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango to Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi, while an eastern fork ran from Big Spring, Texas southeast to Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. It offers multiple tightly wooded fairways with a high risk/reward ratio, along with some big arm hyzer holes. County Rd West (18) Eighteen Hole Course Description: Comanche Trail Park West is the most diverse disc golf course in the Odessa/Midland area. Northern branches of the trail ran through the Texas Panhandle into Oklahoma, Colorado and Kansas. Comanche Trail Park West Comanche Trail Park (West) - 900 S. A separate fork ran from Big Spring, Texas to near Plainview, Texas, rejoining the other route to the east of Muleshoe.

#Comanche trail park series#

One branch ran to the vicinity of Lubbock and along the Double Mountains (Texas) fork of the Brazos River to near the present site of Abernathy, to near Littlefield, then via a series of springs to the Pecos River near Fort Sumner. From there the Comanche Trail ran east past the Caprock Escarpment and on across the Llano Estacado by two separate routes. The trail continued north to cross the Pecos River in the vicinity of Horsehead Crossing, bending northeast to the area of Odessa and Big Spring, Texas. The legs of the trail met at Comanche Springs, near Fort Stockton, Texas and Las Moras Springs near Fort Clark. įollowing water sources, the primary trail ran north from two starting points on the Rio Grande River, one at Boquillas and the other at Presidio, with crossings of the river at both locations. By 1857 parts of the trail had been named and appeared on maps. According to users from, the best place to hike in Comanche Lookout Park is Library and Comanche Loops Trail which has a 4.4 star rating from 872. Compare 35 hotels near Comanche Trail Park in Big Spring using 4841 real guest reviews. Although called a "trail," the Comanche Trail was actually a network of parallel and branching trails, always following sources of good water. The route ran from the Comanche summer hunting grounds to the Rio Grande, where the Spanish had established a line of missions and presidios during the eighteenth century in what was then called New Spain, which the Comanche would raid.