Events

Celebrate the Texas Heritage Trails 50th Anniversary with the Historic Mountain Trail Caravan. Join Senator Rodríguez at 4:30pm!

Just as the 50th anniversary approaches of the first international exposition held in the U.S. Southwest — San Antonio’s HemisFair ’68 — so does the golden anniversary of the Texas tourism initiative originally tied to it, the Texas Heritage Trails Program (back then, the Texas Travel Trails). The Dedication Caravan for the Texas Mountain Trail (first of 10 trails to be launched and dedicated) took place March 27–28, 1968, along an auto route from Alpine west to El Paso and back east to Fort Davis, culminating with Gov. Connally’s dedication of Texas’s first million-dollar state park on Mar. 28. Thus, it seems a natural 50th-anniversary celebration to replicate that event.