Davis Mountains State Park

Davis Mountains State Park is a 2,709-acre high-elevation Texas park near Fort Davis whose cooler, wetter “sky island” setting supports unusual West Texas wildlife and vegetation. Although plans began in 1923, the park took shape during the Great Depression after local landowners donated acreage and Civilian Conservation Corps companies built roads, picnic facilities, and Indian Lodge, opening the area to public use by about 1938. Indian Lodge, a Southwestern adobe-style building completed in 1939 and later expanded, remains the only hotel in the Texas state parks system. With Skyline Drive, trails linking to Fort Davis National Historic Site, and notable CCC stonework, the park stands out as a classic New Deal landscape.

Texas · United States