Driving The Texas Mountain Trail
Highway 170 along the Rio Grande
This modern river road was completed in 1961. It begins in the town of Presidio, Texas in the west. Make sure you fill the gas tank before leaving town. There won’t be any gas available for a while. Of course, you can end in Presidio if you drive it the other way. We began in Presidio.
Highway 170 east/west is one of the most beautiful drives in the country. People come from all over the world to drive this road that follows along the Rio Grande River on the Mexico/United States border.
The first point of interest is Fort Leaton State Historic Site. I wrote about this place in further detail and you can read about it here.
Fort Leaton is an entrance point and visitor center of Big Bend Ranch State Park. Big Bend Ranch State Park is the largest state park in Texas covering over 300,000 acres of rugged, desert and mountainous terrain.
