Driving The Texas Mountain Trail

Highway 170 along the Rio Grande

Julia A. Keirns
In Living Color
Published in
5 min readFeb 8, 2023

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Highway 170 along the Rio Grande. Photo copyright Julia A. Keirns.

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.

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Julia A. Keirns
In Living Color

Currently living in an RV full time and traveling across North America. The goal is simply to write about it. Editor of Fiction Shorts, the Challenged, and ROD.