Passport to Texas Frontier Reconnaissance

TEXAS – The Texas Forts Trail Region is now offering a “passport,” which is a booklet of information on the various forts along the trail, and a place to get a stamp. From "Old Yeller" to "Lonesome Dove," visit the Region where Western Classics have their roots!

The Passport is available at no charge. Request your Passport or pick one up at any of the featured sites listed below.

Visitors are welcome to use the passport to make a reconnaissance through the Texas Forts Trail Region, a place that was once the wild frontier where explorers and frontiersmen clashed with the land and Native Americans.

The "trail" is a recommended 650-mile driving loop within a 29-county region of Central West Texas that is anchored by a Spanish presidio and eight historic frontier forts.

Passports are available at no charge at any of the featured sites:

•  Abilene — Frontier Texas!
•  Abilene — The Grace Museum
•  Albany — Fort Griffin
•  Albany — The Old Jail Art Center
•  Bronte — Fort Chadbourne
•  Brownwood — Brown County Museum of History
•  Buffalo Gap — Buffalo Gap Historic Village
•  Eastland Chamber of Commerce — featuring the Connellee Hotel, Grimes Memorial Garden, Old Rip Park, Connellee Plaza, the Majestic Theater, and the Eastland Historic Hotel
•  Eden — Don Freeman Memorial Museum
•  Fort McKavett/Menard — Fort McKavett
•  Jacksboro — Fort Richardson
•  Mineral Wells Area Chamber of Commerce — featuring the Mineral Wells Famous Mineral Water Company, Fossil Park and Palo Pinto Old Jail Museum Complex
•  San Angelo — Fort Concho
•  San Angelo — The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
•  San Angelo — The San Angelo Visitors Center
•  Thurber/Mingus — W. K. Gordon Center

Find out more details at The Texas Forts Trail!