Eight guides covering the top of Texas, each with its own tours, sights, transport, travel guide and seasons pages.
The Panhandle is simple to understand: flat high plains, split by two great river systems, with Amarillo in the middle.
Most first trips combine Amarillo with Palo Duro Canyon. Add a stretch of Route 66 and, if you have time, the wilder Caprock Canyons.
The city at the crossroads, and the historic highway that runs right through it.
Amarillo & Route 66 
Amarillo & Route 66 Around 178 miles of the Mother Road: the midpoint café, a leaning water tower, a barbed-wire museum and a glowing Art Deco station.
Two huge breaks in the plains: famous Palo Duro and wild, bison-filled Caprock.
The canyons The “Grand Canyon of Texas”: red rock walls, the Lighthouse hoodoo, a summer outdoor musical and a superb museum in nearby Canyon.
The canyons Wild red badlands where the Texas State Bison Herd roams free, with a rail-trail tunnel, big hikes and very few people.
Quiet country: an ancient quarry, a Woody Guthrie town and the XIT Ranch lands.
The northern Panhandle A reservoir in red breaks on the Canadian River, and the rainbow-flint quarries people have mined for some 13,000 years.
The northern Panhandle A brick-street oil town where a young Woody Guthrie learned his music, with big-sky drives to Miami and Canadian.
The northern Panhandle High, wide cowboy country: the three-million-acre XIT Ranch, a famous summer reunion and the grasslands of the Dust Bowl.
Lubbock, just over the line on the South Plains, and the southern gateway to the region.
Short on time? Stick to Amarillo and Palo Duro. For wildlife, add Caprock. For history, try Alibates or Dalhart. Music fans should head to Pampa and Lubbock.
The Panhandle is road-trip country with few bookable tours. Check what GetYourGuide currently offers around Amarillo, then fill in the rest with our free guides.
