Rural Interstates, Highways, and Roads in the Panhandle Region

Of course, the big freeways are in the big cities. But any true road enthusiast also likes to take a look at the rural roads and the surrounding landscape. I'll slowly add photos to this section

The Panhandle Region includes the following counties:       Andrews Floyd Moore Archer Foard Motley Armstrong Gaines Nolan Bailey Garza Ochiltree Baylor Glasscock Oldham Bordon Gray Palo Pinto Briscoe Hale Parmer Brown Hall Potter Callahan Hansford Randall Carson Hardeman Roberts Castro Hartley Runnels Childress Haskell Scurry Collingsworth Hemphill Shakelford Clay Hockley Sherman Cochram Howard Stephens Coke Hutchinson Sterling Coleman Jack Stonewall Concho Jones Swisher Cottle Kent Taylor Crosby King Terry Dallam Knox Throckmorton Dawson Lamp Tom Green Deaf Smith Lipscomp Wheeler Dickens Lubbock Wichita Donley Lynn Wilbarger Eastland Martin Yoakum Fisher Mitchell Young

Features of the Panhandle Plains Region
Topography and Characteristics	Major Cities / Rainfall / Elevation	Common & Rare Vegetation	Common & Rare Wildlife
Size: 81,500 sq mi. Av. Rainfall: 15-28 in./yr Characteristics: Gently rolling to rough and dissected. The High Plains region, together with the Rolling Plains, comprise the southern end of the Great Plains of the central United States. Soils vary from coarse sands along outwash terraces adjacent to streams, to tight clays and shales. Soil reaction is neutral to slightly alkaline. Caliche generally underlies these surface soils at depths of two to five feet.	Abilene--24.4 in / 1,738 ft Amarillo--19.56 in / 3,676 ft Borger--20.34 in / 3,116 ft Boys Ranch--21.56 in / 3,176 ft Clarendon--21.95 in / 2,727 ft Lamesa--18.56 in / 2,975 ft Lubbock--18.65 in / 3,241 ft Memphis--20.53 in / 2,067 ft Muleshoe--15.37 in / 3,889 ft Odessa--14.66 in / 2,891 ft Paducah--18.05 in / 1,886 ft Perryton--29.36 in / 2,942 ft Post--20.86 in / 2,590 ft Quanah--24.53 in / 1,568 ft Seminole--17.52 in / 3,312 ft Shamrock--26.08 in / 2,310 ft Wichita Falls--24.83 in / 946 ft	Sugarberry Plains cottonwood Honey mesquite Bur oak Peach-leaf willow Western soapberry Mtn. mahogany Chokecherry Prairie crabapple Eastern red cedar Saltbush Silver agarita Acacia Fragrant sumac Prickly-pear cactus Narrow-leaf Yucca Sideoats gramma Coral honeysuckle Teddy-bear cholla Rare Plants and Habitat Texas poppy-mallow	Pronghorn antelope Swift fox Prairie dog Badger Thirteen-lined   ground squirrel Plains hognose snake Swainson's hawk Great horned owl Burrowing owl Interior least tern Snowy plover Pinyon mouse Roadrunner Mule deer Western diamondback rattlesnake Rare Animals and Habitat Black-footed ferret Palo Duro mouse Texas kangaroo rat Concho water snake
"Features" information from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.