The Pass of the North — a crossing in the mountains that has carried four centuries of history. El Paso sits in the gap where the Rio Grande breaks out of the southern Rockies, the natural pass that everything moving between Mexico and the American Southwest funneled through for four hundred years. A Spanish expedition named it "El Paso del Norte," the Pass of the North, in 1598; the oldest mission in Texas rose nearby a few generations later. Today it is the Sun City, set at the foot of the Franklin Mountains, with a star lit on the slope above it and a sun that almost never quits. This page tells the story of the Pass.
Today El Paso is the Sun City still — a borderland metropolis of mountains, missions, and desert light, proud of four centuries at the Pass and home to a large military community at the edge of the Franklins. Its story runs from the Pueblo and Tigua peoples of the river, through the 1598 naming of the Pass and the oldest mission in Texas, to a modern bicultural crossroads. Our El Paso designs gather that identity into wearable form — the Pass of the North, the Sun City, the star on the mountain. El Paso del Norte — the Pass of the North, a crossing for four hundred years.
Why People Visit El Paso Texas
People come to El Paso for the desert light and the layered history — the Pass of the North, the oldest mission in Texas, the star on the mountain — and for the mountains, the Mission Trail, and the bicultural energy of a Sun City that shares one valley with its neighbor across the river. It is sunny, spacious, and deep: four centuries of the Southwest at the Pass.
