Amarillo is the Yellow City — capital of the Texas Panhandle, out on the high, flat Llano Estacado where the railroad dropped a cattle town in 1887 and Route 66 later ran straight through its heart. This is big-sky Texas: feedlots and ranch country to every horizon, the second-largest canyon in America just down the road, ten Cadillacs planted nose-down in a field, and a town that was once the busiest cattle-shipping point on earth. Cowboy bones, Mother Road neon, helium under the caprock — that is Amarillo.
A creek named yellow, a town painted to match, the busiest cattle pens on earth, and a highway that carried the whole country through town — Amarillo wears its story the way the Panhandle wears its sky: wide open. Amarillo, Texas — the Yellow City of the Panhandle, on Route 66 since 1926. Wear a little of it wherever the road takes you.
Why People Visit Amarillo Texas
- Drive a stretch of historic Route 66 through the Sixth Street Historic District, with vintage storefronts, antiques, and diners.
- Visit Palo Duro Canyon State Park, the "Grand Canyon of Texas" and the second-largest canyon in the country.
- Tour the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum, honoring the West's working horse.
- See Cadillac Ranch, the famous row of nose-down Cadillacs along Interstate 40.
- Stop at the Big Texan Steak Ranch, a Route 66 icon of Panhandle cattle country.
