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>Palo Duro Canyon is a nice place to see:
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>http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/paloduro/paloduro.htm

Steve,
I did look at the web site and when we pulled into Amarillo around noon we wasted some time trying to find a decent inn with a first floor availability (none were avialable and we tried about 7 inns/hotels) Must have been a conference week there...
We drove south and then east to the Palo Duro and did the overlook at the visitors center then drove down and did the 'Drive' stopping to see the Charlie Goodbody dugout replica and we all climbed up a wall to a cave seen from the roadway.

I can't remember my McMurty well enough to remember Charlie's name but I do recall, I believe, that the Palo Duro did figure in the novel "Dead Man's Walk" when the Comanche trapped the 'army' by setting fire to llano grass.

We had lunch there and I liked it so much that I do believe I'd like to visit again and camp there a couple of days - maybe in a spring or fall time of year when it's not so hot and campfires are allowed.

We ended up staying in a Best Western in Vega which we pulled into about 8:30pm.

Thanks again for the advice. We all loved it and even the boys (10 and 7) want to go camping there.

-Gil Munk