Area Attractions:

•Million Barrel Museum
•Sandhills State Park
•Pyote Rattlesnake Bomber Base Museum
•Meteorite Display
Wineries - St. Genevieve Winery
•American Airpower Heritage Museum & Confederate Air Force
•Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
•Pecos, Texas and the West of the Pecos Museum (western and pioneer history)
•Early frontier army posts at Fort Stockton and Fort Davis
•Big Bend National Park
•Carlsbad Cavern National Park
•Paisano Pete, the world's largest roadrunner (11 feet tall by 22 feet long) located at Fort Stockton
•Alpine, Texas with its many art galleries and family owned gifts and curio shops
•The University of Texas McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Texas
•The Ghost Lights of Marfa, Texas
•Balmorhea State Recreational Area
•Numerous desert and mountain nature drives or hiking tours
•Meteorite Crater and exhibition Museum in Odessa


 



Museums

Sandhills State Park
Come experience the wonders of sand at the Monahans Sandhills State Park.  Enjoy the unique sport of sand-surfing down glistening dunes of sand.  Take a dune buggy ride through the scenic sandhills and visit the hands-on exhibits in the Dunagan Visitor Center.
P.O. Box 1738
Monahans, Texas 79756
432.943.2092
email:
sandhills@monahans.org

website: www.tpwd.state.tx.us
Rates & Reservations: 1.512.389.8900
Information only: 1.800.792.1112

 

Rattlesnake Bomber base museum
Off Interstate 20 in Pyote, TX lie two (2)  8,400 foot-long runways used for World War II training flights of B-17 and B-29 bombers, at the Pyote Air Force Station, formerly Pyote Army Air Field, and nicknamed "Rattlesnake Bomber Base".  The base later became an aircraft storage depot, holding some 2,000 warbirds.  The museum exhibits the Rattlesnake Bomber Base and local heritage artifacts.

 

Million Barrel Museum- along the eastern end of Monahans on Business 20 is the Million Barrel Museum, a 14.5 acre site of historic potpourri.  Dominating the scene is a large elliptical oil storage tank.  Built in 1928, the tank was designed to hold over a million barrels of crude oil.  Today it is the setting for barbeques, dances, cowboy poetry readings, fajita cook-offs and class reunions.  A segment of the tank wall was used to create the 400 seat Meadows Amphitheater, where performances are now held.  Beside the tank sits the original Holman House.  Restored and refurbished to reflect life from the late nineteenth century.  Other exhibits at the site include the original Monahans Jail, a section of railroad track with a vintage caboose, an eclipse windmill and a display of antique farm equipment.
400 Museum Boulevard, Monahans, Texas 79756
email: millionbarrel_museum@monahans.org





 

For more information please contact us at 432.943.2187 or email: chamber@monahans.org.
 

 

 



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