Pine Spring - Texas Ghost Town

PINE SPRING

NAME: Pine Spring
COUNTY: Culberson
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 2
CLIMATE: Warm winter, hot summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Winter, spring, fall

COMMENTS: Very few residents.
REMAINS: A few structures.

Pine Spring was never considered a town. It actually was a way station for travelers at the remote Guadalupe Pass in Far West Texas. The Pine Spring station, popularly called the Pinery, was one of the original stops on the Butterfield Overland Mail route in the late 1850s from St. Louis and Memphis across the American Southwest to San Francisco, a distance of 2,795 miles. In the late 1920s, it became a stop for auto travelers when a highway opened from El Paso to Carlsbad, New Mexico. Pine Spring remained in use until 1859 when the route for the mail was changed to a more southerly one through Fort Stockton and Fort Davis to El Paso. After the route was changed, the station fell vacant and without maintenance it fell into ruins. Pine Spring is on the north side of the crest of the Guadalupe Pass in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park on U.S. Highway 62/180. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

Pine Spring was never considered a town. It actually was a way station for travelers at the remote Guadalupe Pass in Far West Texas. The Pine Spring station, popularly called the Pinery, was one of the original stops on the Butterfield Overland Mail route in the late 1850s from St. Louis and Memphis across the American Southwest to San Francisco, a distance of 2,795 miles. In the late 1920s, it became a stop for auto travelers when a highway opened from El Paso to Carlsbad, New Mexico. Pine Spring remained in use until 1859 when the route for the mail was changed to a more southerly one through Fort Stockton and Fort Davis to El Paso. After the route was changed, the station fell vacant and without maintenance it fell into ruins. Pine Spring is on the north side of the crest of the Guadalupe Pass in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park on U.S. Highway 62/180. SUBMITTED BY: Henry Chenoweth

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