The city of El Paso used to be a migrant stop that was often used for people who were traveling north, thus meaning “pass to the north” in Spanish. Making your way through Franklin Mountains State Park gives you a good taste of what it was like for people traveling back in the day. Spread out across 27,000 acres, the mountains are a popular destination for mountain biking, geocaching, and a great spot to see some wildlife.
Back in the 1970s, there was just a handful of public golf courses in the El Paso, Texas area and most of them were sub-mediocre, at best. Today, there still aren't a lot of options for the daily-fee player in the Sun City when you consider how large El Paso is (more than 700,000 people). But it has improved by leaps and bounds with a couple of real nice additions in the past 20 years.