Brazos River Canyonlands
The Valley View. Circa 1909. Painting by L. O. Griffith.

brazosrivercanyonlands.com tells a story about an area in West Texas of surprising beauty, filled with canyons and tablelands carved out by the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River. Off the edge of the Texas High Plains, below the caprock, the canyons lie folded and deeply tucked away and the tablelands rise as mountain landmarks, all in the ranch lands of Kent, Scurry, Fisher and Stonewall counties. We call this area the Brazos River Canyonlands.

View of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River

The Brazos River Canyonlands area continues today to be much as it was when the Apaches and then the Comanches made their camps and raised their tepees on the rims of the canyons and scouted from the tops of the tableland mountains.

Wildlife has returned in abundance. Large Whitetail and Mule deer, Rio Grande Turkey, and Bobwhite Quail once again fill this unique habitat.

Boone-and-Crockett Whitetail buck grazing with Mule deer buck and doe in late afternoon
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RAND MCNALLY1882 RAILROAD AND COUNTY MAP OF TEXAS
Rand McNally 1882 Railroad and County Map of Texas
The Brazos River Canyonlands lie within Scurry, Kent, Fisher and Stonewall counties, straddling the 100th Meridian. To see details from this beautifully illustrated map from 1882, shown above, click on to the following links:
⋅ FULL MAP
⋅ TEXAS CANYONLANDS
⋅ BRAZOS RIVER CANYONLANDS
⋅ THE BRAZOS RIVER
Mesquites, Cedars and tall grasses covering the canyon floor along Big Rough Creek
Golden crownbeard (Verbesina encelioides) basks in the morning sun on the banks of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
Blooming Cholla from Impossible Canyon