City Trailheads Put Mountain Trails Inside Daily Life

In a lot of El Paso neighborhoods the mountains aren't a weekend destination. They start at the end of the street. The city's trails page lists trailheads scattered across town, with names like Lost Dog, Lazy Cow, Chuck Heinrich, Roundhouse, Palisades Canyon, and Thousand Steps.

Each of those feeds into mountain, canyon, paved, and natural-surface routes, with trail maps linked off the same page. Some trailhead improvements are still being planned or built, so the network keeps stretching a little wider every year.

For residents this is the everyday version of the big state park up on the ridge. The Franklin Mountains are stitched into ordinary El Paso geography, and these city trailheads are how most people actually reach that landscape close to home — though it's worth checking the trailhead page first to see whether a listed improvement has opened yet.