Wild Rose Pass is a gap in the
Davis Mountains in
Jeff Davis County, Texas. It lies at an elevation of .
History
Wild Rose Pass was where travelers on the
San Antonio-El Paso Road passed into the uplands of
West Texas
West Texas is a loosely defined region in the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio.
No consensus exists on the boundary betwee ...
, bypassing a narrows in
Limpia Canyon on its way to
Fort Davis.
The site today
Wild Rose Pass is today along the route of
Texas State Highway 17 northeast of
Fort Davis, Texas.
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References
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Mountain passes of Texas
Landforms of Jeff Davis County, Texas
San Antonio–El Paso Road