El Pasoans Can Reach These Cities Before The Other Side Of Texas

It can indeed take about a day to drive through the entire state of Texas, especially if you live in FAR West Texas in El Paso. It'll take you a good amount of time to reach some of the biggest cities in Texas. However, many major cities -- including those in other states -- are close enough to El Paso that you would reach them before you reach the center of Texas.

Here are some major cities that you can reach with about a day's worth of driving from El Paso

When we say "major" cities, we're including cities with populations of over 500,000 and cities from other states that are widely known. We've also included some of the biggest cities in Texas. So nevertheless, here are a dozen cities you CAN reach if you leave El Paso early enough...

What's interesting is the number of NON-Texas cities that are closer to El Paso than cities in Texas -- even cities the states like Colorado, Nevada, California...even Kansas...are closer when compared to Houston, which is THE biggest city in Texas in terms of population numbers.

We didn't even include cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma which is also about 12 hours away, or Roswell, New Mexico which is only 3 and a half hours away.

some other notable Texas cities:

• Amarillo is about a 6-and-a-half-hour drive.
• Lubbock will take about 5 and & a half hours to 6 hours,
• Midland can take you somewhere between 4 & a half to 5 hours to get to; fun fact it's also home to the nearest H-E-B from us.

Of course, Texas also has some of the longest roads in America; you can read about the one that cuts through El Paso here and the "Road to Nowhere" road here.