G.W. Builds

There's 2 things that Jan and I never miss when we come through Amarillo Texas. The BIG TEXAN Steakhouse (which I did miss on this trip) and the Cadillac Ranch. The first time we saw the Cadillac Ranch was in June of 1987 on our first trip across the country. We'd heard about it, but there's no sign or anything to mark it. I just saw it from the window.

The Ranch is simply 10 old Cadillacs set into the dirt - front first - up to their dashboards. They're sitting about 300 feet off the frontage road to I-40 (which is old route 66 through here). There's no sign, there's no one around or anything. They're in a farmer's field and it's all plowed around them.

Each time we come through, they look different. They're painted by local high schoolers and passersby. Here's a few photos.