Middle Of Nowhere Abandoned Spots In Texas Panhandle - Forgotten Small Towns & Backroads After Dark

How can you not like this guy? You can tell he's a good dude. Doesnt run anywhere down. Just appriciates places & things he runs across

The tire mounds are actually covering cattle feed. There was probably a feedlot or dairy nearby and they cover the feed with tarps to protect it from the weather and put tires over the tarps to keep them in place when the wind blows.

Dang Adam, I'm a misplaced Texan presently living in east Tennessee, you're making me homesick. I am from Amarillo, I haven't seen the horizon in over 5 years to many trees and hills here. The Texas Panhandle, so flat and open you can watch your dog or your woman run away for 3 days.

I can almost guarantee that no one else on Youtube is stopping to listen to windmills. This really is world class stuff!

Those small towns in the Texas panhandle is exactly where I spent my time in the late sixties. Those abandoned restaurants and “Ol Tex” were viable back then. There were many places though that had been abandoned many many years earlier. Farm houses, buildings, and barns dilapidated from long ago, perhaps as a result of the Dust Bowl and economic depression of the thirties. Passing by those abandoned structures makes you wonder what dreams and goals had been destroyed by unforeseen catastrophes. Recall too that the early seventies brought about the gasoline shortages and prices of fuel going beyond a dollar per gallon. Most pumps, in those days, could not be set beyond ninety nine cents per gallon. The Interstates too had not yet been completed and many small towns suffered permanent economic damage from the traffic being diverted around or away from those towns when the Interstate was established. Railroads too had switched from steam to diesel resulting in towns being abandoned by the railroad personnel that serviced steam engines and crews. People who live in those towns today likely had lived there all their life. Likely they had farmland or other endeavors that supported their lifestyle and the changes imposed were not a threat to them as they chose to stay. Still, it’s disheartening to see abandoned homes and buildings wondering what had caused their demise. Near or around Dalhart Texas and all the land plowed up during the late twenties was the central location of the beginning of the Dust Bowl. Land that had been stabilized by the natural vegetation had been disturbed by plows and laid the resulting bare ground open to erosion. The winds easily picked up the top soil creating massive dust storms that devastated farms and towns. Those dust storms began as drought enveloped the area in 1930 and lasted ten years with no relief until 1936 up to 1940. I watched many a movie in that Perryton Tx movie theater too, during the late sixties.

These videos are A+++, Adam. Backroads' abandoned, Americana, I find so absolutely fascinating. Thank you, so very much for sharing these videos with us. AWESOME 👏☀️🤠🌵

I’m tied to this part of TX. Parents are buried in a town that is at least fighting to stay alive. Its heart breaking to know what these towns were just 30-40 yrs ago and now because of a few cultural cheapening motives we are losing our heart as a state and nation and sadly a world. God help us please.

Dear Adamthewoo, I am loving these beautiful backroads videos it shows us it's not all about the shiny big cities of America that counts it's the smallest and most amazing things that makes American my father used to say :" Denise a road lined with gold is beautiful in its own right but a road with bumps and hills might be hard to handle but it's those roads that builds character and life long memories plus strength "

I love when Adam talks to animals on the side of the road! Lots of small towns in the Texas panhandle struggling to keep going

I'm lovin' these back roads vids! As I watch, I'm imagining what life looked like back then. Thank you for the quiet and calmness. Stay safe.

The desolation and emptiness is beautiful. Im loving it.

That very beautiful old home in Channing was the old XIT ranch headquarters. XIT stood for 10 counties in Texas. It was sold to a group of investors in England in the 1880's to finance the construction of the state capital. The ranch was 1 million plus acres. The last of the acreage of that old ranch sold in the 1970's. That ranch was quite a legend in Texas.

I spent several years living with my grandparents on their farm outside Dalhart. The Panhandle South Plains have an austere sort of charm. The farm houses are typically surrounded by trees, often the only trees you will see, making them stand out like like atolls in a vast, empty ocean.

These videos are extremely calming. Like a dose of an escape for people stressed with urban life. Watching this from the other side of the world.

Great video, my grandpa lives in Vega. I lived in Amarillo for the first 22 years of my life before moving to LA. The never ending flatland of West Texas simultaneously induces the most unrest and tranquility I’ve ever experienced. Sometimes Elysian; at other times Dante’s 10th circle

Like the nighttime feels from the end of the day. Loving this “series” and how much of America isn’t known at all.

And they call the Dallas area North Texas lol! Thanks so much for sharing the trip. The Texas panhandle has so much history. Grew up in Amarillo. I worked in all these little towns in the early 90s for a utility company, really enjoyed meeting the people there. You got a treat being out in the evening to see the sunset. Those panhandle sunsets can show off some beautiful colors on those calm cloudless fall nights.

I am so happy you’ve done these travel-back-to- Florida videos. I am recovering from knee replacement surgery this week, and I am TOTALLY enjoying these. Thanks so much, Adam.

Adam, I want to thank you for your trip through the Texas Panhandle. My wife and I met for the first time in the fifth grade in Spearman. That was the town with all the windmills. We finished high school there and married after one year in college. That was 52 years ago. It has been awhile since we have seen Spearman and it was a great surprise to see it on your channel. Good luck on your future endeavors.

Seeing you out exploring old towns makes me want to go on my own adventure soooo incredibly bad