"The Crown Jewel" of the Texas CCC

While visiting West Texas, Martina and I stayed at Indian Lodge, which was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Indian Lodge is located inside Davis Mountain State Park and is owned and operated by Texas Parks and Wildlife, and is, to the best of my knowledge, the only hotel in Texas with such an arrangement. 

Indian Lodge is a beautiful place. It is a large white-adobe structure with thirty-nine rooms and is built like a Native American pueblo. In the rooms, the cane ceiling is supported by beams made of Ponderosa pine, and the rustic furniture was crafted by the young men of the CCC. We were pleased to discover that our room even had an adobe fireplace. While we were at Indian Lodge, I woke up early in the morning and stepped outside to watch the sunrise. I took the picture below on my phone on a cold December morning not long after dawn.

And speaking of West Texas, here's a little Jimmie Dale Gilmore for you.