V is for Vega

Woo hoo!!!  I checked off one of the most challenging letters on my Rt. 66 trip.

Vega is a small community about 30 miles west of Amarillo.  It’s located on the original Route 66 and is often called the “Crossroads of America.”  Arriving on a Sunday afternoon, there wasn’t really anything open.  But I did find the restored Magnolia Station, which was the second gas station to be built in Vega in the early 20’s.  It was two stories which allowed the operator to live upstairs and always be available to customers stopping for gas and other supplies.

On the same lot as Magnolia is one of the Quanah Parker arrows.  The twenty-two foot arrows, located throughout the high plains of Texas, commemorates various places where the Comanches, and their last chief, Quanah Parker, hunted, traded, lived, traveled, and fought in the late 1800s.  There are over 70 arrows; here is a list of the counties you can find them in.  The  Vega arrow notes a Comanche camping spot as they traveled north to Tucumcari and Tecovas Springs.

Vega is also home to Dot’s Mini Museum and the Milburn-Price Culture Museum.