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Texas Monthly – Nature Calls at This Award-Winning Rest Stop on I-10

Texas Monthly – Nature Calls at This Award-Winning Rest Stop on I-10

Posted on July 31, 2025

The Pecos County Safety Rest Area, in Fort Stockton.The Coordinates series celebrates lesser-known locales worth visiting across the state. It can be hard to appreciate the landscape of West Texas when you’re hurtling toward the horizon, tumbleweeds in your wake and a Tarantino-ish playlist making you feel as if you’re on your way to a shoot-out. “You’re going eighty miles an hour and you don’t really appreciate what’s growing there,” says Elizabeth Chu Richter, of Corpus Christi–based Richter Architects. She and her partner in life and work, David Richter, designed the Pecos County Safety Rest Area to invite travelers to slow down and take in the mountainous terrain. The stop opened in 2018 and includes not only the expected amenities but also a nature trail and sitting areas with metal canopies that evoke West Texas…

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