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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

The back wall of the stage is the Franklin Mountains themselves - native stone framing an open-air proscenium set inside a box canyon. McKelligon Canyon Amphitheatre, at 1500 McKelligon Canyon Drive in El Paso, opened on 4 July 1976 as the city's Bicentennial gift to itself. The origin is civic through and through: El Paso County bought the canyon in 1931 from the estate of realtor M.J. McKelligon - who had grazed cattle there - built a WPA-era pavilion in the 1930s, and four decades later city...