The sellout figure was invented on opening night because the PA announcer liked the number two - and 12,222 stuck for four decades. The Don Haskins Center at 151 Glory Road in El Paso opened on 3 February 1977 as the Special Events Center, a 10-million-dollar octagonal arena on the University of Texas at El Paso campus that replaced Memorial Gym as home of Miner basketball. Its street address is the story: Glory Road was renamed for the 1966 NCAA championship won by Texas Western - as UTEP was t.....

A cornerstone of the independent music scene in El Paso, the Lowbrow Palace is a small live-music venue that has become a favoured stop for touring bands passing through the far west of Texas. Located on East Robinson Avenue near the university district, the intimate room has built a loyal following for its eclectic programming and relaxed, no-frills character, offering a vital platform for both emerging and established acts in a border city often overlooked on the touring map. The venue is a c.....

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.....

The stadium is carved into the Franklin Mountains at 3,910 feet, and the first play ever run in it went 54 yards for a touchdown. Sun Bowl Stadium at 2701 Sun Bowl Drive on the UTEP campus opened on 21 September 1963 with Texas Western's Larry Durham breaking his run on the opening snap - a 30,000-seat county-built bowl that grew to 52,000 in 1982. The stadium carries two football identities: home of the UTEP Miners, and host of the Sun Bowl itself - one of college football's oldest bowl games,.....

West El Paso built itself a Scottsdale-style resort club, and the promoters stopped needing to send the city's partygoers to Vegas. The Elmont Social is the live entertainment arm of The Elmont at 240 West Castellano Drive in Montecillo, El Paso's first smart-growth community, opened on April 19, 2025, as part of a 95,000-square-foot complex. The parent property covers the full resort menu: a swim club with a lazy river, zero-entry pool, three large slides and two full bars; the Evaga Desert Ki.....

Texas's first integrated stage performance at a public university happened here in 1956, five years before the Freedom Rides. Magoffin Auditorium, at 151 Glory Road on the University of Texas at El Paso campus, has been the Sun City's academic concert hall since 1951. The building was first proposed in 1941 but delayed by the Second World War, finally rising in the modified Bhutanese architectural style that makes UTEP's campus unique in the hemisphere, named for James W. Magoffin, the pioneer .....