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.....

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.....