24 hours in Marathon Texas | A One Day Travel Guide to Marathon

This month’s 10-on-10 comes from Marathon, Texas where we spend day 88 of our 100 day road trip across the US.

Marathon, Texas is two towns over from Marfa, Texas, (which was one of our favorite cities of our whole road trip). After leaving Marfa we decided we wanted to explore more of west Texas so we set our sights on Marathon. We stopped quickly in Alpine along the way to mail out some packages and grab a small bite to eat, (which by the way, The Smokin’ Cuban is worth the stop to Alpine alone).

Marathon was much smaller than Marfa and once we settled into our RV spot at the Marathon Motel and RV spot, we set to explore the town on foot and proceeded to stick with our rule of only clicking the shutter once to capture the moment. While we were in Marfa, everything was closed on Sundays and Mondays.

We arrived to Marathon to find that everything was closed on Tuesdays there, (except the Gage Hotel that has some of the best margaritas EVER! Get the prickly pear one. yum).