Vote for Your Favorite Heritage and Outdoors Spots on the EP Times Ballot

Once again the El Paso Times is conducting their Reader's Favorites poll. Categories include Home Services, Entertainment, Groceries, Automotive, Eating Out and Financial. (There's also a "General" category for things like best service and best employer.)

Under "Entertainment" there are museums and art galleries and campgrounds among other "places". El Paso County Historical Commission Chairman, Bernie Sargent, recommends that people use the "Museum" spot under "Entertainment" to write in places that get overlooked since they aren't museums. Examples could be the Magoffin Home or Keystone Heritage Park. 

Expanding on Bernie's great idea, some of you might want to vote for your favorite hiking or birding or rock climbing spot by using the "Museum" or "Campground" space on the EP Times ballot.

Bernie Sargent raises a good point. We think about favorites under a narrow set of categories. However, what about our favorite heritage site in El Paso? What about our favorite place to go hiking, bicycling, rock climbing, strolling and/or birding? You can write in Franklin Mountains State Park or a specific spot like the Schaffer Shuffle or the Nature Trail that the El Paso Master Naturalists have worked so diligently on to make attractive. You may want to specify the B-36 crash site or the knife edge on the ridge or even Scenic Drive on Scenic Sunday. Birders also have favorite spots in the upper and lower valleys. 

Heritage and eco/outdoors tourism is big business in other places. Sure wouldn't hurt to tout these places in El Paso. Big dollar opportunity or not - it makes sense to get others interested in our history and our great outdoors.

Go HERE for the poll. Use one of the slots under entertainment to vote for your favorite heritage and outdoors spot.

Thank you, Bernie Sargent!