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Looks like more smiling faces as Mr Dave Durant from The Stable Performance Cars delivers the $20,000 donation from our 2025 event.
Mark your calendars as the 2026 event is on track for 9-12 October next year. Keep an eye out for an event page and we will let you know when registration opens.

We got a little press from the Alpine Avalanche

Door clings for this year's Big Bend Octane Fest came out great!

20 years is a long time.

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Blink while driving through West Texas and you might miss an iconic state institution: the Prada Marfa "store."

On October 1, the 25-by-15 foot art installation will have occupied its dusty roadside spot for 20 years. Its strangeness and its bizarre blend of sincerity and camp has long enraptured art lovers and academics, introducing a new generation to Marfa’s way-out-there hipness, even though it’s 37 miles northwest of the town of around 1,800 residents.

"It represents a turning point in the way that art is conceived and what it represents in the world,” architect and activist Ronald Rael says, noting that it’s been called the first Instagrammable architecture. “It’s not quite architecture, it’s not quite art, it’s not land art, necessarily. It’s something entirely different.” Read more about how Prada Marfa came to be here: txmnth.ly/46BwpnS

📸: Nick Simonite

Please pray for everyone along the Guadalupe and Comal Rivers and other areas in the Texas Hill country.

Almost 46 yrs ago.....

For those traveling IH10 towards El Paso from San Antonio on the way to Big Bend Octane Fest 2025

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Backlash erupts over closure of popular Big Bend National Park spot The area will close this summer due to two large construction projects.