MARFA is an oasis of culture in West Texas’ Chihuahuan Desert. Explore world-class art and unique locally-owned businesses. Enjoy a diversity of cuisine and historic architecture. Experience the largest dark sky preserve in the world and trek the Big Bend. Slow down and take in the simple beauty of our West Texas community. Leave your expectations behind and GET TO KNOW MARFA.
Art
Galleries • Installations
MARFA is unique in the juxtaposition of environment and story. Art created and displayed here is inextricable from the landscape and history. Donald Judd may be one of the more famous artists to call MARFA his home, but this community fosters a special connection with artists, creators, and seekers of all kinds. Discover the many galleries and installations of MARFA.
Culture
Food and Drink • Shops • Wellness
MARFA is an unlikely collection of centennial and bicentennial ranching and farming families from Mexican and immigrant settlers, art nerds, and hardy travelers who visited once, twice, ten times, until they couldn’t imagine living anywhere else and just stayed. MARFA is a community made up of locals (both old and new) and visitors who are drawn to the slower pace of living and forced simplicity of this big little town.
History
Historic Sites • Museums
MARFA has a wealth of stories both wonderful and tragic. It has had ages and eras. You can’t walk down its streets without feeling like you are time traveling.
Mystery
MARFA Lights
MARFA is spontaneous. You never know who or what you might encounter in MARFA, it could be anything or nothing and both are special. It speaks to those who are willing to create, be inspired, and be surprised.
Land
Parks • Recreation • Scenic Routes
You can’t escape the influence of the land in MARFA. You are constantly aware of it and affected by it. Time and distance are forces which you may ignore elsewhere but not here. The unique combination of high desert, grasslands, and mountains is special.
Sky
Stargazing • Big Sky
Day and night. Sun and stars. Primordial sources of beauty that are richly displayed for any who take the journey to MARFA. This town cares for its natural resources and requires you to care for them as well. The weather expresses the full range of the North American climate even while it maintains the distinctive character of the West.