Amarillo vs Pensacola: Battle of the panhandle cities.

[IowanFarmer]

Originally Posted by Ivory Lee Spurlock

Amarillo is located on the Great Plains, and in a way the Great Plains is a desert. The definition of the word "desert" is a region that is arid and has sparse and widely spaced vegetation or none at all. It would be easy for a person to get lost in the Great Plains when you consider the fact the Great Plains has so few trees and it's flat as a pancake and every direction looks the same, leaving the lost individual with no clue the nearest way to civilization. So, yeah, I think the Great Plains could be considered a desert.

There's a lot of vegetation around Amarillo. Just not a lot of trees.

About an hour west of Amarillo on I-40, you make a very sudden transition into the desert. Amarillo isn't in the desert, but you don't have to go far to get there.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by IowanFarmer

There's a lot of vegetation around Amarillo. Just not a lot of trees.

I think you are confusing telephone poles with trees. The caprock is about as treeless as it gets.

There are some trees in Palo Duro Canyon but up top, any trees there are were planted by someone.

[IowanFarmer]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

I think you are confusing telephone poles with trees. The caprock is about as treeless as it gets.

There are some trees in Palo Duro Canyon but up top, any trees there are were planted by someone.

Grass, wheat, and corn count as vegetation.