{"id":448769,"date":"2026-09-26T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448769\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T21:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:14:21","slug":"how-scenic-drive-became-one-of-el-pasos-most-treasured-landmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448769\/","title":{"rendered":"How Scenic Drive became one of El Paso\u2019s most treasured landmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 25, 2026, 11:18 a.m. MT<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Just days before El Paso&#8217;s Scenic Drive&#8217;s 106th anniversary, the roadway atop the Franklin Mountains has been closed indefinitely after rainstorms damaged the route that has offered views of El Paso and Jua\u0301rez for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Scenic Drive is closed in both directions &#8220;until further notice,&#8221; the El Paso Police Department posted on Facebook Sept. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 25, 2026, 11:18 a.m. MT Just days before El Paso&#8217;s Scenic Drive&#8217;s 106th anniversary, the roadway atop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[203,138,140,139,103227,804,805,44732,570,18378,14386,6737,14385,888,660,217,8462,8461,216,36],"class_list":["post-448769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-accessmetered","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-sourceel-paso-times","tag-sstsnewshistory","tag-sstsnhistory","tag-tagcharles-davis","tag-tagel-paso","tag-tagfacebook","tag-taggeographic-reference","tag-taghistorical-sites-buildings","tag-taghistory","tag-taglocal-affiliate-travel","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagtourist-destinations","tag-tagtravel-guides-travelogues","tag-tx","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}