I don't want to say the road from Presidio to Marfa has only one landmark — there are a few historic markers at ranch gates, and the Chinati Mountains are close enough to the west to count off the peaks as you pass them (or signs for them) — but, there's only one obvious stop for a cyclist, Shafter.

It's an old silver mining town with the ruins of several stone buildings from an old mining operation. There are also a few currently occupied houses and a Catholic church, where we got water from a spigot another cycle tourist told me about three years prior.