Take a scenic ride across the West Texas plains as we follow U.S. Route 84 for 46 miles east from Post to Snyder. This route carves a straight path through the heart of Garza and Scurry counties, offering a high-speed glimpse of cotton country, energy infrastructure, and small-town character in equal measure.
We begin in the city of Post, a community named not for its location on a mail route, but for cereal magnate Charles William Post, who founded the town in 1907 as a model agricultural colony. US-84 departs Post at the junction with US-380, heading east along a divided highway that quickly stretches out into the high plains of the Llano Estacado. The flatness here is almost surreal—endless fields occasionally broken by pump jacks, distant grain elevators, or the slow spin of modern wind turbines. The land’s productivity is its story: cotton reigns supreme, but ranching and energy play strong supporting roles.
As we cruise through this wide-open country, the road maintains a fast but steady rhythm. Intermittent access roads and infrequent crossroads hint at rural homesteads tucked far from the highway’s edge. The route passes near Lake Alan Henry, a reservoir to the southeast, though not visible from the main road. Still, the surrounding terrain gradually begins to shift: subtle dips and rises appear, and the cotton fields give way to more mixed scrubland as we approach Scurry County.
Our arrival in Snyder is heralded by the gradual buildup of industry and housing on the horizon. Unlike many towns its size, Snyder feels slightly spread out—thanks to both the wide footprint of oil and gas operations nearby and the presence of Western Texas College, a small but influential educational anchor. US-84 eases into the city as an expressway, offering interchanges and frontage roads that hint at Snyder’s role as a local hub. The route ends at the junction with US-180, where long-distance travelers may continue east toward Roby and Abilene, or loop back into town for rest and supplies.
This segment of US-84 may not boast sweeping mountain vistas or winding curves, but it delivers something quintessentially Texan: big sky, bigger land, and a road that seems to know exactly where it’s going. Whether you’re tracing the lines of a map or the echoes of early 20th-century ambition, the drive from Post to Snyder captures the enduring rhythm of rural Texas life.
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Inner Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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