Canyon, Texas, is situated in the Texas Panhandle, just 14 miles south of Amarillo, and serves as the Randall County seat. With a population of about 16,700 and covering eight square miles, the City is easily accessible via I-27, Highway 60, and I-40. Canyon has become a destination for visitors from around the world, as it is the gateway to Palo Duro Canyon State Park, the second largest natural Canyon in the US and the #1 visited State Park in Texas with 467,000 visitors in 2021; the site of the largest history museum in Texas, the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum; and home to the longest running outdoor musical drama, TEXAS, which started in 1965 and has since become the most attended outdoor drama in the United States, seen by more than three million visitors from 100 countries.