Comanche Peak as seen from the intersection of Rim Road and Scenic Drive

Unlike Crazy Cat Mountain just to the west, Comanche Peak at 5,225 ft. should have slid off the mountainside during the Crazy Cat landslide. A series of faults surround the peak, dropping it enough to lock it in place. Comanche Peak is a block of Ordovician Upham Formation and Aleman Formation. (adapted from A Pocket Guide to Geological Sites of El Paso by William Cornell.) The Upham is a famous Ordovician layer that has been traced all the way to Nova Scotia

The Franklin Mountains antenna farm on Comanche Peak supports TV, AM/FM-radio, cellular, and other broadcast communication needs in the greater El Paso TX/Las Cruces NM area.