Mobile Homes for Sale in Wild Horse Lake, Amarillo

Life in Rotor City, USA, began in the Wild Horse Lake neighborhood centered around Amarillo Lake. When the Amarillo Air Force Base was established in 1951, military families flocked to the Original Town of Amarillo. When the base closed in 1968, they began to leave, and the town's economy shrank. Today many of Wild Horse Lake's 1,300 residents live in HUD-subsidized housing next to the city's Route 66 Historic District, which includes over a mile of shops, restaurants and museums. "That's really where Amarillo kind of started with neighborhoods," says lifelong resident Penny Clark, founder of the Texas Route 66 Visitor Center. "It's a very old and very poor neighborhood." Wild Horse Lake's housing is divided into two clusters around the eastern and southwestern points of the neighborhood. Most dilapidated properties fall between South McMasters and South Fannin streets and range between $40,000 and $60,000. Front Boulevard has more traditional and ranch-style houses priced between $60,000 and $80,000, with most houses in the $90,000 to $100,000 range located between North Hughes and North Van Buren streets. "Some of those houses are nice… then the house next door is a tear-down,"