 Two miles south of Dalhart is Rita Blanca Canyon, site of Rita Blanca Lake State Park.Dalhart is located closer to six other state capitals than to Texas' capital of Austin.In surface mileage (over major highways), Dalhart is from Austin, but is from Santa Fe, New Mexico, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from Denver, Colorado, from Cheyenne, Wyoming, from Topeka, Kansas, and from Lincoln, Nebraska.