Buffalo Gap is small enough that an afternoon will cover its main sights. The Buffalo Gap Historic Village is the obvious anchor — twenty preserved frontier buildings on a single grass site — and a meal at the Perini Ranch Steakhouse is the other reason a steady trickle of West Texans drives out here.
The surrounding Callahan Divide country is pleasantly empty rolling-hill terrain dotted with old live oaks, a few over eight hundred years old. Abilene State Park just west of town has an outdoor pool built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and an easy network of short hiking trails.