SWEETWATER — Everyone's favorite ophidiophobia challenge returned to the Big Country last weekend. Sunny skies and mild temperatures on the second weekend in March means one thing for Nolan County — ...

SWEETWATER, Texas — As winter starts to turn into spring, the town of Sweetwater gets ready to host the 2025 Sweetwater Jaycees Rattlesnake Roundup. The annual event takes place the second weekend of ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360. In 1958, the Sweetwater Jaycees, of Nolan County, Texas, had trouble killing the 3,000 western diamondbacks captured for the group’s first ...

Adventure-seekers and the curious flock to West Texas each year for an annual event — the world’s largest rattlesnake roundup. Sponsored by the Sweetwater Jaycees, the community has hosted the ...

A rattlesnake handler pulls the dead snake away from the main pile during the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas on March 10, 2017. (Nathan Hunsinger / Staff Photographer) Rattlesnake ...

The World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup, now in its 67th year, took place in Sweetwater last weekend. The event began in the 1950s as a way to control the rattlesnake population within the city. Venom ...