I have to admit that most of my Texas adventures have been south of the state’s panhandle. However, one park that I’ve enjoyed more than once was Palo Duro Canyon State Park, located only 30 miles from Amarillo near I-27. Known as “The Grand Canyon of Texas” (although they don’t have much in common in [...]
In an out-of-the-way corner of Big Bend National Park, there is an attraction that, although visited, would probably be a huge attraction if it was along a main road and in a heavily-visited national park. However, because it’s along a dirt road near the Rio Grande in the southern part of Big Bend, it’s only [...]
In my last two posts, I talked about the “primitive roadside campsites” in Big Bend National Park that are (mostly) along the paved park roads and that are along dirt roads in the southern section of the park. Today, I’d like to continue this discussion of “primitive roadside campsites” by talking about the campsites along [...]
Several times during the last several weeks I’ve posted information about trails in Big Bend National Park (Emory Peak, Big Balancing Rock, The Den, and the Oak Springs Trail). Today, I’d like to tell you about one of the great features of Big Bend—and you can drive to it! The park offers more than 50 [...]
The Den trail is an adventure without being impossible for the average hiker. It is also a way to experience the Chihuahuan Desert, and to get an idea of the real personality of the desert part of Big Bend National Park. The Den itself is an interesting geological phenomenon; really, just a canyon between [...]
One of Big Bend’s claims to fame is that it is the only national park in the US that has an entire mountain range inside of the park. The Chisos Mountains stick up out of nowhere, ascend to a height of 7,825ft, and then descend again before they have a chance to interrupt the flow [...]
In Big Bend National Park is a valley that seems full of rocks. Unlike the Chisos Basin, this part of the park is defiantly desert, but with rocks and boulders strewn everywhere, up the hillsides, in the valley, and my favorite, across each other to create a unique balancing rock arch. This is the Grapevine [...]
“The Window” in Big Bend is a very popular destination. Every year thousands of people climb down the steep trail from the Chisos Basin Visitor Center to the small V opening in the wall of a cliff, where all of the rain water collected in the Basin drains down to the base of the mountains. [...]
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