My husband, our three boys, and I had been hiking the Santa Elena Canyon Trail at Big Bend National ... baby wipes in hand, trying our best to clean up the three boys sitting on the truck ...

“It’s a geological cathedral,” Gandy says of this stretch of the trail, between 1,000-foot cliff walls. We agree this section, about three miles upstream of the mouth of Santa Elena ...

There has been a record increase in hiking reported in Texas as residents ... Parking spots at the most popular areas, Chisos Basin and Santa Elena Canyon, are full by late morning.