From maps to ... magnificent Santa Elena Canyon. With its higher elevations and tree coverage, the Chisos Mountains are a popular destination for hiking in Big Bend National Park.

That dip is called the Big Bend. And within this area, you’ll find one of the largest, most remote national parks in the continental U.S. Big Bend National Park ... Canyon Trail, or Santa Elena ...

At first glance, the hardscrabble terrain of Big Bend National ... park, follow the pathway over Terlingua Creek to get a glimpse of one of the park’s most famous sights, Santa Elena Canyon.

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ... climbing the challenging Lost Mine Trail or paddling through Santa Elena Canyon. We enter the national park by driving south from Marathon, going through Persimmon ...

Big Bend has beautiful Santa Elena Canyon and the stunning Window and ... And while he is as loath to choose one Texas national park over the other as he is to choose between brisket and ribs ...

Big Bend National Park in Texas could soon expand by thousands of acres. Pictured is the mouth of Santa Elena Canyon in the park.(Dan Leeth / Special Contributor) Big Bend National Park in Texas ...

Last spring, many visitors to Santa Elena Canyon were startled ... state with just two national parks and a state park system struggling to keep up with demand, Big Bend helps preserve what ...

The rocks of Big Bend are a complex lot ... a 40-mile-wide trough—most of the present-day park—sank along fault lines, leaving the cliffs of Santa Elena Canyon to the west and the Sierra ...

Camping in Big Bend National Park takes a little preplanning ... the Chisos Mountains in Southwest Texas, the park is home to the Santa Elena Canyon, a limestone cliff canyon artfully carved ...