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 ...

11. Drive into the Santa Elena Canyon The Santa Elena Canyon is an iconic place to visit in Big Bend National Park. It features dramatic 15,000 foot canyon walls created by master sculpture ...

But the thirty-mile Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive, named after the park’s first ... southwestern edge of Big Bend—to reach Entrance Camp, at the head of Santa Elena Canyon, where I knew that ...

It’s late afternoon in Santa Elena Canyon – a 19-mile gorge that separates Big Bend National Park in West Texas and three national parks in Mexico – and we’re setting up camp along a ...

Pam LeBlanc checks out a unique spot in Big Bend National Park. Luna and Johnson strike deal to end proxy voting feud Kurt Russell delights fans as he reunites with co-star after more than 40 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Big Bend National Park ranks high on the list at #13 while Guadalupe Mountains National Park falls behind at #52. Travel Lemming’s national parks ranking is based on an analysis of data scoring ...

Big Bend National Park sits in a spot of far West Texas where fields of cacti meet limestone canyons carved by rivers. This vast stretch of wilderness is often referred to as three parks in one ...

Big Bend National Park is one of the most popular vacation spots in all of Texas, welcoming more than 500,000 visitors from around the world each year. Often referred to as Texas' Gift to the ...