It’s late afternoon in Santa Elena Canyon ... Yet the Big Bend frontier isn’t totally closed. You can pass through the border legally at Boquillas Crossing in the southeast corner of ...

Last spring, many visitors to Santa Elena Canyon were startled to find themselves walking beneath the 1,500-foot bluffs on a dry riverbed. But in other ways, Big Bend has changed for the better.

David Courtney, a.k.a. the Texanist, is a senior writer. Big Bend also has the Rio Grande, and thereby easy access to Mexico, at the Boquillas Crossing. But Guadalupe Mountains has eight of the ...

Of all the wild places along the U.S.-Mexico border, Big Bend National Park, named for the great curve of the Rio Grande, is the gem. In Santa Elena Canyon ... barrier. "People will build stuff ...

One morning pretty early on in the project, we were at Santa Elena Canyon at dawn ... making a film like this is our chance to bring people to Big Bend who might not otherwise ever make it ...

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 ...

The Rio Grande trickling through the Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park in March.Credit...Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times Supported by By Daniel Modlin Daniel Modlin is a ...