Inside the canyon Back in Santa Elena Canyon, Gandy and I sit on boulders and swish our dirty shoes in a pool of water, trying to clean off the sticky mud. It’s a sunny day in April, and I’ve ...

Boquillas Canyon Trail —A 1.4-mile roundtrip trail labeled moderate. Santa Elena Canyon Trail —A 1.7-mile moderate trail through the dramatic scenery of Santa Elena Canyon. It can be muddy.

There are campgrounds if you feel like overnighting it, too. Santa Elena Canyon in West Texas. Caddo Lake State Park - This park houses the 25,000-acre Caddo Lake, which borders Texas and Louisiana.

It's also one of the easiest—you don't even need to get out of your car. The drive starts near the park's Maverick entrance and continues for 30 miles to Santa Elena Canyon.

The next day we entered Santa Elena Canyon, 8 miles long with walls 1,500 ft high and about 50 feet wide at the narrowest part. At the entrance was Rock Slide Rapid, a narrow winding channel ...

Largest national park in Texas among best in the U.S. for winter travel By Priscilla Aguirre, Senior Trending Reporter Updated Dec 21, 2022 1:12 p.m.

From the mighty walls of Santa Elena Canyon to the desert bluffs of the Aguja Formation, the rocks of the park teem with more than 135 million years’ worth of fossils.

Santa Elena Canyon is a narrow 7-mile long canyon where the Rio Grande has sliced through the limestone Mesa de Anguila. The trail is an easy hike, about 1.7 miles round trip.

In the same year, the picturesque Santa Elena Canyon, one of the most popular sights in Big Bend, also ran dry for the first time in at least 15 years, according to the National Oceanic and ...