Big Bend National Park protects a chuck of the West Texas desert where the road ends at the Mexican border. The skies are as large as the horizon, and after the sun sets, the night sky glitters ...

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 remote stretch of ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — A roadrunner races down a stony path into the scrub of the Chihuahuan Desert. The creature, with its stick-thin legs and shaggy crest, exemplifies the lore of the ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas - To the city of El Paso, the Rio Grande is just a mirage. But to the Rio Grande, El Paso is probably just the same. If you look deeper down the river, specifically 300 ...

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Big Bend National Park is shutting down trails and campsites this fall-not for construction, but to clear the skies for helicopters targeting an invasive species overrunning the desert. Barbary sheep, ...

Santa Elena Canyon, arguably the most spectacular natural feature in a Big Bend National Park full of wonders, owes its existence to a river that for eons has been carving a path through sheer ...

The federal government’s $4.5 billion “Smart Wall" project will add hundreds of miles of high-tech border security, including ...