Back in January, as a standoff over funding for President Donald Trump’s Southern boarder wall led to a government shutdown, a filmmaker and a highline walker had an grand idea. They hatched a plan to ...

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 ...

Coming soon to a package near you: A glimpse of Big Bend National Park. The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a new Priority Mail stamp depicting a scene familiar to many Texans—the Rio Grande ...

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 ...

Experience Santa Elena Canyon from every angle as we explore its towering cliffs from above and its winding paths from below.

Mud slurps at my shoes as I slog along the banks of the Rio Grande, deep in the heart of Santa Elena Canyon at Big Bend National Park. In front of me, Charlie Gandy, founder of the Cross Texas Trail, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...