Closing the Chisos Mountains and one of the most beautiful areas of Big Bend National Park for two years or more is a very big mistake. The National Park Service says that only the Chisos Basin area ...

If you look at a map of Texas, the very left point is El Paso. From there, let your eyes wander southeast. You see that dip ...

Big Bend National Park in Texas offers lots of great spots for outdoor recreation, including this trail that hiking ...

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 ...

On the last day of August 1894, a young U.S. customs inspector named Everett E. Townsend was tracking stolen mules in trans-Pecos Texas. The mules and their rustlers led him into the green and ...

As we drove into Big Bend National Park in June for a family vacation, memories spanning five decades scrolled through my mind. I have memories of hiking every trail, ascending the highest mountain ...

Searches are underway to find a hiker who has disappeared in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Christy Perry has been missing since November 9 when she failed to show up for a camping reservation in ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — The National Park Service (NPS) is now accepting bids for a major infrastructure project in Big Bend National Park, aimed at improving critical facilities in one of ...

More than 6 inches of snow reported at Big Bend National Park after mid-March 2023 snowstorm. Read full article: Man taken to hospital after hit-and-run in front of Northwest Side fire station, SAPD ...

The Chisos Mountains rise some 6,000 feet above the Chihuahuan Desert — a string of relatively wet, cool oases high above the arid scrubland. These "sky islands," isolated from surrounding ecosystems, ...