Big Bend visitors can appreciate the desert landscape on a scenic drive, on a hike or paddling down the river. It’s where the desert meets the mountains and then meets the river.

In terms of the best places for stargazing in Big Bend National Park, all you really need to do is find a spot away from ...

In Spanish, the word “lajitas” means “little flat rocks.” In the Big Bend region of West Texas, though, Lajitas stands for an ...

Big Bend National Park's Chisos Basin will close for two years starting May 1, 2025 for major construction projects.

A haven of high desert peaks set amid otherwise flat West Texas, Big Bend has been a draw for curious travelers for over a century, but given its recent boom in popularity, finding that elusive ...

Big Bend National Park features broad expanses of Chihuahuan Desert shrubland and grassland interspersed with smaller areas of high-elevation woodland in the Chisos Mountains. Rugged rocks and deep ...

How black bears crossed an international border and miles of desert to recolonize Texas’ Big Bend National Park. One day in 1988, a visitor came up to a ranger at Big Bend National Park with important ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded two exceedingly competitive grants to Bend's High Desert Museum totaling $240,337, the federal agency announced Tuesday.

Big Bend National Park sits in a spot of far West ... parks in one thanks to its distinct ecos­­ystems—river valleys, desert, and mountains—and is home to hundreds of species of wildlife ...