One of our favorite trails in Big Bend National Park is Santa Elena Canyon, where you hike alongside the Rio Grande River as it flows through spectacular 1,500-foot cliffs. Roundtrip Distance: 1.6 miles Elevation Change: 80 feet Average Hiking Time: 1 hour The trailhead is at the end of the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive. At the river, to access the trail you’ll have to first cross the bed of Terlingua Creek, and then climb a short but steep bank. Sometimes there’s water in the creek and sometimes it

This is the first time these birds have ever been seen nesting in Big Bend National Park. "Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas" premieres Wednesday, February 10 at 8/7c on PBS. #NaturePBS #Nature #BigBend #RioGrande #Animals #Wildlife #Hummingbirds #Birds | Nature | PBS

Official Border Wall plans have been released for the Big Bend. If fulfilled, It will devastate our wildlife and Texas public lands. People called us alarmists when we released this video nearly ten years ago. Surely a wall would never be built through Big Bend. Right? It didn’t make sense then, and doesn’t make sense now. But here we are, with immigration at a 50 year low and DHS planning to build a steel wall through Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Black Gap, and along our o