Skip the expected for this underrated trail.

If you spend a long enough time in a city — any city, even the magical ones I’m lucky enough to visit regularly — then it won’t be long until you start feeling Mother Nature calling out to your spirit ...

Rock formations in Big Bend National Park in Texas. 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 in the Texas border ...

Big Bend National Park, one of the country’s most rugged adventure getaways, lies in a Rhode Island-sized pocket of southwest Texas. To reach it, travelers must drive more than three hours from ...

Three lawmakers - U.S. Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ben Ray Luján D-New Mexico, and U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio - introduced a bill in Congress last month to acquire roughly 6,100 acres ...

Some parks get drive-by visitors stopping on their way somewhere else. Not Big Bend. From the Wild and Scenic Rio Grande to the sky islands of the Chisos Mountains and all the canyons, Cretaceous-era ...

A major closure is coming to a popular area at Big Bend National Park in Texas. The national park reminded visitors of two large construction projects that will close the Chisos Basin starting in ...

Former park leaders are urging the projects be rejected.

Federal officials outline where barriers, roads and surveillance technology are planned as activists continue opposing the ...

As the holidays approach and crowds begin to swell across Texas' national parks, one of the state's largest and most recognizable landscapes is issuing a blunt reminder to visitors: leave no trace ...