It’s not just RVers who enjoy the ever-changing scenery in Big Bend.
Hiking in the Chisos Mountains is difficult and these steps helped.
The Rio Grande River in Santa Elena Canyon is an opportunity to cool off.
Adobe ruins in the ghost town of Terlingua.
were well worth the effort to see, and in no time we were hiking along the ridges of the vertical canyon walls peering over the edge at the river far below. The trail finally began to descend and brought us to a cool, pretty grotto filled with huge gray boulders that marched out into the Rio Grande from the shore. Scrambling out onto some of these immense stepping stones, we had a stunning view of the river where it took a turn and disappeared between two towering cliff walls that glowed orange in the setting sun.
Big Bend offers far more than just rigorous hikes into raw, wild land, however. Just outside the far western edge of the park, the ghost town of Terlingua breathes life into the spirits of Mexican miners from a century ago. A cinnabar mining operation brought many miners from Mexico to this area, and their adobe homes still stand in various stages of decay. Wandering through these small, unique dwellings elicits images of a primitive life lived far from the luxuries of civilization.
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