Lajitas

Lajitas means “small flat rocks” in Spanish, so named for the layered limestone formed by ancient seas. Today,Lajitas is home to a beautiful resort on the legendary Rio Grande, which is nestled in between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park.

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Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park has a small community nestled in a beautiful valley over a mile high in the Chisos Mountains. The Chisos Mountains Lodge is located here, along with ranger and information station, restaurant, and convenience store.

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Alpine

Alpine is the Hub of the Big Bend and a major service center. There are 400 hotel rooms, along with restaurants, shopping, and groceries. It is the home of Sul Ross State University, and annual events like Gallery Night and the Cowboy Poetry Gathering.

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Night Life

Along with a variety of dining options in Marathon, Big Bend National Park, Terlingua, Study Butte and Lajitas, there is a surprising night life with live music at several locations just about every weekend, almost nightly during busy seasons.

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Culture

Desert environments have inspired great philosophers, poets, artists and dreamers of every description. Once described as a dusty bohemia, Big Bend enjoys an abundance of resident musicians, painters, sculptors, photographers, lapidarists, ceramicists, and talented actors.

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Visitor Center

On May 1, 2008, a group of excited supporters attended the formal opening of the new Visitor Center for Big Bend National Park.

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Santa Elena

nature trail enters its shady depths, 8 miles west of Castolon, accessible by either Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive or the Old Maverick Road.

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Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive

Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive is the most interesting of the paved  sightseeing routes in Big Bend National Park, giving the greatest variety of habitats, geology and a variety of interesting short walks and interpretive pull overs.

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Mariscal

Mariscal is the most remote of the Park River Canyons, and the only way to see it is by river. Getting to the put-in point at Talley requires over 30 miles of driving on rough dirt road. It is important to check road and weather conditions before entering this remote desert backcountry. Difficult as it may be to get there, the trip is worth well worth the effort.

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Lower Canyons

Below Boquillas Canyon and the boundary of Big Bend National Park, lies the third longest wilderness river section in the continental US. River enthusiasts putting in at Heath Canyon Ranch, across the river from La Linda, Coahuila, must travel over 85 river miles before the next public access at Dryden Crossing.

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Chisos Mountains

The Chisos Mountains are the heart of Big Bend National Park. They extend twenty miles from Punta de la Sierra in the southwest to Panther Junction in the northeast. It is the only mountain range totally contained within a single national park.

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Colorado Canyon

Colorado Canyon, in Big Bend Ranch State Park, is the most accessible of the area's major river canyons, and offers vehicle accessible views of the river as well as a choice of short float trips.

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Rio Grande Canyons

The Rio Grande is a continental river which forms the border between Mexico and the US and gives the Big Bend and the state of Texas their distinct shapes. The Rio Grande begins in the high snowfields of the continental divide, in the San Juan range of central Colorado. After a sparkling plunge towards the east, the young Rio Grande bends south to water the fields of the San Luis Valley

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