Given my deep and enduring interest in the cosmos, you can imagine how thrilled I was to discover that one of the best ...

I hadn't realized just how massive Big Bend National Park would feel ... Getting to one of the park's most famous photo spots, The Balanced Rock, meant driving on an extremely intense rocky ...

Big Bend National Park sits in a spot of far West Texas where ... then towards the Chisos Mountains and Mule Ears, a distinctive rock formation that resembles the ears of a mule.

It must be a combination of the remoteness, the natural beauty as the light plays off the rocks in a different ... and ...

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 ...

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

It's just a short six hour drive west of San Antonio, TX, that's where you'll find the largest National Park in The Lone Star State. Did you know that despite the massive size of Texas there are only ...

Though these birds have recovered somewhat, they are still a protected species, which is why the NPS is closing parts of Big Bend National Park during the nesting period. The post Big Bend National ...