We Explore a Few Trails at Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park consists of 1200 square miles of high desert, mountains, and river country with the Rio Grande on its south border.  It is off the beaten track in a remote part of Texas and not as visited as many other national parks.  It is named for the almost 90 degree turn the Rio Grande River takes from flowing southeast to flow northeast.

We watched a couple of movies about the park on Wednesday at two of the visitor centers.  We also took a scenic drive and hiked a few of the shorter trails.  In the picture above you can see the Rio Grande River below, and Mexico beyond.

The park is larger than the state of Rhode Island.  This break in the Chitos Mountains is called "The Window"  We did see a Roadrunner and one nice long snake.

On our afternoon hike Karen got to try out her new "bandi" that her daughter, Becky, gave her at Christmas.  It worked well at holding her phone and camera as she hiked the desert and mountain trails.

When we drove up to the higher elevations the desert changed to forest and we saw this white-tailed deer.  We had a good day exploring Big Bend.