Routes, Drive Times & Road Tips to Big BendBig Bend sits deep in far West Texas. Whether you’re coming from El Paso, Midland/Odessa, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, or Dallas/Fort Worth, choose the route that matches your arrival town and the part of the park you want...
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Where Nature, Adventure, and Discovery Meet
Big Bend is home to a few remarkable communities: Marathon, Study Butte, Terlingua Ghost Town, Lajitas, and Big Bend National Park. Communities offer services, amenities, and entertainment. Accommodations run the range from convenient and comfortable to resort luxury. A variety of guided outdoor activities are available. Big Bend is a diverse region with endless possibilities for adventure and discovery.
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Adventure, Relaxation, and Everything In Between
The Big Bend is named for the vast curve of the Rio Grande in remote southwest Texas. It is a wildly beautiful natural region, with a complex and fascinating history. Over one million acres of public land including Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park offer hiking, camping, river running, horse riding, mountain bicycling, birding, jeep touring, and abundant sightseeing opportunities on paved and improved roads.
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Adventure Awaits in Big Bend
From Relaxing Getaways to Rugged Expeditions
Big Bend offers many exciting activities, from sightseeing in the family car and enjoying the amenities of a comfortable lodge, to hard-core wilderness adventures, and everything in between. People visit Big Bend to hike, camp, ride horses, paddle the river, pedal bicycles, ride motorcycles, look for wildlife, look for nightlife, and to get a life. Some work hard at it, others let professionals do the heavy lifting. A small community of experienced outfitters and activity providers arrange excursions of all descriptions, as well as provide good local information for visitors.
Out here, the noise disappears.
No crowds, no signal—just desert, river, and sky that goes on forever.
Come see what Big Bend actually feels like.
We’ll take you there.
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The Big Bend of Texas is terrible. You absolutely should not fly yourself there and land on the 3TE8 dirt strip. Definitely don’t talk to Alex and stay at the terlingualonghorn or rent a Jeep from Trans-Pecos Jeeps. By all means don’t make the mistake of thinking bigbendranchsp is worth going to or bigbendnps has anything like Yosemite to offer. Don’t choose furtheradventuresbigbend to go floating the Rio Grande because good guides and small groups are terrible.
But if nothing else, remember… Chinga el muro!
*ANNOUNCEMENT*
FRIDAY BURGER NITE IS NOW SATURDAY BURGER NITE~~*
due to the extreme winds today, we’re moving our almost famous Friday burger night to Saturday~~*
all details remain the same:
this SATURDAY in the courtyard burgers & drinks @ 5
the satisfying sounds of COMMON LAW COUSINS (Lauren Gurgiolo & Beth Chrisman)
@ 7
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spring has sprung, let’s have some fun
📸: lehrence
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Desert Bighorns were eradicated from TX 50+ years ago - today there are hundreds, and auction tags generate millions of dollars that go directly to TX conservation funding annually. Throwing that away over a border wall nobody wants is a bad plan. 4/4 ATX Capitol Rally is still on. See y’all on the South Steps
Conservationists & hunters have gone to extremes to bring bighorns back to Texas, forming a vital coalition for public lands protection. Bighorns are back due to extensive support & funding nationwide, but in Texas they’re still in trouble. According to the wildsheepfoundation, we had 1800 desert bighorns a decade ago, and we have around 400 now. We aren’t going to lose them again.
Our public lands belong to the bighorns, the elk, the deer, the bears, but most of all to Texans. None of these creatures can pass through the border wall and water crises pose an existential threat to all of us. The current wall plans will be felt downriver in the national park and in Black Gap WMA, a key refuge for bighorns.
Our public lands belong to everybody. We’re going to protect them together.
Film Credit - PBS: Nature film Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas
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Neither PBS nor any of the creators of this content endorse nor advocate for the 4/4 Rally or any political statement or opinion in this post or elsewhere.
Black & white or color? Zoom or wide? What do yall think? 🖤🤍🌈 🔎
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THIS is what we are fighting for ❤️
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Gladiator meets the Night Sky. 🌌
Featuring tonymaples stellar overland Jeep Gladiator build complimented by the best night skies in Texas, and the Chisos mountain range of Big Bend.
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CBP’s new “statement” isn’t enough. This ain’t over. ATX Capitol Rally. South Steps. 4/4. 4:00. Follow nobigbendwall & tell ya friends
According to the bigbendsentinel, physical wall plans have been removed from “scenic sections of River Road and popular Rio Grande access points in Big Bend Ranch State Park” via an unofficial non-press statement. Walls through “Redford, Presidio and up the river to Fort Quitman seem more certain than ever, leaving many landowners concerned that their livelihoods with ranching and farming will be destroyed.”
They need to guarantee they won’t put lights and construction zones anywhere near the largest dark sky preserve on Earth, that our aquifers and river won’t be drained, that steel walls and razor wire won’t destroy our parks downstream, that they won’t cut our neighbors off from their land, that they won’t dynamite the burial sites in Presidio or the cemetery in Langtry. Our neighbors continue to receive letters that this will happen.
If they can’t guarantee that, we will - we can fix this together. Viva el Rio. Never give up.
Save our national and state park!
No Al Muro! Call your representatives and say no to the wall!
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Exploring the Buena Suerte Jeep Tour inside Big Bend Ranch State Park delivers a rugged adventure across some of the most dramatic desert terrain in Texas. 🚙
The guided route climbs across rocky trails, dry creek beds, and steep desert hills while offering sweeping views of the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert and distant mountain ridges. ⛰️ Riding in a capable Jeep makes it possible to reach remote areas that few visitors ever see, with the vehicle carefully navigating uneven surfaces, loose rock, and narrow paths. 🏜️ Along the way, guides share stories about the region’s geology, wildlife, and history, adding depth to the journey through this vast landscape. 🦅
The combination of off road driving, wide open scenery, and quiet desert beauty makes the Buena Suerte Jeep Tour an unforgettable way to experience the wild side of West Texas. 🤠
#Jeeptour #BigBendRanchStatePark #VisitBigBend
DumDums took a detour off the dusty desert roads and found themselves soaking it all in at Langford Hot Springs 🌵♨️
After miles of Big Bend adventures, nothing beats kicking back in warm spring water with a Rio Grande view and canyon walls all around. Even the toughest little suckers needed a moment to melt 😌 Proof that even tiny travelers can find big relaxation 💧✨
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