Big Bend National Park is shutting down trails and campsites this fall-not for construction, but to clear the skies for ...

Aoudad sheep are invasive in the West Texas region and affect the native desert bighorn sheep and the park's ecology ...

Discover with us the major animal species you might spot on your next visit to Big Bend National Park, a diverse Texas ...

NPCA will not stand by and watch history repeat itself... We know what happened last time park staff were forced to leave ...

The largest national park in Texas may soon get even bigger. Big Bend National Park could soon expand after the bipartisan Big Bend National Park Boundary Adjustment Act passed the Senate unanimously ...

If you spend a long enough time in a city — any city, even the magical ones I’m lucky enough to visit regularly — then it won’t be long until you start feeling Mother Nature calling out to your spirit ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas – A new plant species has been discovered at Big Bend National Park, the park announced in a news release Monday. In March 2024, two staff members found tiny plants ...

Big Bend officials added that the roads and campsites will open by Monday, September 5, if conditions improve. The park added to exercise extreme caution when choosing your hike this weekend as the ...

A popular national park in Texas recently received high praise in a study that listed the best parks in the country. Travel Lemming, a travel guide website, named Big Bend National Park in its Top 10 ...

WASHINGTON U.S. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) March 25 introduced the Big Bend National Park Boundary Adjustment Act, which would authorize ...

As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Last year, Big Bend National Park volunteer Debra Manley and park interpretive operations supervisor Cathy Hoyt were on a hike in a northern area of ...

Researchers say odd-looking plants discovered by a volunteer and supervisory interpretive park ranger at a U.S. National Park are a new species.The unique plant was found growing on desert rocks in a ...