Ep. 119: Big Bend National Park | Texas RV travel camping
In this episode of Grand Adventure we're deep in the Chihuahuan Desert, the second largest desert in North America. We're right on the Mexican border, on the banks of the Rio Grande River in the Big Bend area of beautiful West Texas. This is part 1 of our two-part series from the Big Bend.
We're visiting Big Bend National Park. This National Park is massive, encompassing 801,000 acres, the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States. It includes approximately 118 miles of America's national boundary with Mexico along the Rio Grande, designated a wild and scenic river. We'll see Boquillas Canyon, the Boquillas Port of Entry river crossing to Mexico, the Hot Springs Historic Area, Panther Junction, the Chisos Mountains and Chisos Basin, and the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive. We'll show you the National Park's Rio Grande Village Campground, Chisos Basin Campground and Cottonwood Campground, as well as Maverick Ranch RV Park at Lajitas Golf Resort in the tiny riverside hamlet of Lajitas, where we're staying ourselves.
Filmed: September 21-25, 2019
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Big Bend State Park Texas
Video from our camping trip in the Chihuahua desert at Big Bend Ranch State Park. The video is taken from our campsite at the Madera Canyon upper loop near the Barton Warnock Visitor Center.
There are also plenty of other outdoor activities to do in this part of Texas including hiking, mountain biking, fishing in the Rio Grande, and horseback riding.
5 Cool Things to See in Big Bend National Park, Texas | US Travel Guide
5 Cool Things to See in Big Bend National Park, US States
Big Bend National Park in West Texas’s Chihuahuan Desert exceeds 800,000 acres. To put that into perspective, the park is bigger than Rhode Island. Big Bend boasts breathtaking desert landscapes, hundreds of bird species, dozens of reptile species, buildings dating back to the 1800s, artifacts dating back 9,000 years, and animal fossils dating back to the Cretaceous Period. The park also includes these ten exciting features. Here things to see in Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA.
1. The Window Trail
2. Boquillas Canyon Rapids
3. Langford Hot Springs
4. Emory Peak
5. Castolon Historic District
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Chihuahuan Desert Bike Fest - Texas Parks and Wildlife [Official]
Chihuahuan Desert Bike Fest
This West Texas mountain bike festival draws folks from around the world to the trails around Lajitas and Big Bend Ranch State Park. Held every year on President's Day weekend, this event is a great time for anyone who would like to go fixin’ or freewheelin’ around the old frontier.
Chisos Mountains - Big Bend National Park, Texas, United States
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A great spot for the outdoors-lover in Big Bend National Park.
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- Chisos Mountains, with the sky clearing by Rachandstu from a blog titled Miles and Miles of Texas!
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- Chisos Mountains by Kellyjohn from a blog titled Big Bend N.P.
Big Bend State Park Texas timelapse
This is a 30 second time-lapsed sunset video from our camping trip in the Chihuahua desert at Big Bend Ranch State Park, the video is taken from our campsite at the Madera Canyon upper loop near the Barton Warnock Visitor Center.
The state park is part of the wild west with rugged remote landscape including two mountain ranges, ancient extinct volcanoes, and canyons!
You can get a permit for back country camping! There are also plenty of other outdoor activities to do in this part of Texas including camping, mountain biking, fishing in the Rio Grande, and horseback riding.
There is also a semi-annual long horn cattle roundup here at the largest State Park in Texas!
Flash Flood - Big Bend National Park, Texas
Joe Sirotnak, Transboundary Conservation in the Big Bend Region of the Chihuahuan Desert
The Big Bend-Río Bravo (a.k.a., Big Bend of the Rio Grande) region of the northern Chihuahuan Desert has been a focus for transboundary biodiversity and landscape conservation for many decades. Currently, federal, state, private, non-profit, and academic conservation partners from the U.S. and Mexico are working together to increase the health and resilience of ecosystems at risk and implement conservation from a landscape perspective. To further conservation on protected lands approaching three million acres on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, including the Rio Grande/Río Bravo, the Department of Interior (DOI) and the Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT) are leading the Big Bend-Río Bravo Initiative, which seeks to increase capacity for bilateral conservation. Additionally, the National Park Service (NPS), the Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) are providing leadership to the Big Bend Conservation Cooperative (BBCC), a forum for working with a large group of conservation partners to build on successful projects in the region, including river and riparian science and monitoring, control of tamarisk and other exotic and invasive species, and recovery of the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow.
To advance the cooperative conservation efforts in the Big Bend-Río Bravo region, the trilateral Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is funding a proposal submitted by the NPS, USFWS, and the Comision Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP) to foster the growth and development of binational partnerships through facilitated and translated binational meetings, to identify shared resource values and priorities, implement public outreach and engage a wider array of stakeholders, and implement activities contributing to rehabilitation of the Big Bend-Río Bravo. Objectives of the project include: (1) planning and implementing adaptive management of riparian, aquatic, and grassland ecosystems of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo basin in the Big Bend-Rio Bravo region, including control of exotic and invasive vegetation; (2) creating strong linkages between science and monitoring and management decisions and activities, including facilitating the exchange of scientific data amongst conservation partners; (3) supporting the recovery of the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow and conservation of native species; and (4) coordinating efforts to mitigate and/or adapt to the effects of climate change.
Texas Mountain Trail - Terlingua to Lajitas
Great Ride form Junction FM118/RR170 (Terlingua) to Lajitas on my 1994 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Nostalgia. Road is part of the Texas Mountain Trail and continuous thru Big Bend Ranch State Park in the Chihuahuan Desert. Filming was on a GoPro Hero 3 Black.
Big Bend National Park; HD Videos, Photos and Time-lapses of Big Bend National Park in Texas
Big Bend National Park; HD Videos, Photos and Time-lapses of Big Bend National Park in Texas
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Big Bend National Park in the U.S. state of Texas has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States. It contains more than 1,200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56 species of reptiles, and 75 species of mammals. The national park covers 801,163 acres.
Big Bend is one of the largest, most remote, and least-visited national parks in the lower 48 United States. In recent years, only 300,000–350,000 visitors have entered the park annually.
Big Bend's primary attraction is its hiking and backpacking trails. Particularly notable among these are the Chimneys Trail, which visits a rock formation in the desert; the Marufo Vega trail, a loop trail that passes through scenic canyons on the way to and from the Rio Grande; the South Rim trail which circles the high mountains of the Chisos; and the Outer Mountain Loop trail in the Chisos, which incorporates parts of the South Rim loop, descends into the desert along the Dodson Trail, and then returns to the Chisos Basin, completing a 30-mile loop. Other notable locations include Santa Elena Canyon, Grapevine Hills, and the Mule Ears, two imposing rock towers in the middle of the desert. Professional backpacking guide services provide trips in the park.
The park administers 118 miles (190 km) of the Rio Grande for recreational use. Professional river outfitters provide tours of the river. Use of a personal boat is permitted, but a free river float permit is required. In June 2009, the Department of Homeland Security began treating all float trips as trips that had left the country and required participants to have an acceptable form of identification such as a passport to re-enter the country.
Five paved roads are in Big Bend. Persimmon Gap to Panther Junction is a 28-mile (45 km) road from the north entrance of the park to park headquarters at Panther Junction. Panther Junction to Rio Grande Village is a 21-mile (34 km) road that descends 2,000 feet (610 m) from the park headquarters to the Rio Grande. Maverick Entrance Station to Panther Junction is a 23-mile (37 km) route from the western entrance of the park to the park headquarters. Chisos Basin Road is 6 miles (10 km) long and climbs to 5,679 feet (1,731 m) above sea level at Panther Pass before descending into the Chisos Basin. The 30-mile (48 km) Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive leads to the Castolon Historic District and Santa Elena Canyon.
The park was named after the area, which is bounded by a large bend in the river and Texas-Mexico border.
Despite its harsh desert environment, Big Bend has more than 1200 species of plants (including 60 cactus species), over 600 species of vertebrates, and about 3600 insect species. The variety of life is largely due to the diverse ecology and changes in elevation between the dry, hot desert, the cool mountains, and the fertile river valley.
???? Best National Park?!?
Big Bend should be up here with Yellow Stone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion...
It's remoteness is its beauty. We'll show you how to pack Big Bend into one weekend. We'll hit the most popular sites around the entire park, including Chisos Basin, Santa Elena, Basin Loop, Window Trail, Boquillas Canyon, and Balanced Rock (a.k.a. Grapevine Hills Trail).
Come join us on our adventure!
Travel to United States: Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA
Big Bend National Park is a U.S. national park located in Western Texas, bordering Mexico. It has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States. It contains more than 1,200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56 species of reptiles, and 75 species of mammals.
The national park covers 801,163 acres (324,219 ha)I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (
Where Rainbows Wait for Rain
The Chihuahuan Desert Trilogy: Part 2
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An Award Winning Film from the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute
Where Rainbows Wait for Rain is the second documentary on the Chihuahuan Desert produced by Harry L Gordon for the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute and filmed largely in Big Bend National Park, Texas and at Cuatrociénegas in the northern state of Coahuila, Mexico. Cuatrociénegas (which means four marshes) is located a valley floor studded with white gypsum sand dunes and ringed by mountains, hundreds of springs emerge from the ground filling blue-green pools, streams and rivers. Communities of microbes build rocky freshwater reefs in the warm, mineral rich water. Fish, turtles, shrimp, clams, snails, lizards and snakes found nowhere else in the desert, or the world for that matter, thrive here. With over 70 such endemic species, it is often compared to the Galapagos Islands. The World Wildlife Fund ranks it as one of the three most biologically outstanding desert freshwater ecoregions in the world.
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The Desert Blooms: A Chihuahuan Spring in Sanderson Texas
Perfect timing led to an amazing botanical experience in the Chihuahuan Desert.
Channel Update from Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA
I've ben tagged by Brad Alan ( to provide a channel update. Check out Brad's channel if you have a chancel. This video was filmed at Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. It's an awesome location for camping and hiking. Enjoy the autumn scenery.
Videography by Ken Kramm, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA; October, 2013; Canon Vixia HF G10, Final Cut Pro X. Robo-Western Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Direct Link: Pennsylvania Rose Kevin MacLeod (incompetch.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Direct Link:
Big Bend National Park - Message From Rick LoBello
Action Alert – sign the petition supporting the creation of Big Bend International Park at
The Greater Big Bend Coalition is a conservation organization protecting the desert lands, rivers, mountains and wildlife of the Greater Big Bend Ecosystem of Texas and northern Mexico. The region stretches across the US/Mexico Rio Grande border and includes nearly 8000 square miles of protected lands in US National Parks, Texas State Parks and Protected Areas in Mexico.
One of the top priorities of the Greater Big Bend Coalition is to gain public support to establish the now 80 year old proposal to establish a Big Bend International Park. Other priorities and issues include protecting parks and other natural areas from new roads and oil and gas development, political and non-political threats faced internally and externally, and making sure that the parks are not only protected, but also restored to natural conditions as close as possible to the pre-european settlement of North America.
Big Bend '16 - Chihuahuan Desert Bike Fest...then some
53 miles of biking, a hike to The Window, and just having a blast in the desert with my parents!
Big Bend Nationalpark, Texas
Der Big Bend Nationalpark ist einer der abgelegensten und vielfältigsten Parks der USA. Er umfasst die gesamte Südwestspitze von Texas entlang des vom Rio Grande gebildeten Bogens und liegt zu 97% in der Chihuahua Wüste. 188 Kilometer fließt der Strom durch den Park. Das zum Teil wüstenhafte Gebiet umfasst viele Canyons und raues Gebirge.
Chihuahuan Desert Bike Fest '12
This is the tale of our mountain bike adventure along the Epic Trail at Big Bend Ranch State Park. The trail goes from the Warnock Center, at the park entrance, to the Sauceda Headquarters, in the interior of the park. Our ride was part of the Chihuahuan Desert Dirt Fest 2012.
Cloudscapes in Big Bend National Park, Texas
Time lapse footage from the foothills and basin areas of the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park, Texas. This video was assembled for the Scapes Art Show in Terlingua, Texas on April 4, 2009.
Vapocrunch is a video jockey residing in West Texas and has been filming the Big Bend National Park region and beyond for about 7 years.