Big Bend National Park is one of the more remote parks in the continental United States, but with some effort – we arrived!
The early morning drive down from Marathon provided an excellent sunrise, giving the mountains great coloring.
Eventually we made our way back down to the Rio Grande River Valley.
Our west Texas days constantly provided interesting cacti views.
The Rio Grande in this area is really just a decent size creek, but the kayaks were setting out for the day.
Our first choice for hiking along the river, the Santa Elena Canyon Trail, was closed due to wildfires, so we headed instead for the Boquillas Canyon Trail.
As we made our way along the river an elderly man on the Mexico side serenaded us with songs in an effort to get us to come down to the river bank so he could sell his wares.
The canyon walls continually closed in until we couldn’t go any further unless we went in the river.
We returned to cross the border into Mexico (detailed on the next post) passing more colorful mountains along the way.
With wildfires closing a number of the more popular spots in the park, we chose to go up into the basin and check out the Window View Trail. Again we were treated to interesting vegetation.
Being in the basin we were surrounded on all sides by the mountains.
This view is ‘The Window’.
While it was disappointing that the wildfires impacted the park, there was plenty to see and do for the day.
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