January 12, 2018 | By Chet Garner
It’s a near-mythical destination where distances stretch and time slows down, a place that can be as dry as a scorching desert or as wet as a raging river. Those who seek great adventures need look no farther than Big Bend National Park.
January 6, 2015 | By
The Chisos Basin is home to a lodge, the park’s only restaurant, a visitor center, convenience store, and a trailhead for several mountain trails.
February 1, 2014 | By
The main entrance roads to Big Bend National Park offer about 50 meandering miles of glorious scenery.
February 1, 2014 | By
In the Davis Mountains of West Texas lies a small town that evokes equal parts frontier days and space age.
February 1, 2014 | By
Don’t let the still, ancient expanses of the Chihuahuan Desert fool you—there’s a lot happening out here, from cultured art festivals to white-knuckle car racing.
January 9, 2013 | By E. Dan Klepper
The summit of Mount Locke, home to McDonald Observatory, pokes into a particularly isolated patch of the rural West Texas sky, making it a very dark place to be on a moonless night.
October 15, 2012 | By Larry McGinnis
From a distance, West Texas’ Davis Mountains float above the Chihuahuan Desert like a smoky mirage.
October 1, 2009 | By Mike Cox
When cartoonist friend Roger T. Moore, a West Texan with a sense of humor as big as one of the dozens of wind turbines looking down on his ranch, told me that the largest oak forest in North America covers some 40,000 acres near Monahans, it sounded like a setup.
April 21, 2009 | By Barbara Rodriguez
After driving the many miles required to reach Alpine from just about anywhere, a lot of folks see this town as if it’s the last stop on the roaring open road to Big Bend National Park.
Published 10 times per year by the Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages travel to and within the Lone Star State and tells the Texas story to readers around the world.
