Big Bend National Park Features

Big Bend National Park Features

• Top Reasons to Go to Big Bend National Park
  

  Varied terrain: Visit gilded desert, a fabled river, bird-filled woods, and mountain spirals all in the same day.... read more

• Bluebonnets: the Pride of Texas
  

  Ever since men first explored the prairies of Texas, the bluebonnet has been revered. American Indians wove folktales around this bright bluish-violet... read more

• Flora and Fauna
  

  Because Big Bend contains habitats as diverse as spent volcanoes, slick-sided canyons, and the Rio Grande, it follows that species here are extremely... read more

• Big Bend's Buffalo Soldiers
  

  During the Indian Wars of 1866 through 1892, the U.S. government enlisted vast numbers of black soldiers to serve in its cavalry. Those that... read more

• Good Reads
  

  Naturalist's Big Bend, by Roland H. Wauer and Carl M. Fleming, paints a picture of the park's diverse plants and animals.... read more