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Big Bend NP Travel Guide

Cradled in the warm, southwestern elbow of Texas, the 801,163 acres of Big Bend National Park hang suspended above the deserts of northern Mexico. From the craggy, bald Chisos Mountains rising up to 8,000 feet to the flat and stark plains of the Chihuahua Desert, Big Bend is one of the nation's most geographically diverse parks, with the kind of territory that inspired Hollywood's first Western sets. Visitors can ride the rapids of the Rio Grande, trek through the classic, Old West landscape, and marvel at the moonscape that skirts Boquillas, Mexico.

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