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AREA
COUNTIES
Brewster County, Terrell County, Jeff Davis County, Presidio
County,
covering 14,671 sq. miles. |
| | Mariscal
Mine
"Deep
inside" Big Bend National Park on Mariscal Mountain. A National Register Historic
District.
Photos
courtesy Erik Whetstone |
Featured Articles: Ernst
Tinaja by Mike Cox
A geologic feature in Big Bend National Park called
Ernst Tinaja, a deep natural water hole dug out of the bedrock over the millenia
by erosion—a place of beauty tainted by a history of death.The
Big Bend Then by Maggie Van Ostrand
"If you know why Texas Ranger
Captain Charles L. Nevill spat his fine pipe right out of his mouth, then you
know more about Big Bend history than most Texans..." Avisadores:
Messengers of Light by Clay Coppedge
"Put me in another landscape
and I might not even notice or imagine this almost subliminal flash of light but
Big Bend is, or at least was, the land of avisadores..." Yuccaing
it Up In the Big Bend by Frances Giles
and The Ballad of Dagger Flats (a.k.a.
The Adventures of Las Dos Francescas) |
NATIONAL
PARKS
Big Ben National Park
http://www.nps.gov/bibe/index.htm
Fort
Davis National Historic Site
http://www.nps.gov/foda/index.htm |
STATE
PARKS IN THE AREA Big
Bend Ranch State Park
P O Box 2319 Presidio TX 79845
432/229-3416
Chihuahuan Desert
Along the Rio Grande from SE Presidio
almost to Lajitas
Brewster and Presidio Counties.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/bigbend/
Barton Warnock
Environmental Education Center
HC 70, Box 375 Terlingua
TX 79852
432/424-3327
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/barton/
Fort Leaton State Historic
Site
P O Box 2439 Presidio TX 79845
432/229-3613
Directions: Located 4 miles SE of Presidio on FM 170 (River Road) one of
the most scenic drive in Texas.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/fortleat/
Davis Mountain
State Park
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/davis/davis.htm |
| | A
view of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park
Photo courtesy Julie
McConnell, 2004 |
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Texas Towns |
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