Bury my heart at Cottonwood Campground in Big Bend National Park, where riverside breezes and morning birdsong waft through trees. From spring through autumn, at least 20 species of birds call the ...

A campground at Big Bend National Park is closed to the public due to increased bear activity. This comes just a few weeks after the park also closed Window Trail in the Chisos Basin for the same ...

Big Bend National Park is one of the most popular vacation spots in all of Texas, welcoming more than 500,000 visitors from around the world each year. Often referred to as Texas' Gift to the Nation, ...

Big Bend National Park is located in the massive Chihuahuan Desert and is a place where campers can enjoy everything from backpacking to hiking and picnicking to animal watching. This is a national ...

One of the crown jewels of Texas camping reopens Tuesday. Big Bend National Park's Chisos Basin Campground will welcome campers for the first time since July. "Perched atop an uncharacteristically ...

Awake long before sunrise for other purposes, I decided it was a good opportunity to check on Capella and the kids. I was camped with friends in a West Texas arroyo on a gravel bed just wide enough ...

A record 581,000 travelers visited Big Bend National Park last year. Tourists are drawn to this prickly desert paradise in far West Texas for its majestic sunsets, spectacular hiking and camping, and ...

A fire at Big Bend National Park that has burned for nearly a week has grown to at least 863 acres. The National Park Service, which oversees the park in Far West Texas, said Monday that much of the ...