Big Bend National Park

Recorded June 9, 2004. The video begins north of the park as I drive south from Alpine through beautiful West Texas to the park. Big Bend National Park is located in Southwest Texas on international boundary with Mexico. Big Bend National Park administers approximately 244 miles along that boundary. Big Bend is one of the largest, most remote, and least-visited national parks in the lower 48 United States. A good portion of the video is of my journey down the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive to Santa Elena Canyon. I also look across the Rio Grande River into Mexico at a couple of locations in the park.

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• big
• bend
• national
• park
• Sotol
• Vista
• santa
• elena
• canyon
• ross
• maxwell
• scenic
• drive
• texas
• mexio
• rio
• grande
• river

[flutingaround]

Thank you for posting this video. My Dad and I are visiting for our 40 and 60th birthday.

[RoadCaptainEntertain]

Very cool along the river at sunrise.

[zebraman777333]

I love that park, I love camping for $2 a day on the rio grand, but I have to tell you this bro, you missed some of the best parts of that park LOL, next time call me LOL I will show you alot more LOL, I think you seen abour 1/10th of the park, REALLY. you missed two of the best things in that park, 1 the plateau, 2 the cavern springs

[labonita1977]

A life time supply for of SOTOL. Check out  DON CUCO SOTOL on youtube. GREAT VIDEO

[JazzMinors]

I'm not suprised nobody is around. Obviously the most people that we saw was at the visitors center and the Chisos Basin area. But when you get in your car and drive to different places to hike trails etc, you don't run across very many people.  Big Bend NP is one of the least visited national parks mainly because it is situated in such a remote area of Texas. It's a shame because it is an absolutely gorgeous park. I mean you generally are not going to arrive there by accident. It is worth it!

[jmoody166]

I've hiked and backpacked almost 3,000 miles of Texas Trans-Pecos desert mountains and still keep going back. It's my favorite place in the world. This video just barely scratches the surface of this desert wonderland. It's awesome from the roads (paved and otherwise), but to me it's the backcountry that will just take your breath away in so many places. I'm there at least twice a year leading Sierra Club service projects or backpacking trips.

[BigMattFromTexas]

that was nowhere near most of Big Bend National Park, the best place there is Cattail Falls

[gyruuryg]

I tried to move the slider to 9:26 where it actually takes place and it just won't let me do it. I think it is an upload error you're seeing.. here are some times

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[losfreddy]

i have captured them on camera before with my Sony HD in infrared. I have deleted most of my videos, but i think im gonna upload my two best in a sec. I was watching this video cause i was looking for places to travel to and noticed the rod. Its really hard to say. I'm not sure what they are, but they are definitely not bugs.. Someone tried telling me the UFO i filmed was a wasp and is totally not the case. check my channel for some raw rod videos i recorded. Also, others filmed in infrared

[JugglingTed]

Thank you losfreddy. I watched the Big Bend vido for a flying rod and saw it too! What do you know about them?

Ted