OK, I am overwhelmed with trying to do this on a single page. A massive park with four distinct parts and much more to see and do. It borders the Rio Grande river on the south for 118 miles and extends across more than 800,000 acres. We did not see it all in four days. Our sample included a bit of each zone but missed a lot of things in all of them. On the east we did three short trails and some of the history of the area, in the west we hiked the Santa Elena Canyon, it was spectacular and we did two old ranch hikes, an amazing overlook and some of the history of the area. In the central high mountains the scenery changed from desert to pine, oak and maple forested areas. Here we did lunch at the nice lodge, a 2 mile hike and some shorter trails. We also did Balanced Rock - see earlier post, and lots more. I found it an amazing place. More photos when I get the time at home to more carefully edit them

Big Bend National Park, Texas