People are drawn to Big Bend to paddle the Rio Grande between sheer canyon walls, hike mountain trails thousands of feet above the surrounding desert, look for the park’s 450-plus bird species ...

Home to 59 reptilian species—including sun-loving desert tortoises, harmless whiptail lizards, and Texas horned lizards — Big Bend NP leads among national parks for reptile spotting.

There are so many amazing things to do in Big Bend National Park! Explore hikes, ranger program, crossing the border and more ...

Big Bend National Park in Texas could soon expand by thousands of acres. Three lawmakers — U.S. Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Ben Ray Luján D-New Mexico, and U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San ...

The U.S. military is deploying troops and armored vehicles to West Texas, including inside Big Bend National Park, as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The U.S. military is deploying troops and armored vehicles to West Texas, including inside Big Bend National Park, as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

Although Big Bend, at about 1,200 square miles, is bigger than Rhode Island, it’s only the fifteenth largest of the national parks—yet, as chief of interpretation and visitor services Tom ...

"In March 2024, a volunteer with the Big Bend National Park botany program and a supervisory interpretive park ranger first noticed some very tiny plants sprinkled among the desert rocks in a ...

Big Bend National Park The wooly devil is what botanists refer to as a “belly plant,” or a tiny, low-growing plant that can be best seen while lying prone on the ground.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service confirmed Monday.

Researchers with the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of sunflower endemic to the dry, rugged terrain found at Big Bend National Park. The wooly devil, which was first ...