At first glance, the hardscrabble terrain of Big Bend National Park, which hugs a bend in the Rio Grande between Texas and Mexico, looks like a moonscape: desolate and slightly threatening.

Big Bend National Park includes the entire Chisos Mountain Range and a large swath of the Chihuahuan Desert. The national park sprawls over 801,100 acres in West Texas near Alpine.

A recent study named Big Bend National Park one of the most dangerous national parks in the nation. Big Bend National Park was the only site from Texas listed in the study from personal injury ...

“This means the Big Bend National Park reports nearly six deaths for every one million visits.” The most dangerous national park in the country, according to the study, is Organ Pipe Cactus ...

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