The Rio Grande winds through some 240 miles of outstanding paddling terrain with a Wild and Scenic River designation. More than 117 miles of that is within the Big Bend National Park, but the ...

Discover why West Texas' Big Bend region is an outdoor lover's dream. The Big Bend region of West Texas has no shortage of ...

Deep in the southwestern corner of Texas, the Rio Grande enters an arid, no-man’s-land of deserts and canyons that for centuries has been considered godforsaken. For rafters, however, there’s ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas - To the city of El Paso, the Rio Grande is just a mirage. But to the Rio Grande, El Paso is probably just the same. If you look deeper down the river, specifically ...

This “wild and scenic” section of the famous Rio Grande is a 196-mile stretch of the river that travels east from the Mexican border into Texas and winds through some of the more remote vistas in the ...

In May, the Rio Grande ran dry in storied Santa Elena Canyon—warning of big trouble all along Texas’ longest river. by Dylan Baddour Find the Texas Observer on Facebook ...

Days of heavy rainfall in Big Bend National Park have caused flash flooding and wet conditions along the Rio Grande and other ...

In the case of the Texas hornshell, the proposed designation covers approximately 464 miles of river, including roughly 304 miles of the Rio Grande, 86 miles of the Pecos River, 33 miles of the ...

We'd come to the Rio Grande's Lower Canyons knowing it was an international border, but after four days of desert floating without seeing a single soul, the concept of borders — much less a wall ...