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Big Bend National Park, Tex.: How to get there, where to stay, what to do

Washington Post - Jan 20, 2012
Big Bend National Park is about 245 miles away. Where to stay Lajitas Golf and Spa Resort 877-LAJITAS (5254-827) www.lajitasgolfresort.com Rustic-elegant resort with restaurant, bar, movie house, shops and more. Near park entrance.

Big Bend National Park, Texas

Canada Free Press

Canada Free Press - Dec 28, 2011
Cradled against a grand turn of the Rio Grande River, and sharing 118 desolate miles with Old Mexico crawling with dope smugglers and human coyotes, and wacko nut-jobs on both sides of the border laying low or on the lam, Big Bend National Park and the ...

We tamed the Big Bend Ultra trail race!

Austin 360 (blog) - Jan 17, 2012
Really, what could be better than running through the flat lands of Big Bend National Park? The race, a fund-raiser for The Friends of Big Bend National Park, took place Sunday. The course followed Glenn Springs Road through the southeastern portion of ...

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Big Bend National Park, TX - Trails Illustrated Map #225

by: National Geographic Maps
The map includes Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Black Gap Wildlife Management ARea, the Chisos Mountains, Sierra del Carmen, Sierra del Caballo Muerto, designated backcountry camping sites, park information, and more. Includes UTM tick marks for use with your GPS unit.

Scale = 1:133,333 & 1:27,500 Size: 26'' x 38''
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Hiking Big Bend National Park, 2nd

by: Laurence Parent
Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive guide features forty-seven trails in Big Bend National Park.

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Traveling Music: Playing Back the Soundtrack to My Life and Times

by: Neil Peart
The music of Frank Sinatra, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and many other artists provides the score to the reflections of a musician on the road in this memoir of Neil Peart's travels from Los Angeles to Big Bend National Park. The emotional associations and stories behind each album Peart plays guide his recollections of his childhood on Lake Ontario, the first bands that he performed with, and his travels with the band Rush. The evocative and resonant writing vividly captures the meanderings of a musical mind, leading rock enthusiasts to discover inside information about Rush and the musical inspirations of a rock legend.
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Take Me to the River

by: Will Hobbs

Deep in trouble,
Deep in the canyons

Fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands has come all the way from North Carolina to Big Bend National Park, on the Texas/Mexico border, to paddle the fabled Rio Grande. His partner in adventure is a local river rat, his cousin Rio. As the two are packing their boats for ten days in the canyons, six Black Hawk helicopters appear overhead and race across the river into Mexico.

The army won't tell the boys what's happening, but they are given a weather advisory: A hurricane is approaching the Gulf of Mexico.
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Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park is a national park located in the US state of Texas. For more than 1000 miles (1600 km), the Rio Grande / Río Bravo forms the international boundary between Mexico and the United States, and Big Bend National Park administers approximately 244 miles (393 km) along that boundary. Big Bend National Park has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, which includes more than 1200 species of plants, more than 450 species of birds, 56 species of reptiles, and 75 species of mammals. The park covers 801163 acres (3242 km2). Few areas exceed the park's value for the protection and study of geologic and paleontologic resources. Cretaceous and Tertiary fossil organisms exist in variety and abundance. Archeologists have discovered artifacts estimated to be 9000 years old, and historic buildings and landscapes offer graphic illustration of life along the international border in the 1800s. Because the Rio Grande serves as an international boundary, the park faces unusual constraints when administering and enforcing park rules, regulations, and policies. In accordance with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the park has jurisdiction only to the center of the deepest river channel as the river flowed in 1848. The rest of the land south of that channel, and the river, lies within Mexican territory.

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