TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Big Bend National Park is often referred to as “Texas’ Gift to the Nation.” There’s no person who knows this vast and rich ecological landscape quite like the man who heads the ...

Big Bend National Park is one of the most popular vacation spots in all of Texas, welcoming more than 500,000 visitors from around the world each year. Often referred to as Texas' Gift to the Nation, ...

Big Bend National Park in Texas has been on my bucket list ever since I first saw a picture of the Rio Grande River winding through spectacular mountainous desert cliffs. The name “Big Bend” even ...

I have hiked up and down this and other countries over the last 20 years. But the Lost Mine Trail at Big Bend National Park is the one and only time I've ever encountered a black bear on foot. It ...

Established in 1944, Big Bend National Park encompasses 324,153 hectares along the international border with Mexico. As the largest protected portion of the Chihuahuan Desert in the United States, the ...

A new plant species called the Wooly Devil has been discovered at Big Bend National Park in Texas, the National Park Service announced Monday. The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata, was first spotted ...

The unnamed woman was hiking the Hot Springs Canyon Trail when she "collapsed and was unresponsive," park authorities said Tuesday. Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital ...

Two people died Friday after hiking in extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, the National Park Service said in a news release. A stepfather and his two stepsons from Florida were ...

MARFA, Texas (CBS NEWS) - A Florida man and his teenage stepson died after hiking in extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in Texas, officials said Saturday. With temperatures at 119 degrees ...