Big Bend National Park Entrance

by Linda Cox

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Big Bend National Park Entrance

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Linda Cox

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Digital Art - Digital Photography

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This is an original photograph which has been gently, digitally altered to give you a lovelly work of art to grace the walls of your home or office. The Fine Art America watermark will not be visible on purchased artwork.
After miles and miles and hours and hours driving through scenery which can probably be labeled as uninspiring, suddenly you happen upon the entrance to Big Bend National Park. That's when the scenery changes from uninspiring to Wow! This photograph of the entrance to Big Bend just gives you a taste of what you will find once you pass through the opening.

Big Bend is a part of the Chichuhuan Desert and the Rio Grande River runs through it.The Rio Grande River is a large, and probably the most famous river in Texas. It forms an international border. Inside the Big Bend National Park you will find sheer, towering walls that rise above the river separating the two countries of the United States and Mexico. Absolutely spectacular. It is in this area that the Rio Grande River makes a dramatic detour and creates it's deep, big bend along the Texas-Mexico border. This is an area basically unchanged for centuries, except for a few campgrounds and one hotel in the Chisos Mountains. What you see, hear and feel when you are in the Big Bend area is what the Apache and Comanche Indians, invading Spaniards, settlers, miners and smugglers saw, heard and felt hundreds of years ago. It is a place that you don't just decide to visit in an afternoon because it is miles and miles and miles from anywhere except the little ghost town of Terlingua. You should definitely visit this beautiful place, but plan to spend a day or two or more just getting there, and then a day or two or more just seeing the place. Big Bend National Park sprawls over an area larger than Rhode Island, covering more than 800,000 acres. Well worth the time and effort.

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October 14th, 2018

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