Far down on the Mexican border, the Rio Grande makes a great U-turn. Inside this mighty curve lies a national park and the special and spectacular section of southwest Texas known as the "Big Bend Country".

More than a century ago a Mexican cowboy described the Big Bend as "Where the rainbows wait for rain, and the big river is kept in a stone box, and water runs uphill and mountains float in the air, except at night when they go away to play with other mountains….."

This land is so vast and so wild that you can feel your human smallness and frailty.
- excerpt from the Big Bend; Official National Park Handbook