Park Finder

Big Bend offers plenty of activities for visitors of all ages. The park boasts 150 miles of hiking trails through mountainous desert terrain and along rivers.

Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park is often described as the Birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution.

Chamizal National Memorial provides visitors with ample opportunity to better understand not only other cultures, but their own cultural roots as well.

Fort Davis, of the best examples of an Indian Wars frontier military post in the Southwest, protected emigrants and transportation on the Chihuahua Trail.

Lake Meredith National Recreation Area supplies water for 11 cities, and opportunities for fishing, boating, waterskiing, sailing, scuba diving, and swimming.

Padre Island National Seashore separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Laguna Madre, and protects coastline, dunes, prairies, and wind tidal flats.

Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River is a playground of rapids and three separate canyons, and includes float trips, canyon hikes, and rare wildlife species.

Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve documents the human and natural Caribbean world from early Caribbean history to present day.