Full Day Big Bend National Park Tour

This tour hits the high points and iconic landscapes of the Big Bend. During this tour, we will visit the 3 primary ecological zones contained in the Park: Low Desert, River/Riparian, and semi-Alpine mountains. We also visit a secluded archeological site that contains petroglyphs that are estimated to be as much as 3000 years old. Big Bend is a cultural crossroads, with its first inhabitants dating to more than 8, 000 years BCE. The first European traveled through in 1536 and afterward Spanish expeditions passed through and eventually Comanche and Apache were on their way to raid isolated ranches in Mexico. This land has such a panoply of interesting history and magnificent landscapes, that it has captivated me for decades. I try to bring history alive and relate it to what guests may know about larger historical themes, rather than a series of names and dates. I explain geology in terms of continental tectonic processes and show a new way to look at mountains as the result of a dynamic process.