{"id":8419,"date":"2013-11-26T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsdavedoing.com\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2013-11-26T18:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:31:56","slug":"muddy-adventure-big-bend-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsdavedoing.com\/muddy-adventure-big-bend-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"A Muddy Adventure in Big Bend National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Big Bend National Park<\/a> is an anomaly really. Buried in remote southwest Texas and forming the border with Mexico for nearly 250 miles, it’s simultaneously one of the largest and least-visited national parks in the United States. While somewhere like Yellowstone<\/a> sees three million people per year through its gates, Big Bend is nine times the size yet gets less than ten percent of the visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The reason, I guess, is that it just isn’t really on the way to anywhere. We were staying in Alpine, the only town of any size in the vicinity… and even that only had 6000 residents and was around a hundred miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Populated this part of the country is not… and that, of course, is exactly why we went there. With only a single day in such a huge park and a two hour drive each way, we knew that we were going to be rushed. Knowing that, I probably should have paid a little more attention to the map before setting out – and promptly driving in the wrong direction for half an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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