Chihuahuan Desert Nature Trail, Big Bend National Park
Distance: 0.5-mile loop
Location: Big Bend National Park, Texas
Date: October 23, 2013
The Chihuahuan Desert Nature Trail is a short half mile long trail on the eastern side of Big Bend National Park. The trail goes around one of the park's former ranch sites called the Dugout Ranch, so called because the buildings were dug out of the ground to provide better insulation from the desert heat.
No structures remain in the area, although you can see a depression where a building once was located. A grove of cottonwood and other trees (including a non-native fig palm) grow where the groundwater coming from the Chisos Mountains approaches the ground's surface and is pumped by a windmill. The trail has a number of small interpretive signs about the desert and life in it as well as views of the Chisos Mountains.
© Copyright 2017 Matthew Pintar. All rights reserved.
Location: Big Bend National Park, Texas
Date: October 23, 2013
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| Chisos Mountains from the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Trail |
The Chihuahuan Desert Nature Trail is a short half mile long trail on the eastern side of Big Bend National Park. The trail goes around one of the park's former ranch sites called the Dugout Ranch, so called because the buildings were dug out of the ground to provide better insulation from the desert heat.
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| Windmill that still pumps water |
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| Trees growing around the water source |
No structures remain in the area, although you can see a depression where a building once was located. A grove of cottonwood and other trees (including a non-native fig palm) grow where the groundwater coming from the Chisos Mountains approaches the ground's surface and is pumped by a windmill. The trail has a number of small interpretive signs about the desert and life in it as well as views of the Chisos Mountains.
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| Fig palm |
© Copyright 2017 Matthew Pintar. All rights reserved.
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