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One of the most dramatic images shows the entire Manhattan skyline, a dense slab of glass and steel, laid across the high ...

Black clouds loomed to the east, but I kept my eyes on the trail, surprised to see Cretaceous snail and clam fossils similar to those at the mouth of Santa Elena Canyon. Rising above the tree line ...

It’s late afternoon in Santa Elena Canyon – a 19-mile gorge that separates Big Bend National Park in West Texas and three national parks in Mexico – and we’re setting up camp along a ...

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a new Priority Mail stamp depicting a scene familiar to many Texans—the Rio Grande disappearing between the sheer cliff walls of Santa Elena Canyon.

Santa Elena Canyon, arguably the most spectacular natural feature in a Big Bend National Park full of wonders, owes its existence to a river that for eons has been carving a path through sheer ...

Big Bend has beautiful Santa Elena Canyon and the stunning Window and South Rim trails. Yet Guadalupe Mountains has McKittrick Canyon and El Capitan, a stunning 1,000-foot limestone cliff.

A family of four, another hiker and a park ranger carried Snider out of Santa Elena Canyon to safety. “It turned out to be one of the most beautiful moments ever,” Snider said. “It was great ...

The Rio Grande trickling through the Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park in March.Credit...Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times Supported by By Daniel Modlin Daniel Modlin is a ...

Near Santa Elena Canyon, a river gage measured 0 cubic feet per second for the first time on record on April 28, and it stayed that way for most of the next month. What’s missing from this picture?