Today we said goodbye to Amistad National Recreation Area. It’s been a great week, but it’s time to go:
We drove west to Big Bend National Park:
The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their badges:
At the visitor center, we filled out the permit necessary to do dispersed camping in the park, an oddity for an NPS site, as they usually don’t allow dispersed camping. The permit allows use of a specific dispersed camping location for up to 14 days.
The visitor center lies in the shadow of the Chisos Mountains, the only mountain range in the US to be entirely contained within a single National Park:
On our way to our dispersed camping location, we passed a family of three Javalinas:
We settled into our dispersed camping location:
Not a bad view:
Happy second night of Chanukah!
See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.
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You’ve really made tracks SW! Karen & I have enjoyed several visits to Big Bend, riding the entire river trail & taking advantage of many dispersed sites. Hike Emory!
Emory looked like too much of a hike for the kids, but we did do a number of shorter hikes. We were really surprised by all Big Bend has to offer!