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Canyons & deserts

Big Bend National Park

Terlingua, TX · Chihuahuan Desert, West Texas$

Big Bend covers 801,163 acres of Chihuahuan Desert on the Rio Grande in Texas, and the Park Service calls it one of North America's best places for dark skies. In the middle…

Mountains

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

Salt Flat, TX · West Texas / Chihuahuan Desert$

The Guadalupe Mountains of far West Texas began as a reef about 265 million years ago, built by sponges and algae along 400 miles of shoreline in a tropical sea. There's no…

Beaches

Padre Island National Seashore

Corpus Christi, TX · Texas Gulf Coast$

Padre Island National Seashore covers 66 miles of Gulf beach at the end of Park Road 22 on North Padre Island, Texas. You can drive and camp right on the sand. Two-wheel drive is…

Caves

Natural Bridge Caverns

San Antonio, TX · Texas Hill Country$$

Four college students went looking for passages off a sinkhole in 1960 and broke through into the largest commercial cavern in Texas, named for the 60-foot limestone bridge…

Caves

Caverns of Sonora

Sonora, TX · Texas Hill Country

Out on the dry ranchland west of Sonora, a staircase drops 155 feet into a cave that mineralogists rank among the most beautiful on the planet, and the reason is the helictites…