Big Bend bluebonnets nodded in the breeze ... the guide who was helping me navigate a two-day paddle down Mariscal Canyon. Simply getting to the river had been a challenge: we’d met early ...

Then we entered Mariscal Canyon, one of the most interesting ... the longest and deepest canyon in Big Bend National Park. This canyon had a highly varied terrain with numerous side canyons.

After Big Bend became a national park in ... daytime and overnight canoe trips in Santa Elena Canyon, as well as multiday trips through Mariscal, Boquillas and the Lower canyons.

Low water levels to the point of disconnected flow have happened at Big Bend in the past, but it has been a number of years since the river stopped in places like the Mariscal Canyon, according to ...

It’s astonishing. It’s sad. It’s not a river.” In mid-April, Skiles traveled to Mariscal Canyon, at Big Bend’s southern tip. The photos he captured there — of a bone-dry riverbed ...

a panorama of the entire Big Bend where the eye can easily follow the Rio Grande emerging from Santa Elena Canyon, going through Mariscal Canyon, and on to Boquillas Canyon, where it disappears.

After Big Bend became a national park in ... daytime and overnight canoe trips in Santa Elena Canyon, as well as multiday trips through Mariscal, Boquillas and the Lower canyons.