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OldSchooling on the "Lone Star Trail"

. . . . . . . . .Pine Canyon Road & Juniper Canyon Road

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Big Bend National Park/ Pine Canyon Road & Juniper Canyon Road

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Big Bend National Park/ Pine Canyon Road & Juniper Canyon Road​
 
Big Bend National Park/ Pine Canyon Road & Juniper Canyon Road

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Big Bend National Park
Pine Canyon Road & Juniper Canyon Road​


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Disclosure:
Top & bottom photos are cropped from second photo
 
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Luna Jacal - Big Bend National Park - Maverick Road

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Luna's Jacal
Old Maverick Road

Gilberto Luna died in 1947 at the age of 108, in his aged jacal (prounounced hah-KAHL) he built himself from materials he collected near by.

Gilberto Luna raised melons and beans...and 38 children; born by six different successive wives.That's the story:dunno

Imagine, living 108 years. If he had the News channel, he would of heard of the WW 1 & 2, the Depression, and the Atomic Bomb. Gilberto was lucky, he had his "place in the Sun" and didn't have the News Channel.
 
Big Bend National Park - Maverick Road - Terlingua Abajo

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Big Bend National Park - Maverick Road - Terlingua Abajo


Above: Ruins of an old farming community (Terlingua Abajo)
Below: Interesting erosion​

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Big Bend National Park - Maverick Road

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Old Maverick Road is a well maintained gravel road that has the Rattlesnake Mountains to the west and ends at the Mouth of the Santa Elena Canyon​

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Big Bend National Park - Santa Elena Canyon

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Big Bend National Park - Santa Elena Canyon (visible as a cut in the bluff). This is in the southwest corner of Big Bend park​



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. . . . . . Big Bend National Park - Santa Elena Canyon

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Big Bend National Park - Santa Elena Canyon
This trail is one of the nicest trails you will ever take


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Excellant shots! Can't believe I was just there last week. A lot of the same places......I can still feel the heat,in fact I miss it.....:( (cold this am 18??F in Chicago)

I like the distance shots of Santa Elena Canyon.
Look very close at the center of the picture.
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And those walls had to be 50+' high...!
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I was warned about wading in the Rio Grande water. Too much upstream pollution.:hungover

If I stayed a week longer, or you came a week earlier,we could have done some of those gravel roads together.
There's a guy from Illinois at the Chiso campground,riding a black F650 named Bob. Tell'em I said "Hi" and will see him at the Pecatonica Flea Market.
 
Keep up the good work, Santa. Luz your photography. Feel like I'm there, kinda sorta. Met U at Shilo rally back in '87 my first rally. U really got a kick out of that. Barry.
 
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Big Bend Loop

Travel east from Study Butte/ TERLINGUA on 118 to Maverick Junction, gravel road (south) to Santa Elena Canyon, north on Ross Maxwell Scenic Road to Castolon, Mule ears, and Sotol Vista.

Old Ore Road is in the northeast corner of the map, off of Dagger Flats Auto Trail and transverses south to Rio Grande Overlook

Old River Road loops on the bottom of the map

Gren Springs road is the gravel road through the center of the map.


Available Fuel Stops-

Alpine - Marathon - Stillwell Store on the road to La Linda -Study Butte (80 miles from Alpine) 2 stations:
Study Butte Chevron and Study Butte Store - Lajitas Trading Post in Lajitas (97 miles from Alpine)

In Big Bend National Park:

-Panther Junction(80 mi. from Marathon and 25 mi. from Study Butte)
-Rio Grande Village(25 mi. from Panther Junction)


-Speed limit in Big Bend National Park is 45 mph and is ENFORCED-

-Speed limit in Terligua area is 55 mph-

**DRINK PLENTY OF WATER**


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. . . . . . Big Bend National Park - Santa Elena Canyon

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The Bend

Big Bend National Park -- the size of Maryland

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BBNP is the only park in the United States that contains a complete mountain range - the Chisos.


On a sad note, 95 percent of the water volume of the Rio Grande is diverted upstream

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Big Bend NP - Ross Maxwell Scenic Road

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Big Bend NP - Ross Maxwell Scenic Road

Cerro Castellan (a geologist’s heaven)
is a prominent cone shape mountain rising from the desert floor about a mile northeast of the Castolon ranger station in Big Bend National Park,rises more than 1,000 feet above the terrain below.




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Texas Ghost town - CASTOLON, TEXAS

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Texas Ghost town
CASTOLON, TEXAS
Big Bend NPS Trading Post
Ross Maxwell Scenic Road



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Jim,

You have captured the neighborhood perfectly. Next time somebody asks me why we chose to live here, instead of saying anything I will just send them to this thread.
 
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