After sleeping in and feasting on homemade pancakes, we decided to try paddling the Rio Grande. The Visitors Center in town didn’t really have much river intel when we asked, so we decided to just wing it and go....
West Contrabando Part Two
The Big Bend Ranch State Park trails out of the Contrabando Trailhead were so much fun the other day that we decided to ride the rest of them another time. Starting from the same place, we rode all the...
West Contrabando Trails
West Contrabando Trailhead just down the road from where we are camped is the start of a great trail system. During Prohibition contrabandistas brought huge amounts of liquor out of Mexico to the US border. They risked crossing the...
Guale Overlook and Rancherias Loop
There are so many different viewpoints in Big Bend Ranch State Park but it’s tough to get to all off them because of the remoteness of everything. For our last ride we hopped on our bikes and rode all...
Fort Leaton, Hoodoos, and Closed Canyon
Fort Leaton On our way to our new spot we stopped at Fort Leaton. Established in 1848 as a border trading post by a former Indian bounty hunter, it is an massive adobe fortress. The fort served as a...
Fresno Rim Overlook
Yesterday when we rode the Epic Trail we rode up through Fresno Canyon and was enamored with the beauty. Today we hiked out to an overlook that put us 700 feet up above where we had ridden. This was...
Cinco Tinajas and Leyva Escondido Loop, Big Bend Ranch State Park
In Spanish, “cinco tinajas” loosely means “five water filled rock basins”. When we checked in at the Visitors Center the first day, we saw a brochure for this hike and it looked interesting. All in all, the hike was...
Epic Trail, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas
Big Bend Ranch State Park (BBRSP) boasts one of two International Mountain Bike Association rated “Epic Rates” in Texas. The whole loop is 54 miles but we broke it up and did 36 miles of it from camp. We’ll...
El Solitario, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas
Ask yourself, when is the last time you felt like you were in the middle of nowhere? Remember what it felt like? When I stand and look around as far as I can see there is nothing but mountains,...