Places

Cotton fields below Castolon, 1933.

NPS/Big Bend National Park

 

Ranches, villages, trading posts and cavalry camps all existed in the Big Bend in the century prior to the park's establishment. A number of historic districts within the park protect the tangible evidence of human history in this region; elsewhere solitary ruins, graves or camps mark the spots where history was made.

The following pages provide a brief exploration of some of the historic places within Big Bend National Park.