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    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

Park Newspaper

The park newspaper, The Paisano, is published by the National Park Service for the orientation and education of visitors to Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River. This visitor guide is in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for proper viewing and printing. For best results, download the file to your computer before viewing or printing.
 

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Did You Know?

Wright Mountain

Wright Mountain, 6,041 feet (1,841 meters), is named for George Wright, head of the National Park Service's wildlife division in the 1930s. Wright visited the area several times in the 1930s. He and Yellowstone Superintendent Roger Toll were killed in a car accident leaving the Big Bend in 1936.