Big Bend National Park - Park Newspaper (U.S. National Park Service)

The Big Bend 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 16 page newspaper is filled with valuable information and interesting articles written by Big Bend's naturalist division. This valuable resource is now available for you to download and read/print at your leisure.

The park newspaper is in PDF format and requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader for proper viewing and printing. For best results, we suggest that you download the file to your computer before viewing or printing.

Image of the front page of the park newspaper

J. Axel

Fall/Winter 2009-10 issue

Current Issue:
Nightland

The paper includes visit planning information regarding services, campgrounds, safety, recommendations on what to see, as well as a listing of the most popular day hikes in the park.

This issue of the Big Bend Paisano explores the park after dark. Paper versions will be available at the park in October, 2009.

Read it! [4MB PDF file]