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Big Bend National Park is southeast of Alpine on SR 118 and US 385. The park derives its name from a U-shaped bend of the Rio Grande bordering the park. This last great wilderness area of Texas offers mountain and desert scenery and a variety of unusual geological structures within its 801,163 acres.

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