Virtual Guidebook to West Texas
The River Road
Big Bend National Park, Texas

International gauging station on the Rio Grande.

 View of Punta del Sierra in the Chisos Mountains, from the River Road.
An old car and other junk at the Mariscal mercury mine. At the base of the Mariscal Mill and Mine complex.
Next to where the furnace and still were located, Mariscal mercury mine. Mine shafts pockmark the hill above the Mariscal mine.
The Rio Grande at Solis, halfway along the River Road. Desert pavement, Chihuahuan Desert on the River Road.
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