RHH's photos with the keyword: casa grande

This is Casa Grande from the Window Trail in the Chisos Basin of Big Bend National Park. We had hiked the trail and were returning when the photo was taken. The tall plant is the dried flower stalk of an agave.

Taken from the Window Trail in the Chisos Basin, the formation is Casa Grande, on outcrop of the Chisos Mountains of west Texas.

Taken on the last day of our stay in Big Bend National Park, these are the Chisos Mountains from the Chisos Basin,

On the last day of our stay in Big Bend National Park and after traveling to our campsite for the night, intending to hike in that area, we returned to the Chisos Basin and hiked the Window Trail. The weather at our campsite was overcast and threatening rain but we found sunshine in the basin. The Window is a narrow opening in the Chisos Mountains through which the water from the basin pours off. The trail is only three to four miles out and back and the photo was taken looking back down the trail to Casa Grade the peak in the center of the photo.

Casa Grande is one of the dominant peaks in the Chisos Mountains of west Texas though not the highest. This view of the peak was taken from the Window Trail, a trail we hiked the last day of our stay in Big Bend National Park.

After staying in the town of Study Butte overnight, we spent the second full day of our visit to Big Bend National Park exploring the west side of the park along the Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive. We drove into the park along the Old Maverick Road and then turned south on the scenic drive at Castolon. This photo was taken near Castolon and the insets there and along the Old Maverick Road. The mountains are the Chisos Mountains, the peak on the left Pulliam Peak if I am not mistaken, and the peak in the background Casa Grande. We had spent the previous day between these peaks in the Chisos Basin and would spend the last day of our stay in the park hiking to the gap through which Casa Grande is visible, the gap known as the Window.

As we hiked the Laguna Meadow trail in Big Bend National Park we could look back and see the the Chisos Basin where we had begun our hike and Casa Grande looming over the basin. We had come about four miles and had gained over 1000 feet of elevation at this point in our hike.

On the far left of this photo is the visitors' center and parking area for the Chisos Basin in Big Bend National Park. The peak on the right is Casa Grande. We had come several miles from the visitors' center up the Laguna Meadow trail when this photo was taken.

We were hiking the Laguna Meadow trail in Big Bend National Park in Texas when this photo was taken. The photo looks back down the trail into the Chisos Basin.

This was the view from the trail as we left the visitors' center in the Chisos Basin of Big Bend National Park behind. We were climbing steadily and headed for the south rim of the basin.

This was the kind of country we were hiking through when we hiked to the south rim of the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park.