RHH's photos with the keyword: dugout wells

After spending the night camping along the river road we headed north once again stopping at Dugout Wells and walking the short trails there. These were the Chisos Mountains from the trails. The weather was not very good with clouds moving in and that would affect our plans for the day.

These were the Chisos Mountains on the morning of our fifth day in Big Bend National Park. Eventually, trying to avoid bad weather we would end up hiking once again in the Chisos Basin.

The day in Big Bend National Park was partly cloudy and rainy and we would end up changing our plans and hiking in the Chisos Basin and in these mountains.

After spending a night at Paint Gap Hills we drove to the southeast end of Big Bend National Park and to Boquillas Canyon, stopping at Dugout Wells on the way. Dugout Wells was a small settlement in the early nineteenth century around a spring. The settlement at that time even had a schoolhouse but now only a windmill is left. The place is a good spot for bird watching and has a short interpretative trail through the Chihuahuan desert. These photos were taken at Dugout Wells and along that trail, this of Opuntia engelmannii, Engelmann's Prickly Pear.

The fourth day of our stay in Big Bend National Park was spent along the east side of the park. The photo was taken from the Dugout Wells area and the Chihuahuan Desert Nature trail there and looks west to the Chisos Mountains.

This windmill is all that is left of an early twentieth century settlement at Dugout Wells in Big Bend National Park.