![National Park Service Logo](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115225616im_/http://www.nps.gov/imr/templates/images/graphics/parkblackband.gif) |
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115225616im_/http://www.nps.gov/imr/templates/images/graphics/blkshim.gif) |
![National Park Service: U.S. Department of the Interior](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115225616im_/http://www.nps.gov/imr/templates/images/graphics/prntarrw.gif) ![National Park Service Arrowhead](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115225616im_/http://www.nps.gov/imr/templates/images/graphics/prnttitl.gif) |
|
|
|
Big Bend National Park
Photo Gallery
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
![Persimmon Gap, viewed from the south Persimmon Gap, viewed from the south](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115225616im_/http://www.nps.gov/imr/customcf/apps/CMS_HandF/Pictures/BIBE_rjbnpl52_dyk_pgap-2.jpg) |
|
Did You Know?
In 1935, Conrad Wirth, later the director of the National Park Service, said this of Persimmon Gap in Big Bend National Park, “There will probably always be a road from Marathon through . . . Persimmon Gap, which is a very fine and natural gateway to the Park.”
more...
|
|
|
|
Last Updated: August 04, 2006 at 17:38 EST |