Lower level visitor center with museum and 18-minute video orientation program, sales area, ranger assistance, restrooms, vending machine for soft drinks.
Upper level A/V room with 18-minute video orientation program and viewing platform. Upper level is not handicapped accessible.
Picnic area .5 mile below visitor center; seven covered tables; restrooms. All these facilities are handicapped accessible.
Lower Cliff Dwelling Trail is paved, but quite steep. Upper Cliff Dwelling Trail is unpaved, and requires walking up a creekbed and climbing on rocks to complete the hike.
Did You Know?
There are two "river roads" in the area of Big Bend National Park. One is the scenic state highway connecting Lajitas to Presidio to the west of the park; the other is the fifty-mile primitive dirt road connecting Castolon to Rio Grande Village inside the national park.
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