National Park Quiz - Big Bend

US State

County in which the park is located

Nearest town

Year designated as a national park

River that marks the US-Mexico border and forms the "big bend" that the park draws its name from

Name of the desert where Big Bend is located

Term for a mountain environment isolated from the rest of the world by a desert

Pig-like creature also known as a collared peccary

Mexican general who raided the town of Glenn Springs, now a campground

Native American tribe that is the namesake of a trail from which they would launch raids into Mexico

Type of stone that makes up the steep walls of Santa Elena Canyon

Mountain range entirely within Big Bend National Park, which caps out at Emory Peak

Main visitor center that is also the park headquarters

Geothermal feature once sought out by the sick and injured

Stone perched on two pillars, located on the Grapevine Hills Trail

Apart from the nearby Wild and Scenic River, the nearest other site managed by the National Park Service, once home to a military base