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Big Bend National Park

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Noun1.Big Bend National Park - a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife
Lone-Star State, Texas, TX - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico


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The dusty ranch town of Marfa, TX, has long been a destination for James Dean fans (the movie Giant was shot there) and nature lovers exploring Big Bend National Park.
Subsequent to the Yosemite transactions, the next instance where a state park was "absorbed" into a unit of the national park system seems to have occurred in Texas, where Big Bend National Park (authorized 1935; established 1944) included lands comprising Texas Canyons State Park, established in 1933.
It's even prompted park officials to close a section of Big Bend National Park to springtime hikers.
 
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