Big Bend is one of the contiguous United States’ largest and most remote national parks. Its far-flung locale may be why its scruffy charms have long gone underappreciated
, which roller-coasters its way along the western fringe of the ruddy Chisos Mountains. By the time I arrived, it was over 90 degrees.
The trail snaked through acre after acre of ocotillo, yucca, sotol, and sagebrush. But my eyes remained trained on the vista ahead—specifically, on the two dark, more or less triangular pillars jutting out of the plain, in and then out of view with every turn the trail took. The geological anomalies happen to be lone survivors of a volcanic eruption in the park that otherwise disintegrated enormous frozen sheets of magma about 29 million years ago.
I threw the meat in my cooler and drove another half hour west to Marfa. Initially famous as the movie set for the 1956 Western filmstarring James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor, the town spent the ensuing postproduction four decades in a state of slumber. Or so it seemed: The minimalist artisthad relocated there during the 1970s, quietly snatching up downtown real estate and erecting striking art installations in the desert. A trickle of Judd disciples begat a flood of artists.
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