Cool Mountains

People have long sought relief from desert heat in the Chisos Mountains and Mexico's Maderas del Carmen. Forests, steep slopes, shade, and cooler temperatures there allow wholly different plants and animals to live in the Big Bend. In the 1930s and early 1940s, the US Civilian Conservation Corps worked extensively in the park from a base in the mountains. About 200 young men, 80 percent of whom were Hispanic, built a reliable water supply in the mountains, roads, stone and adobe cottages, and trails.

Coahuila · Mexico