Terlingua and Study Butte are sister cities between Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park in Texas. Study Butte has more of the services and Terlingua is focused more around the ghost town and tourist. Both are similar to other cities with tourist and artist based economies. Lots of funky weird stuff around plus the decaying leftovers of it’s mining past.

Remnants of a mining operation in Study Butte.
Remnants of a mining operation in Study Butte, some kind of oven?
Remnants of a mining operation in Study Butte.
Remnants of a mining operation in Study Butte.
Remnants of a mining operation in Study Butte.
Part of the ghost town in Terlingua.
Part of the ghost town in Terlingua.
Part of the ghost town in Terlingua.
A mine in Terlingua.
Graveyard in Study Butte.
Historic graveyard in Terlingua ghost town. See previous post for more photos.
A wash in Terlingua.
A wash in Study Butte.

Driving west from Terlingua, you enter the canyon along the Rio Grande River separating the USA and Mexico

Cactus along side the road in Big Bend Ranch State Park.
Picnic area in Big Bend Ranch State Park.
Mexico is to your Left.
Mexico is to your right.
Mexico is to your right.