I’ll start our tour of the Big Bend National Park area with a stop that’s just outside the park itself. Terlingua Ghost town is on FM-170, about 8 miles from BBNP’s western entrance, and five miles west of TX-118 (and the similarly named community of Terlingua-Study Butte). If you don’t want to stay in the park (it offers just one expensive motel in Chisos Basin), you’ll probably want to find a place here. I stayed three nights at the El Dorado Hotel, which was far from luxurious, but a decent bargain (at $79/night) given its location. Somehow, I forgot to […]