Dog Canyon Trail -- Big Bend NP TX
N 29° 37.353 W 103° 08.578
13R E 679796 N 3278402
The trailhead for the Dog Canyon Trail off the Main park Road at Big Bend National Park
Waymark Code: WMV05N
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2017
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An easy to moderate 2 mile ling trail takes hikers to Dog Canyon. A longer 8-mile lop trail explores both Dog Canyon and Devil's Den at Big Bend National Park.
From the Trails southwest website: (
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Dog Canyon and Devil's Den, Big Bend National Park
Texas > Big Bend National Park > Chisos Mountains and the North > Hiking > Dog Canyon and Devil's Den
"The northernmost trails in Big Bend National Park lead to a pair of narrow ravines in the Santiago Mountains, the long, thin range that forms a natural boundary between the park and the adjacent Black Gap WMA. The shorter of the two is the level, 2 mile path to Dog Canyon, a deep but relatively wide ravine leading right through the mountains to the desert at the far side, and bordered by steep, rocky hillsides interspersed with vertical cliffs.
Rather more interesting is the 3.5 mile trail to Devil's Den in the mountain foothills a little way south; the Den is a narrow, enclosed, sheer-walled ravine through whitish limestone strata, containing pour-offs, potholes and terraces - like a slot canyon though not quite as narrow. The rougher and less-used path to Devil's Den branches off the Dog Canyon Trail after 1.5 miles, and both ravines can be seen via an 8 mile loop hike of which the last mile is a cross-country walk back to the trailhead, a signed parking area along US 385."
The parking is at the trailhead.