big bend 2026

christina's picks 🦎

watching cameron scramble up rocks
fried pickles @ long draw pizza

cameron's picks 🤠

stargazing @ mel's
little bear street eats

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saturday, march 21

🚗💨

city market burritos and coffee
pops 66 rest stop/soda store
okc
- radbar
  - loaded fries, another shrubbery, prairie artisan ales tiny esses
- dig it! vintage and art shop
- factory obscura
- bar sen
  - freezer martini, green curry margarita, chicken karaage, spicy cucumber salad, khao poon nam gai (red curry vermicelli), vegan khao piek sen (noodle soup)
blanchard, ok

3j farms hipcamp (peacock room grain bin)

📍 pops 66

📍 factory obscura, okc

📍 3j farms

dwayne.

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sunday, march 22

🐐🦚

viridian coffee
- cold brew, peach and strawberry parfait, protein pack
galveston seafood & grill
- shirley temple, catfish platter with fries and coleslaw
the gage hotel
- 12 gage restaurant
  - the early check in, texas dirty martini, buttermilk fried quail with jalapeño honey bbq, burrata and tomato salad, swordfish, banana bread pudding

dwayne again.

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monday, march 23

🏕️🌅

v6 cafe
- cold brew, avocado burrito, avocado toast
enter big bend via persimmon gap
panther junction visitor center
- native plants of big bend garden
boquillas port of entry
- float across the rio grande
- boquillas del carmen
  - bought bracelet from a child
  - vegetarian tacos, guac, margaritas
boquillas canyon hike
hot springs
campsite break / shower
long draw pizza
- accidental champagne, chardonnay, happy camper ipa, fried pickles, 12" big cheesy
stargazing at mel's campground + passion fruit quirk

meow.

📍 usa.

📍 rio grande.

📍 mexico!

📍 boquillas canyon

horse.

📸🪨

📍 hot springs

📍 mel's place

📍 long draw pizza

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tuesday, march 24

🌵🔭

bella beans
- cold brew, sausage and cheese kolache, mountain berry muffin, everything bagel
ross maxwell scenic drive
- santa elena canyon trail
- castolon
- tuff canyon overlook
- mule ears viewpoint
- lower burro mesa trail
- sotol vista
- sam nail ranch
terlingua
- terlingua trading company
- cantina
  - pecos pina rita, santa elena marg
- starlight theater
  - prickly pear-rita, scorpion marg, chips & salsa, chicken sandwich, shrimp tacos

📍 santa elena canyon

🔍

📍 lower burro mesa pouroff trail

🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

📍 starlight theater

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wednesday, march 25

🥾☀️

bella beans
- cold brew, sausage and cheese kolache, chocolate muffin, everything bagel
window trail
- park at chisos mountain amphitheater
balanced rock
high sierra bar and grill
- peach marg, marg, buffalo chicken & blue cheese mac and cheese, beyond burger

7:27am

☕

📍 window trail

moon.

📍 balanced rock

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thursday, march 26

🦂🌞

lost mine trail
chisos mountain lodge food truck
- chicken tenders and tots
panther junction visitor center
fossil bone exhibit
gage hotel
- pool
ghost fire pizza and desert ghost distilling
- margherita pizza
- texas chica, boquillas old fashioned, cold brew martini, the desert ghost
white buffalo bar
- chips and salsa
- sotol margarita, old fashioned

📍 lost mine trail, 7:30am

📍 fossil bone exhibit

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friday, march 27

☕🐦️

v6 cafe
- cold brews, avocado toast, migas
grain theory
- duskmorn, gt tonic: cherry-blossom pear, fish and chips
medicine park, ok
- birdhouse rentals (painted bunting)
- little bear street eats
  - gogi doner, shrimp doner, rosemary sea salt patatas bravas

📍 abilene, tx

📍 medicine park, ok

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saturday, march 28

🚗🏠

heritage farm and ranch
- drip coffee, everything bagel with cream cheese

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