Dry Wash

A dry creek bed in Big Bend National Park. With a few exceptions, the waterways of the Big Bend region are mainly dry washes that only see water during the brief and often violent flash floods of the rainy "monsoon" season. Then they fill rapidly and roar with water, shutting off roads and racing to the Rio Grande.

But for most of the year they are bone dry.

This is one such wash not too far from the Cottonwood Campground as it crosses the road. It is wide and gravelly. In the distance one can prominently see Cerro Castellan, the remains of a volcanic peak and the Chisos in the distance.