Big Bend National Park

Go off-grid when you stay at this amazing West Texas Airbnb near Big Bend National Park.

For the first time in decades, a new plant genus and species has been discovered in a national park, Big Bend National Park to be specific. It's been confirmed as a member of the sunflower family but it looks NOTHING like a sunflower.

Landing three on a list of 35 ain't bad, but it's missing a big one.

"Santa Elena Canyon has the tallest cliffs forming this Texas canyon, but it also has something else quite unique, rock-climbing bears."

Santa Elena Canyon is considered to be one of the most beautiful parts of Big Bend. TexasHillCountry.com describes it this way: "With walls upwards of 1,500 feet, Santa Elena Canyon has the tallest cliffs forming this Texas canyon, but it also has something else quite unique..."

It should come as no surprise that in a state as large as Texas - it could boast one of the best national parks in the country... and turns out, it does!

True that does seem like just a drop in the bucket that is the massive National Park