🌵 Big Bend · printable plan
Big Bend from Frisco
By TopVacay @topvacay. Inspired by TopVacay curator. Prices last checked 2026-10-27. Totals are estimates: $1,365 for 2 travelers.
Recomputed from the price lines stored on each trip. No live hotel, ticket, or airfare feed is connected.
Day by day
Day 1
About nine hours from Frisco to the park. The Midland flight is only if you are not driving. Sleep in the basin, not in a trailhead lot.
- Morning · Big Bend park entrance
- Afternoon · Panther Junction visitor center
- Overnight · Chisos Mountains Lodge
Day 2
Window View Trail from the lodge, paved and short. This is not the pour-off scramble.
- Morning · Window View Trail
- Overnight · Chisos Mountains Lodge
Day 3
Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive and the labeled stops. Skip a canyon walk if the river is up.
- Morning · Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive
- Overnight · Chisos Mountains Lodge
Day 4
Drive back toward Frisco. Summer heat in the desert is the reason this trip starts early and carries water.
- Open day.
Packing
- Trail shoes and a layerThe walks are outside, and the morning is cooler than the afternoon.
- More water than you thinkThese days are away from a store.
Reserve ahead
- American 1433day 1 once you set dates · Hold the seats before the fare you estimated moves.
- Delta 1611day 4 once you set dates · Hold the seats before the fare you estimated moves.
- Big Bend park entranceday 1 once you set dates · Buy the ticket for this day so the morning is not spent in a ticket line.
- Chisos Mountains Lodgeday 1 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Chisos Mountains Lodgeday 2 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.
- Chisos Mountains Lodgeday 3 once you set dates · This is the room for that night. Reserve it before you count on the rate.