The Rio Grande is not so "grande" when it flows through the isolated wilds of Big Bend National Park in Texas.
Big Bend National Park is probably the most isolated, inaccessible national park in all the Lower 48. It's a six-hour drive from El Paso -- a tank of gas, basically -- and El Paso isn't really near any other population centers. And the Rio Grande is just a shallow creek, at least late in the year, in this part of Western Texas. I remember reading on the park brochure that, at certain parts of the park, you might see people on the other riverbank trying to sell you things, and that, if they cross the river (which would get their feet, not their backs, wet), they would be in the U.S. illegally. From wading across a very shallow creek.
So if you want splendid isolation as part of your national park experienced, Big Bend definitely should be under consideration.
Visited December 2008.
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