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Big Bend National Park
Doing Business With The Park
An outfitter guides a group of canoes upstream into Santa Elena Canyon
© Kipp Baker
An outfitter guides a group of canoes upstream into Santa Elena Canyon.
 
Special Use Permits
Special Use Permits are required for nontraditional, or unusual, uses and activities such as weddings. Requests for Special Use Permits may be made by writing the Superintendent or calling the park (432-477-2251) to initiate the process. Please allow adequate lead time to allow for permit preparation, review and approval. Fees for these permits may apply.
 
Commercial Use Authorization / Incidental Business Permits
Permits are required of all operators who provide any and all goods, activities, agreements or other services to the general public which take place, at least in part, in the park, uses park resources and are undertaken for or results in compensation, monetary gain, benefit or profit to an individual, organization or corporation, whether or not such entity is organized for purposes recognized as non-profit under local, state or federal law. This includes educational institutions.
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Jeep driving the River Road  

Did You Know?
Environmental essayist Edward Abbey once wrote of Big Bend National Park, "I’d rather be broke down and lost in the wilds of Big Bend, any day, than wake up some morning in a penthouse suite high above the megalomania of Dallas or Houston."
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Last Updated: June 13, 2007 at 15:16 EST