Campsites, trails to reopen after wildfire in Texasâ Big Bend National Park With the South Rim Fire at 80% containment and no longer deemed a threat to developed areas, the NPS has scheduled the reopening of the parkâs popular Chisos Basin area on Friday, April 23. (Source: National Park Service) By Tom VandenBerg | April 21, 2021 at 3:22 AM CDT - Updated April 21 at 3:34 AM
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (News release) - With the 1341 acre South Rim Fire at 80% containment and no longer deemed a threat to developed areas, the National Park Service (NPS) has scheduled the reopening of the parkâs popular Chisos Basin on Friday, April 23rd at 11:00 a.m.
Fire burns more than 850 acres in Big Bend National Park, may have started near popular campsite
Chisos Basin is closed due to fire
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Smoke at Boot Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Image: NPS / M. Woolley (National Park Service)
A fire at Big Bend National Park that has burned for nearly a week has grown to at least 863 acres.
The National Park Service, which oversees the park in Far West Texas, said Monday that much of the fire is located in the “sky island” in the high Chisos Mountains.
The blaze has “left a patchy mosaic of scorched, burned, slightly singed, and untouched areas across the South Rim to Emory Peak, and into the lower Boot Canyon drainage,” officials said, adding that about two-thirds of the fire became stagnant after reaching rocky terrain or the edges of cliffs.
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The fire has burned more than 800 acres in the Chisos Mountains over five days.Â
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Although the wildfire at Big Bend National Park has spread to 929 acres, according to the National Parks Service Wednesday morning, about 35 percent of it has been contained. The Carson Hotshots, a firefighting crew from the Carson National Forest in New Mexico, arrived Monday night to help the other crews battling the blaze. The total number of firefighters working in the Chisos Mountains is now 88. Follow along with updates here.Â
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