Park Planning

Rio Grande Autumn

NPS Photo/Blake Trester

 

National Park Service prepares a variety of planning and environmental documents to help guide it in managing park resources. These documents can range from site-specific impact analyses on facility locations, specific use-type such as backcountry or river use, to broader park-wide plans for future use and management of the park.

Plans and Projects

An archive of completed projects as well as projects with documents open for comment may be found on the PEPC website.

Chisos Basin Construction and Access Planning
Major infrastructure improvements to begin late spring 2025

 

Park Plans

• General Management Plan - approved May 2004
• Backcountry Management Plan - approved December 1995
• Comprehensive Interpretive Plan - approved October 2004
• Fire Management Plan - approved October 2005
• Recreational River Use Management Plan - approved March 1997
• Exotic Animal Management Plan - 2018
• Exotic Plant Management Plan - 2018
• Trespass Livestock Management Plan - 2018
• Big Bend NP Foundation Document - 2016