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Submitted: 3/29/20 • Approved: 3/30/20 • Last Updated: 4/2/20 • R290682-G0-S3
The San Vicente cemetery is located at the former site of the village of San Vicente, within Big Bend National Park, which still contains traces of its former occupation. The cemetery lies at the base of a ridgeline and contains 37 graves. It should not be confused with San Vicente Crossing farther southwest, which has another cemetery.
Directions:
From Main Park Road 118, turn south onto dirt River Road East. Drive 2.7 miles south to where the La Clocha road branches off to the southeast. Go another 1500 feet to the next dry creek bed. Park out of the way, and hike northwest 500 feet on the dry creek bed, to where it cuts through a low
ridge and turns north. Continue to the west, bearing about 280 degrees, 1000 feet across the flat desert to the ridgeline which runs north-south. The cemetery lies at the base of the ridge. Total hiking distance one-way is 1500 feet, or 3-tenths of a mile. The valley 800 feet to the south contains the ruins of several crude stone homes, remnants of the former village.
*Photograph & data courtesy of:
John Rich
Contributed on 3/29/20 by ashaw444
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