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Boca Chica Beach-Mouth of the Rio Grande We arrived to Boca Chica Beach with very high winds and high tide, the waves were coming all the way up to the road and my wife gave this funny look, as I started driving into the beach, but we had driven two thousand miles for this already and nothing...

The rest of the way down the Texas-Mexico Border did not offer any dirt/off-road trails and was made on pavement, but following the river as close as possible. The Amistad Dam at Del Rio, Texas . . . Falcon Dam near Zapata, Texas . Brownsville, Texas. . On our way to Boca Chica Beach. . ...

BBNP-Pecos River More of BBNP. The Chisos Mountains. . . . The Pecos River. . . . The Pecos River mouth, where it meets the Rio Grande. .

Big Ben NP-Santa Elena Canyon Old Maverick Road. . . . Santa Elena Canyon. . . . . . Mule ears .

And that was back in July, right now there's no water at all, not even a puddle; just sand.

This is how the river looks just after the dam has been closed. . We continued later on our way down the border . . This is the border area of Presidio, TX and Ojinaga, Mexico. Here's where the Rio Conchos meets the Rio Grande and the river flows once again. . We camped by the river at BBSR...

The Border Near Las Cruces, NM. . The river at El Paso, TX; near Santa Teresa, NM and the Mexican Border. The mountains on the background are in Mexico, the Juarez Sierra. . . This is as far as we could go on this side of the border, that's the American dam which diverts the river water for...

The Rio Grande at Albuquerque. . Elephant Butte Dam. The lowest I've seen it so far. . . . . . Caballo Lake . . .

Rio Grande Gorge We continued down the road to Taos and the Rio Grande Gorge and RG Canyon, following the river... . Eagles nest. . Taos Canyon . The Gorge . Rio Grande Canyon . . . . . . . . .

Thanks! I know its long, but it's hard to choose what parts to leave and what to take out on such a nice trail.

Video Now, here's a video. https://youtu.be/nNk2mBsYGwo

Very nice report and pictures! It's an awesome place, we were there just three weeks ago and even though we just went through following the river in our way to the gulf, it was enough to make us start planning a future trip with more time to explore.

The following day we went to Red River, NM, to do the Goose Lake trail. . . . .

Thanks everyone for your comments. I'm a little behind in this report and we'll continue on the second leg of this adventure in about two weeks, so I'm gonna speed things up a bit. We continued down the road along the river until we hit HWY. 149, we went through Creede, South Fork Alamosa and...

It's got a welded C-channel reinforcing underframe with Jeep Cherokee XJ rear suspension leaf springs with coilover shocks and 15" tires, instead of the factory 13's. Also the body panels have been reinforced with screwed gussets and metal plates and expanding foam insulation between outer shell...

The Rio Grande Reservoir We continued on that road (FS520) and climbed up the mountain one last time and began descending into a nice valley along the river. We encountered a couple of guys hunting in a chevy truck, they stopped and asked me, "Are you guys coming from up there?" Yes, I said...

I've always been fascinated with this river's enormously rich social, cultural and political history, but it was actually Colin McDonald and his Disappearing Rio Grande Expedition who inspired this, he did it kayaking and walking, so I thought why not do it in a jeep?

A video. https://youtu.be/ZsJpl7sGNis

As we continued our trek towards Rio Grande reservoir... . ...the road got narrow and rocky...and then muddy...then rocky again... . . . ...but with beautiful scenery... . . . . .

Then we finally made it to the top, Stony Pass...Veni, Vidi, Vici... . . What more can I say...I'll let the pictures do the talking... . After a few minutes of savoring the moment we started the descent ….to the other side… . You can barely see down there the Rio Grande trickle...