There’s a monster under my bed. Well, maybe. It’s 2:36 a.m., and I’m lying inside a 1930s-era state park cabin, a carefully constructed mass of sandstone clinging resolutely to the rim of the second-largest canyon in the United States. Something has awakened me, and my mind drifts to the coyotes and western diamondback rattlesnakes that live outside these rough rock walls. But realistically, if there’s anything in this cabin other than me and my mom, who’s sleeping in the next room, it’s the Palo Duro mouse, a long-tailed, big-eared critter that I’ve been warned may, despite the best efforts of park staff, wiggle its way inside to hide from predators. I lie in the dark, listening to the wind whistle, and drift back to sleep,…The post Texas Has the Second-Largest Canyon in the U.S. How Had I Never Been Before? appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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