The Sierra Club is organizing a trip to Big Bend National Park. Participants will depart Dallas on a sleeper bus at 7:30 p.m., November 5, and return to Dallas by 6 a.m., November 10. This year’s trip features five hikes. Destinations include Mesa de Anguila, the Outer Mountain Loop and Mule Ears Overlook and two trips in the high Chisos Mountains, including either Blue Creek Canyon or the Window and Oak Spring and the Chimneys formation, an oasis called Red Ass Spring, more springs, historic ruins and a couple cool pour-offs.

Big Bend National Park is in Southwest Texas along the Mexican border, in a bend of the Rio Grande River that gives the park its name. The park preserves a vast section of the Chihuahuan Desert larger than the state of Rhode Island. There are mountain ranges within the park, but most of the land lies between 3,000 feet and 4,000 feet in elevation.

The cost (including transportation and permits) is $240 with registration by Oct. 27 at DallasSierraClub.org. Early registrations get preferred seats and bunks. For more information, call Mark Stein at 214-526-3733 or email [email protected].