Landscape features of the core southwestern areas usually include mountains, mesas, high broad basins, plateaus, desert lands, and some plains, characteristic of the Basin and Range Province. The entire southwestern region features semi-arid to arid terrain. The far eastern part of southwestern Texas, for example the Texas Hill Country, consists of dry, tall, and rugged rocky hills of limestone and granite. South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley is mostly flat with many places consisting of scrub and bare topsoil, much like the deserts further west. Buttes are also located all over the southwestern states.
==========IMPORTANT NOTE==========
This is an Multipart, Multiday Travel Event. There will be strenuous hikes and you need to be physically fit. If you are serious about this trip, your airfare must be booked by March 1, 2015 in order for us to move on to finding accommodations.
