Sixty years ago my family went there. All I remember is ALL the flies and GNATS! NOW I see why my parents took us. Thank you.

That's gotta be the prettiest water in Texas.

Submerged wood cabin about 20 x 20 used to be underwater adjacent to the springs. The building was a fishing camp in the 1950s. The lake was still filling up which made it so cool to glide over the structure atop the clear water. At this time, 1972, the lake level was two or three feet above the springs which made for good fishing. We caught a 30 lb cat on rod and reel which had been chilling in the running water along a ledge.

My gosh that's gorgeous! God truly blessed Texas! ❤️🤍💙🤠🙏

Wow, takes me back! Did some winter and summer camping on the Devil's in my younger days. Probably the coldest I've ever been. Could drink right out of the river no problem. It gets super rugged in some of the side canyons. Wonderful memories. Beautiful Texas!

Never seen the Devil's River, but after seeing how tremendously beautiful it is, now I want to buy a kayak and do just what you did!

That lodge isn't fancy, but it had the best Texas sunset ever when my husband and I visited. The serenity was great.

This is the first time since the mid-1990's that I now see a reason to re-visit Texas.

I would take my family other places on vacation until i realized how beautiful Texas is. Now we vacation o e year abroad and the next in Texas.

Man that is just beautiful! We’re taking our first trip to Big Bend around Christmas. I want to try to try to see this on the way home. People need to chill out on the name. John Coffee Hayes was a badass and deserves that accolade of getting to name that river.

I've lived in Texas 99% percent of my life but never knew such beauty existed here. Thank you so much for sharing! Your voice is so smooth and radio like, can't wait for more videos. I'll buy you you a steak if you come to Texarkana lol

Been watching your videos for the past year now. This is the most beautiful river so far I have seen. Loved seeing all the monarch butterflies! I had to laugh when you told the story of Jack Hayes. My dad’s name was Jack Hayes as well. Keep up the great work on the videos. I look forward to visiting some of the towns you have shown in the past. Thank you!

Is gorgeous! Doesn’t make me think of evil at all ! Thank ya

Beautiful water! You got my roommate with the sudden stop at the caves! Lol good job!🤣

Absolutely beautiful!! I will have to go down there sometime. Thanks for sharing :)

Interesting video. Thanks for making it.

Glad to see all those Monarchs flying around.

I love all your videos, but the clear river kayak explorations are my favorite. Those springs were amazing! I don't get why anyone has a problem with the name. It is what it is. 😂 The devil was said to be the most beautiful angel, but danger can be hidden behind great beauty.

Absolutely beautiful!!

That was amazing 👏 thank you for sharing

Beautiful place. I just read a book called Empire of the Summer Moon. Ranger Hays had a section about him and his time fighting Comanche. Great video.

I've seen some beautiful places in Texas. This takes the cake. Definitely on my next vaction spots. ✌

My bucket list. Love from Seabrook Texas. Your videos remind me of all the amazing trips my family and I had on so many Texas rivers.

My wife and I live on the south side of Lake Amistad. Let me know if you ever need a place to stay for a jumping off point in the area.

Really happy to see you return to Devil's River! I found your channel through your last Devil's River video and I've been dying to go ever since.

Beautiful. The lodge looks like it would be an awesome place to stay at. I looked up their website. Thank you for sharing.

Just know: there is very little access to the river. Most of the banks are private property and you are not generally welcome. It’s a very private river. Come prepared for your trip. Don’t take it for granted that you can pull over and have a picnic or set up camp. These spots are few and far between

At 4:11 into video - that looks like a spring to me. The gaping hole at the bottom of the waterway, with water pumping out, clear and clean... typical of many springs.

Added to my bucket list ~ Beautiful ~

Perfect place to spend time in these end days! Maranatha!

What a fantastic video and great history lesson. Remember the name Jack Hayes from that book Empire of the Summer Moon. That river is so beautiful and gotta visit some day.

Beautiful area! Great story too.

The water is beautiful. I guess the Devil's river is the place to go when these rivers around here {The Frio & the Nueces} are dry or very low. But it doesn't seem like that river ever dries up. What I like about it is, it doesn't look too overcrowded or nothing. I love Texas. I have many favorite places.

Absolutely beautiful...

I went north of Lake Amistad and was amazed at the beauty, cleanliness, and remoteness of the river. This is true because the river doesn’t flow through any human development and has few human visitors. Unfortunately this wonderful natural jewel is now being publicized. The more known it becomes the more likely developers will show up and ruin it, what with the population explosion in central Texas and the arrival of very wealthy people. So sad that we can’t share about a wonderful place then worry about it being “discovered.”

Talk about a history lesson and flashback to relatives talk / sharing stories here in Texas (especially West Texas) and the Texas Rangers... My direct relative is a Texas Ranger named Gully Cowsert.. Yeah these are seriously tough men back then.. Thanks for the tour! The cave diver in me is smiling and I'm just going have to go here and poke around a bit.. Probably nothing to enter, or someone likely would have done it before, but heck! That is some amazing visibility... Thank you for putting this up!!

Why do many of you have difficulty with the name of Devils River. ? Like Ranger Jack Hays stated, the river and the land around it is not forgiving. It’s a difficult river to navigate in some places. As far as the land everything will cut and stick you. It’s not a place for a rookie to paddle. You need to check in with the rangers so they will know when to expect you if you decide to finish at the headquarters. There’s also little or no phone reception . Also the majority of the land is private . You will have to camp on a sandbar if you stay over nite . But it can be a great adventure with the most beautiful water . Just plan ahead and be careful. There will be consequences for mistakes on that river. Good Luck to all !

Wow that's gorgeous

Great video....gorgeous river

Wow, that’s a beautiful river

As a child we used to go to the lake Amestad and camp for two weeks at a time!! Boating and fishing was amazing! Good memories 🙂

Thanks for this video. A lot of this video it seemed that Monarch butterflies were following or with you throughout. That is really good to see. 👍 I don't see to many videos about beautiful rivers in the Texas environment, so, this was a plus!

That water looks absolutely delicious!

Such beautiful landscapes and water. Oh to fish there.

WOW ! I would L💙VE to live near there and EXPLORE unti I croak. 🦋

😊 what a gorgeous place. that water is so beautiful and clear looks like it would be refreshing to drink it, but I'm afraid in our days, the time when you could drink water from my Creek has unfortunately passed, I think. Anyhow wonderful video thank you very much for sharing! 👍

The water is beautiful!

Definitely one of my favorite rivers in Texas!!

That rock building needs to be restored by the state or federal department. There is still a good structure there to restore.

Nice clip, thanks for sharing

Beautiful

Good video thank you

Great video

Texas has a lot of springs and underwater caves. There's a big spring / cave system in San Marcos.

Love that area!

Beautiful country!!!

We STILL haven’t made it there yet even though my wife’s aunt has a ranch right on one of the most scenic parts of the river.

Good video

I manage & make my KZfaq videos on the ranch that makes up the peninsula from this video. Good video 🤙🏼

Are those springs safe to drink out of? Beautiful area! Thank you for sharing this.😊

you just can't beat TEXAS

Bigfoot Wallace is my favorite Texas Legend

Those of us that grew up there would like to see these secret places preserved. Don’t throw pearls before swine you know.

"THE DEVIL'S RIVER..." Strangely named for a piece of heaven.

Great video! Sorry if I missed this point; how long is the trip total? (From the lodge?)

The 1st spring is the big one but the lake water level is at the top of it.

Great video. Thank you for uploading. Quick question - do you need to stay at the Lodge at Sanders in order to putin/takeout ones kayak there?

I really want to experience the beauty of the Devil's River before I can no longer hike & climb. I am wondering if the safety of the river has been jeopardized by the influx of illegal crossings into Texas. I will check back to this site for your response. Thanks!

Hey good video, how far upriver did you have to paddle to reach the Devil's River? And How long is the hike to be able to launch the kayak?

I know you mentioned the sediment , thank you for that . Can you swim in it though ?. Did you say you drank some of the water. Was it directly out of the spring

I understand the spring water is cold but what about the river water temperature?

Are some areas too shallow for the kayak to pass? What month did you make this trip? I’m guessing summer would be too hot and too shallow?

Would you mind me asking what date you were out there? I was out there Sept.6 and the water was still tea brown from Sept.3 spike. I am curious if you were out there much earlier than Oct 16. Great Videos, thanks.

What temperature is the water in say, April?

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Lord Thank you for Texas! Help us keep it this way GOD HAS BLESSED TEXAS!!

Shhhhh....please don't let anyone know, ok? Trying to keep it that way.

Can you travel through it without a kayak?

There's Devil's Lake in Wisconsin by Wisconsin Dells.

The Frio farther East used to be that clear and clean.

If you want to know more about Jack Hays Big Foot Wallace etc, read J. Frank Dobie. Best writer in Texas about this era.

I doubt that it is still flowing this year.

Jack "Coffee"Hays is buried in Oakland Calif .

I would buy the station to fix it up to live in

5:49 It's Jabba the Hutt!

What is the date this video was taken?

Why is it named satans canyon and devils river?

Do you need a pass to go upriver?

I’m gonna bypass Del Rio these days.

i guess if you are in a desert, a spring is a big deal.

What types of fish are in the river? Anyone ever fish this river? Beautiful river

The Comanches drove the Spanish out, and kept the Texans at bay until the 'six shooter' was introduced to the area at the time of, if not just after the Civil War. They, the Comanches were outstanding warriors. They, like even current day American Citizens will soon be, were defeated by technology.

Its all gone to crap. Glad im old. Tourists come in and take ruins with them or cut my fences to just walk on through. Used to be way deeper.

The only devil there is, is doubt. I saw Doubt fall...

Let’s be real… read that massive 2 volume work called “Indian Depredations in Texas.” The settlers were invited by the Mexican govt to serve as a buffer to the Comanche raids FROM the Llano Escatado and west Texas. The Comanche pushed the Apache west and simply raided Mexican villages south of the Rio grande and ergo the Texans were supposed to act as bait and the Comanche would raid (stories so horrific you couldn’t type them on here) the Hill Country and East and escape West of the Hills to the plains where they could not be tracked. After Texas gained its independence from NEW non-functional and turned Totalitarian dictatorship of Santa Ana the Texans and Tejanos said “this isn’t what we signed up for, Internally?” The new dictatorship rejected the federalist constitution and Texas won its independence. Since the loser doesn’t get to dictate terms of a surrender Texas claimed land to the Rio grande, a perfect border, the Nueces is NOT a border. Mexico knew that and that’s why they deposed Santa Ana and said the treaty was null and void. Well… in order to “own” land you must occupy it and defend it or it’s not yours. But Mexico had no garrison north of the Rio Grande and ended up sparking the Mex-Am war by shooting at soldiers on the NORTH side of the river from the South. If the us was going to back up the claim this HAD to be an act of war. Moreover, the Mexican govt paid Comanche to terrorize settlers during the period of the republic as a means of subversion and non-conventional warfare. Mr. Hays is a hero and every Texas should know him and respect him and all his rangers did to carve a civilization out of a wasteland that no one wanted to settle, even the Comanche. There was nothing of value to anyone back then in Texas but freedom and death. Now everyone wants Texas and the baseball team, not having officially changed their name, are totally removing any and all association with their namesake with their new uniforms and the literal team video and pdfs regarding the meaning of the entire uniform. They are ripping your history from and making you and your children ashamed of the oceans of blood spilled in our ancestors attempt leave an inheritance to us and we are giving it away without so much as an attempt to seek the truth in what is painted as a one-sided ridiculous narrative that is so simple a child can get it… and Texans are now in the black hats… who writes your bed time stories texas?

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I would love to go swim there... There no gold in Texas > ONLY BLACK GOLD > Oil. We have some of the best drinking water 💦💦🌊🌊💧💧 IN THE WORLD

And the Chinese bought land on it to put up a windfarm 👎🏼

I was told the devils river was named because people would slip in the holes and not come out

It's called 'Rio Diablo'. Sounds so much better than 'the Devil's River'.