California Places to Go
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National Preserve Videos on the parks and cities. California Facts Capital: Sacramento |
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park |
Agua Caliente Regional Park |
Amboy,California |
Ludlow, California |
Antelope Valley Museum (Lancaster) California Highway 111: Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea, Bashford's Hot Mineral Spa, and the town of Niland, CA, home of Salvation Mountain and Slab City. Inscription Canyon
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Maturango Museum (Ridgecrest) Four Drives into the Heart of Desert Wildflower Country: California Highway 78, California Highway 14,The Pinal Pioneer Parkway, U.S. 93 Enlightening Gems - Museums of the Mojave: Route 66 Mother Road Museum, Western America Railroad Museum, Mojave River Valley Museum, Randsburg Museum, Eastern California Museum, Saxon Aerospace Museum, Twenty Mule Team Museum, California Route 66 Museum, NTC and Fort Irwin 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Museum, Maturango Museum, Kelso Depot Visitor Center, Needles Regional Museum Flowers and Fantastic Views - Titus Canyon, Panamint Valley to Rhyolite and the Goldwell Open Air Museum. |
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DesertUSA is a comprehensive resource about the North American deserts and Southwest destinations. Learn about desert biomes while you discover how desert plants and animals learn to adapt to the harsh desert environment. Study desert landscapes and how the geologic features unique to the desert regions are formed. Find travel information about national parks, state parks, BLM land, and Southwest cities and towns located in or near the desert regions of the United States. Access maps and information about the Sonoran Desert, Mojave Desert, Great Basin Desert, and Chihuahuan Desert, which lie in the geographic regions of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and Utah in the United States and into Mexico.
Anza Borrego - The Overview
Anza Borrego is California's largest state park, encompassing more than 600,000 acres. The Park includes many rugged mountain ranges and contains more than 500 miles of roads, as well as many fascinating geologic formations and historic places of interest. Watch this video to get an idea of some places you may want to visit.
Death Valley - Overview
Take the Death Valley grand tour - see the Badwater Basin, the lowest place in North America; the dramatically eroded Sabriski Point; Artist's Palette, with its unusual tonal colors; Salt Creek and its pupfish, Titus Canyon and more! See why Death Valley is such a spectacular National Park!
Joshua Tree NP - Rock Formations
The rocky landscape of Joshua Tree National Park has fascinated many of its visitors. The landscape of the White Tanks Campground was born more than 100 million years ago. You feel as though you might see a dinosaur step out from one of the Jumbo Rock piles at any moment. Explore the unique boulder formations at Joshua Tree National Park with the DesertUSA team.
Mojave National Preserve
Located between Los Angeles and Las Vegas is the Mojave National Preserve, a 1.6 million acre park. Trains pass through this area over rails built by the Union Pacific, leading to Kelso. See the Kelso Depot, built in 1924 and closed in 1985. It has been completely restored, and is now Mojave NP's information center, with museum exhibits and historically furnished rooms.
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We have a online Wildflower Field Guide that is designed to help you identify desert wildflowers by color, scientific name, region and common name. The pictures are sized to work on the iPod, iPhone and similar devices. With your iPod or phone you will easily be able to identify wildflowers while in the desert. Links for downloads are on the bottom of the Wildflower Field Guide page.
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