Riverside County, California
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- Arch Rock (Joshua Tree) — Natural · Riverside County, CA
Short, family-friendly lollipop hike to a natural monzogranite arch near White Tank Campground in Joshua Tree National Park. Trailhead at Twin Tanks parking …
- Chiriaco Summit — Historic · Riverside County, CA
I-10 desert summit community built around the General Patton Memorial Museum and the former Desert Training Center / Camp Young logistics corridor. The museu…
- Cholla Cactus Garden — Natural · Riverside County, CA
Dense stand of teddybear cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii) on Pinto Basin Road in Joshua Tree National Park, where the Mojave and Colorado deserts meet. A sh…
- Coon Hollow — Geology · Riverside County, CA
BLM primitive campground and desert wash camp in eastern Riverside County’s lower Colorado Desert, set among palo verde, smoke tree, mesquite, and ironwood. …
- Corn Springs — Natural · Riverside County, CA
BLM fan-palm oasis deep in a Chuckwalla Mountains canyon—year-round spring, California fan palms, migratory birds, and a small developed campground. Desert C…
- Cottonwood Spring — Natural · Riverside County, CA
Earthquake-fed oasis near Joshua Tree National Park’s southern entrance — native cottonwoods, later fan palms, Cahuilla bedrock mortars, and gold-era mill re…
- Desert Lily Sanctuary — Natural · Riverside County, CA
BLM Area of Critical Environmental Concern (~2,000 acres) in Chuckwalla Valley northeast of Desert Center set aside for desert lily (Hesperocallis undulata) …
- Dos Palmas Preserve — Wildlife · Riverside County, CA
BLM-managed desert oasis and wetland complex east of the Salton Sea where Coachella Canal seepage and natural springs support California fan palms, mesquite …
- Keys View — Natural · Riverside County, CA
Paved overlook at ~5,185 ft on the crest of the Little San Bernardino Mountains in Joshua Tree National Park, with panoramic views across Coachella Valley, t…
- Lost Horse Mine — Historic · Riverside County, CA
One of Joshua Tree National Park’s most successful historic gold mines (operated roughly 1893–1936; reported production over 9,000 ounces of gold). A maintai…
- Lost Palms Oasis — Natural · Riverside County, CA
One of five California fan-palm oases in Joshua Tree National Park—a secluded canyon grove reached by a long day hike from Cottonwood Spring through yucca, o…
- Malapai Hill — Geology · Riverside County, CA
Dark basalt volcanic dome rising above Queen Valley inside Joshua Tree National Park—one of the park’s clearest windows into young Mojave volcanism. Hard bla…
- March Field Historic District — Historic · Riverside County, CA
March Field Historic District is a historic district in Riverside County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for sign…
- Painted Canyon (Mecca Hills) — Geology · Riverside County, CA
Banded sandstone and mudstone badlands in BLM’s Mecca Hills Wilderness northeast of the Salton Sea / Coachella Valley. The popular Ladder Canyon–Painted Cany…
- Ryan Mountain — Natural · Riverside County, CA
Popular Joshua Tree National Park summit hike to a 5,457-ft peak with panoramic views over Lost Horse Valley, Wonderland of Rocks, and the Pinto Basin — clas…
- Skull Rock — Natural · Riverside County, CA
Iconic granite boulder in Joshua Tree National Park whose twin hollows resemble eye sockets — formed by chemical weathering and rainwater pooling in small de…
- Thousand Palms Oasis (Coachella Valley Preserve) — Wildlife · Riverside County, CA
BLM Coachella Valley Preserve oasis of native California fan palms along the San Andreas Fault zone north of the Coachella Valley. A mile-long trail system w…
- Whitewater Preserve — Wildlife · Riverside County, CA
2,846-acre (preserve core ~2,246 ac) Wildlands Conservancy property along the perennial Whitewater River at the mouth of a major canyon corridor into the San…