San Bernardino County, California
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- Afton Canyon — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
The Mojave River's dramatic cut through rainbow badlands — locally called the Grand Canyon of the Mojave — protected as a BLM ACEC inside Mojave Trails Natio…
- Amboy Crater — Geology · San Bernardino County, CA
A classic cinder-cone volcano and lava field along historic Route 66 in Mojave Trails National Monument. A roughly 3-mile round-trip trail crosses the black …
- Atolia — Ghost Town · San Bernardino County, CA
Mojave Desert tungsten (scheelite) camp east of Randsburg. Veins discovered 1904–05; Atolia Mining Company organized 1906 (Atkins + DeGolia portmanteau). WWI…
- Bagdad — Ghost Town · San Bernardino County, CA
Former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad and Route 66 service town in the Mojave between Amboy and Ludlow. It served as a water and section stop with ho…
- Baldwin Lake Ecological Reserve — Wildlife · San Bernardino County, CA
CDFW ecological reserve on the north side of intermittent Baldwin Lake in Big Bear Valley. Protects rare pebble-plain plant communities and vernal wet meadow…
- Big Morongo Canyon Preserve — Wildlife · San Bernardino County, CA
Desert oasis and riparian wildlife corridor in Morongo Valley linking the San Bernardino Mountains to the Coachella Valley. BLM Area of Critical Environmenta…
- Bristol Lake — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Broad dry lake on the Mojave Desert floor near Amboy—salt-flat and playa scenery east of Amboy Crater. A natural-feature stop on the Route 66 / Amboy corrido…
- Cadiz Dunes — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Nearly 20,000-acre BLM wilderness inside Mojave Trails National Monument preserving some of the cleanest free-standing sand dunes in the eastern Mojave, betw…
- Calico Ghost Town — Ghost Town · San Bernardino County, CA
Silver-rush mining town (founded 1881) in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert, later restored and operated as Calico Ghost Town Regional Park by San Be…
- Caruthers Canyon — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Botanically rich canyon in the New York Mountains of Mojave National Preserve—a chaparral “island” of oaks, manzanita, yerba santa, and pinyon–juniper at mid…
- Castle Peaks — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Jagged rhyolite spires on the northeast edge of Mojave National Preserve, overlooking Castle Mountains National Monument and the Ivanpah Valley. The peaks fo…
- Cima — Ghost Town · San Bernardino County, CA
Railroad pass town inside Mojave National Preserve on the Union Pacific (ex–Los Angeles & Salt Lake) line between the Ivanpah and Mojave River basins. A stor…
- Cinder Cone Lava Beds (Mojave Lava Tube) — Geology · San Bernardino County, CA
Pleistocene basalt cinder cones and flows in Mojave National Preserve (Cinder Cones National Natural Landmark). Visitor focus is the signed Aiken Mine Road a…
- Clark Mountain — Geology · San Bernardino County, CA
Dominant limestone peak of the Clark Mountain Range on the northern Mojave National Preserve approaches—classic desert range geology with steep carbonate cli…
- Dumont — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Historical Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad siding and desert place near the Amargosa River approaches to Dumont Dunes. A thin rail-era historic pin for the T&T …
- Dumont Dunes — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Large BLM Open Area of wind-blown sand dunes in the northern Mojave east of Hwy 127 between Baker and Death Valley Junction. Popular OHV and sandboarding des…
- Fort Piute — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Stone ruins of a short-lived U.S. Army outpost (1866–1867) built to protect mail and emigrants on the Mojave Road, set above rare perennial Piute Creek on th…
- Fortynine Palms Oasis — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Fan-palm oasis in a rocky canyon on the northern edge of Joshua Tree National Park, reached by a ~3-mile round-trip trail over a barrel-cactus ridge from a d…
- Goffs — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Former AT&SF / National Old Trails Road and Route 66 railroad community at the eastern edge of Mojave National Preserve country. The restored 1914 Goffs Scho…
- Harper Lake — Wildlife · San Bernardino County, CA
Mojave dry-lake / alkali flat basin north of Barstow approaches that becomes a seasonal wetland birding destination after wet winters. A wildlife pin for sho…
- Hart — Ghost Town · San Bernardino County, CA
Short-lived 1907–1915 gold boomtown in the Castle Mountains / eastern Mojave, now inside or on the edge of Mojave National Preserve / Castle Mountains landsc…
- Highland Historic District — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Highland Historic District is a historic district in San Bernardino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, recognized for si…
- Hole-in-the-Wall — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Mojave National Preserve hub of sculptured volcanic rhyolite walls at 4,400 ft. Rings Loop climbs Banshee Canyon with metal rings set in rock; information ce…
- Kelso Depot — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Restored 1924 Union Pacific Spanish-Revival depot that anchors Mojave National Preserve’s main visitor center in the ghost railroad town of Kelso. Exhibits c…
- Kelso Dunes — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
One of the tallest dune fields in the Mojave, rising hundreds of feet above the desert floor inside Mojave National Preserve. The main trailhead on Kelso Dun…
- Ludlow — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Mojave Desert railroad and Route 66 settlement founded in 1882 as an Atlantic & Pacific water stop, later southern railhead for the Tonopah & Tidewater and n…
- Marl Spring — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Key water stop on the historic Mojave Road (Old Government Road) inside Mojave National Preserve — a sparse desert spring with concrete trough remains that s…
- Mitchell Caverns (Providence Mountains SRA) — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
California State Parks limestone cavern complex in the Providence Mountains, surrounded by Mojave National Preserve. Ranger-guided tours visit El Pakiva and …
- Mojave Narrows Regional Park — Wildlife · San Bernardino County, CA
County regional park where the Mojave River is forced to the surface through a bedrock constriction north of Victorville, creating perennial lakes, cottonwoo…
- Mopah Peaks — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Paired rhyolitic volcanic plugs (Mopah Range) rising above bajadas in BLM Turtle Mountains Wilderness. Signature skyline landmarks of the southern Mojave/Col…
- Nipton — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Tiny Ivanpah Valley railroad town founded 1905 on the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad (later Union Pacific), on the NE edge of Mojave National Pr…
- Oasis of Mara — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Native California fan palm oasis at the Joshua Tree National Park Oasis Visitor Center in Twentynine Palms—long used by Serrano and Chemehuevi peoples, later…
- Pisgah Crater — Geology · San Bernardino County, CA
Young basaltic cinder cone and lava field in the Mojave Trails National Monument corridor just south of I-40/Route 66. Flows, cinder slopes, and lava-tube fe…
- Rainbow Basin Natural Area — Geology · San Bernardino County, CA
BLM Area of Critical Environmental Concern and National Natural Landmark north of Barstow showcasing multicolored Miocene badlands, fossil beds of the Barsto…
- Rock Spring — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Reliable Mojave Road water stop inside Mojave National Preserve: Bert Smith’s 1929 Rock House, 1930s mill ruins, Camp Rock Spring army outpost site (1860s), …
- Smiley Park Historic District — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Smiley Park Historic District is a historic district in San Bernardino County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for…
- Teutonia Peak (Cima Dome) — Geology · San Bernardino County, CA
Three-mile round-trip trail from Cima Road to a rocky summit overlooking Cima Dome — one of the Mojave's best-expressed symmetrical granitic domes — and a va…
- Trona Pinnacles — Geology · San Bernardino County, CA
Hundreds of calcium-carbonate tufa spires rise from the dry bed of Searles Lake in the northern Mojave, formed when freshwater springs met alkaline lake wate…
- Vanderbilt CA — Ghost Town · San Bernardino County, CA
1890s New York Mountains gold camp founded after ore was struck near Vanderbilt Spring; briefly a multi-hundred-person tent-and-frame town served by the Neva…
- Wonderland of Rocks — Natural · San Bernardino County, CA
Labyrinth of monzogranite boulder piles and corridors in central Joshua Tree National Park—the park’s core climbing and cross-country hiking maze. Jointed pl…
- Zzyzx — Historic · San Bernardino County, CA
Desert health-spa resort built by radio evangelist Curtis Howe Springer from the 1940s on the shore of Soda Dry Lake, later reclaimed and operated as the Cal…