San Diego County, California
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- Agua Caliente County Park — Hot Spring · San Diego County, CA
San Diego County desert park on the Great Southern Overland Stage Route of 1849 at the western edge of Anza-Borrego, built around geothermally heated mineral…
- Arroyo Tapiado — Natural · San Diego County, CA
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park wash system known for fragile mud caves, slot-like passages, and badlands eroded into soft sediments of the Carrizo Badlands e…
- Borrego Palm Canyon — Natural · San Diego County, CA
Signature oasis canyon of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: a maintained trail climbs from the Borrego Palm Canyon Campground into a rocky gorge with Californi…
- Calcite Mine Trail — Geology · San Diego County, CA
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park truck trail and hike to a WWII-era optical-grade calcite diggings area, with slot-canyon narrows, fault-shattered sedimentary …
- Canyon Sin Nombre — Geology · San Diego County, CA
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park wash-and-canyon route off County Route S2 famous among desert travelers as a compact “geologist’s tour”: layered mudstone and …
- Culp Valley — Natural · San Diego County, CA
High desert valley and campground corridor on Montezuma Grade (S-22) in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, roughly 3,400 ft above the Borrego Valley floor. Piny…
- Elephant Trees Area — Natural · San Diego County, CA
Named Anza-Borrego Desert State Park unit protecting a northern outlier stand of elephant trees (Bursera microphylla) reached by a short nature trail off Spl…
- Fonts Point — Geology · San Diego County, CA
Premier overlook of the Borrego Badlands in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park—layered badland ridges and the Salton Sink from a short walk beyond a sandy spur r…
- Ghost Mountain (Yaquitepec) — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park trailhead and short steep hike to the adobe ruins of Yaquitepec—Marshal and Tanya South’s 1930s–1940s experiment in primitive …
- Kuchamaa — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Kuuchamaa (also Tecate Peak) is a sacred Kumeyaay mountain on the San Diego–Baja California border, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 199…
- Mountain Palm Springs — Natural · San Diego County, CA
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park oasis complex with native California fan palm groves in Surprise, Palm Bowl, and Southwest Grove canyons — short desert hikes …
- Narrows Earth Trail — Geology · San Diego County, CA
Short paved-access interpretive loop in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park along Highway 78 that explains some of the park’s oldest exposed rock, faulting, and d…
- Old Town San Diego Historic District — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Old Town San Diego Historic District is a historic district in San Diego County, CA, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, recognized f…
- Split Mountain (Anza-Borrego) — Geology · San Diego County, CA
Dramatic anticline and gorge where Fish Creek Wash cuts the Vallecito Mountains at the SE corner of Anza-Borrego. Classic Colorado Desert structure-geology s…
- The Slot (Anza-Borrego) — Natural · San Diego County, CA
Short, sinuous mudstone slot canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — a walk-through narrows carved in soft Borrego Badlands sediments east of Borrego Spri…
- Truckhaven Rocks — Geology · San Diego County, CA
Colorful sandstone outcrops of some of Anza-Borrego’s oldest sedimentary rock, rising above the Arroyo Salado bajada north of S-22 (Borrego-Salton Seaway) ne…
- Vallecito Stage Station — Historic · San Diego County, CA
Restored Butterfield Overland Mail and Southern Emigrant Trail stage station at a Colorado Desert oasis in Vallecito Valley, Anza-Borrego country. The site l…
- Warner Hot Springs — Hot Spring · San Diego County, CA
Long-used mineral hot spring on the Cupeño / Kumeyaay landscape of the northern San Diego backcountry, at the Warner Springs community along SR-79. GNIS list…