The Deserts

California's Deserts

The high desert in the north and the low desert in the south - are lands of extremes: heat and cold, bright light and deep shadows. You'll find soft sand dunes and deeply eroded cliffs, golden poppies and spiny cacti, creeping tortoises and soaring eagles - viewed against jagged mountains. With the area's silent and austere beauty studded with glittering yet relaxing resort cities, the deserts offer the ideal spot for re-energizing your senses. Come and give yourself over to this perfect antidote to a too-busy life.

This very large region starts 1/2 way across the bottom of California along the Mexican border extending to the Arizona border at Winterhaven going north along the Colorado River to Needles and continuing up the Nevada border to north of Death Valley and then west to Mojave and back south skirting outside of Big Bear and continuing south to include Palm Springs and the Salton Sea.