The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail is a National Historic Trail in Nogales, AZ. This area is protected by the federal government for its historical significance.
If you ever get a chance to visit the desert in the Spring, I highly recommend it. It's a place to refresh your soul and relieve the stresses of daily living. Days are warm, nights are cool, the air is clear, and there is peace and solitude all around you. Every time I visit the desert I am amazed by all that's blooming and how the desert has a way of preserving items left behind by past visitors. Rusty cars, wagons, and adobe buildings should have been long gone, but they are still clinging... Read Full Story
If you ever get a chance to visit the desert in the Spring, I highly recommend it. It's a place to refresh your soul and relieve the stresses of daily living. Days are warm, nights are cool, the air is clear, and there is peace and solitude all around you. Every time I visit the desert I am amazed by all that's blooming and how the desert has a way of preserving items left behind by past visitors. Rusty cars, wagons, and adobe buildings should have been long gone, but they are still clinging... Read Full Story
UC Irvine is going to run a new 17-acre research site at Anza Borrego Desert State Park in eastern San Diego County where scientists will pay special attention to studying how climate change affects the vast region’s plant and animal life.
The parcel near the small town of Borrego Springs will become the newest piece of the University of California’s Natural Reserve System , which features research, teaching and public education sites at 36 spots around the state. UCI already manages two... Read Full Story
– Jim Wirth
Rosemary Rideout takes beautiful photographs. Rosemary recently posted a few photos of desert wildflowers in the OpenRoad.TV forum for the rest of us to enjoy, and I just love the photo of the entrance to Coyote Canyon in Anza Borrego Desert State Park that she took on March 12th.
Anzo Borrego Desert State Park was named after Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and the Spanish name borrego, or bighorn sheep, and is the largest state park in California. Visitors to... Read Full Story
Being from the Midwest I associate camping with forest, lakes, and prairie land. So when I went out to school in San Diego I was surprised to find that camping in the desert, specifically the Anza Borrego, is quite popular. It’s nothing revolutionary really- just something that never happened to cross my mind. I was [...] Read Full Story
A weekend long excursion brought us earlier this year from Los Angeles to the Anza-Borrego Desert, located, generally speaking, between San Diego and Palm Springs. We booked a room in Borrego Springs, a small desert community that is completely surrounded by the state park. We would drive around the region, take in the sights and take the well known Palm Canyon hike. The hike was one of the activities we were looking forward to the most and, as it would prove later, it was the highlight of... Read Full Story
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