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 Carrizo Badlands: Mud Caves & Canyon Sin Nombre
Carrizo Badlands- The Mud Caves are found along the walls of Arroyo Tapiado canyon. One of the most extensive mud cave systems in the world, they contain approximately 22 known caves and 9 slot canyons. Some mud caves extend over 1000 feet and feature ceilings as high as 80 feet. Caves have been reported up to 35 feet wide, and others so narrow, you have to squeeze through openings. Multi-level caves with skylights have been found, where erosion has created an opening, or sinkhole, in the ceiling of the cave. |
 Anza Borrego - Borrego Badlands
This spectacular area, with its arid rocky geography, sunken mesas and corrugated hills of dry mud, is called the Badlands of Anza Borrego. See the Pumpkin Patch, 17 Palms, 5 Palms, and Arroyo Salado Wash. Conglomerates, sandstones, claystones and mudstones, compressed and hardened, chronicle a variety of landscapes, fossil life forms and climates that no longer exist at Anza-Borrego. |
 Fonts Point
Join the crew of DesertUSA and take a trip to Fonts Point in the Borrego Badlands. Font's Point may be the best place in North America to view sediments of the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs. |
 Are You Riding Your ATV Over Gold?
One of the most famous prospectors of the time, trapper/gold seeker “Pegleg Smith” traveled through the Anza-Borrego Desert region. It is rumored that he discovered black gold somewhere in the east part of the Park. Where Pegleg Smith found his gold has never been discovered, or if it has, the location has never been published or verified. |
 Ocotillo Wells SVRA
Located off of California SR 78, Ocotillo Wells has quickly become a preferred destination for ATVs, dirt bikes and dune buggies. Join DesertUSA as we take a look at what draws so many people to this location - almost 2 million people in 2007! Points of interested included in this video include the Gas Domes' mud pots and the Pumpkin Patch's mysterious round rocks. |
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 Anza Borrego - The Ghost Mountain Movie (Movie Preview)
An unmarked grave in Julian, CA and a shattered adobe house on top of Ghost Mountain in the Anza Borrego Desert are all that is left of Marshal South and his family's utopian experiment in the wilderness. Originally told in the pages of Desert Magazine by the Souths themselves, the story is now illuminated in a documentary DVD. Enjoy the film preview's great shots of the desert!
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 Anza Borrego - Seasons in the Desert (Movie Preview)
It is a place of great extremes, yet filled with living things and secret corners. The Emmy Award winning film is an intimate portrait of the desert; a celebration of wilderness and of life. This preview shows some wonderful footage of Anza Borrego Desert State Park and some of its inhabitants. |
 Borrego Springs, CA - Free Standing Art Structures
History is unfolding in Borrego Springs with the placement of the Gomphotherium free standing art structures. These creatures lived in the area about 3 million years ago. Dennis Avery, landowner of Galleta Meadows Estates has added 'free standing art', original steel welded sculptures created by Perris Jurassic Park's Ricardo Breceda. |
 The Desert Bighorn Sheep Video #1Bighorn Sheep - The Desert Bighorn Sheep formerly ranged in the Rocky Mountains from southern Canada to Colorado, but are now reduced to areas where small bands are protected by inaccessible habitat or by refuges. Join us as we take a look at these reclusive creatures.
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| Bighorn Sheep Video #2- Watch a Desert Bighorn grazing on grasses on a rocky hillside, then gamboling up the hill. Great shots of this beautiful animal against the skies of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. |
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Quicktime VRs - Quicktime VR images let you view a 360 degree scene through the linking images. You can look up and down and zoom in as if you were standing right there! In order to view the Quicktime VRs you will need to have Apple's QuickTime installed on your system (For PC or Mac - free download.)
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 Wildflowers in Anza-Borrego 2-3-2001 - QTVR
A sweeping view from from Henderson Canyon Road near the Peg Leg monument in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park on February 3, 2001. Do you remember the 2001 wildflowers? |
 Anza Borrego - Font's Point - QTVR
The view from Font's Point to the southeast, overlooks the Borrego Badlands. Mexico is off in the distance. Turning right (west) reveals Inspiration Point Wash and the town of Borrego Springs in the distance, then the access road to Font's Point. To the north, the Santa Rosa Mountains appear in the distance.
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 Ocotillo Wells - The Pumpkin Patch QTVR
Join the crew of DesertUSA and take a trip to Fonts Point in the Borrego Badlands. Font's Point may be the best place in North America to view sediments of the Pliocene and Pleistocene Epochs.
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