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Wildflower season is coming into its own in Southern California, and the nooks and crannies of desert and chaparral plant communities are beginning to show their flowery finery. Whitewater River Canyon and Whitewater Preserve in Riverside County are not as well known as their more popular cousins, the Anza Borrego Desert or Death Valley, but [...]
More stories and photo articles by Lara Hartley. Boron, A Photo Essay http://www.desertusa.com/mag08/jun08/boron-lara-hartley.html Goldstone Deep Space Communication Complex – Cassini Call Home http://www.desertusa.com/mag08/aug08/goldstone-deep-space.html Desert Wonder: Tufa towers near Ridgecrest make for a fun local day trip http://www.desertusa.com/mag08/dec08/tufa.html St. Andrews Abbey: A World of Wonder Art creation goes hand in hand with the appreciation of the [...]
Inscription Canyon is a major anthropological attraction in the High Desert Stand in the quiet of Inscription Canyon and let your imagination take wing. Close your eyes and you can almost see the Indians who used to inhabit the area, waiting for visions fueled by fasting and sacred drugs — their prayers wafting skyward on [...]
Take a trip down Route 66 for good eats and good times You can sit at a counter, a table or in a red vinyl booth. Most likely the waitress will call you “Hon” as she hands you the menu — unless you are at the Village Cafe in Barstow. Owner Henry Wong does not [...]
When the Earp boys, Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan, cloaked in long black coats and accompanied by gambler “Doc” Holiday, made the famous walk to meet Ike Clanton and his gang in Tombstone, Ariz., Wyatt walked into an exalted place in the history of the American West. He still captures our imaginations, 81 years after his [...]
I wonder how they found the perfect Joshua tree — the rock band U2. Did they just drive around near Lee Flats outside Death Valley until they picked just the right plant? Or did they have advance scouts? Joshua Tree was U2′s first No. 1 album and the 1987 Grammy Award-winner for “Album of the [...]
I tagged along with Team DUSA the other day, looking for Barry Storm’s “Jade Mine”. Storm was a sometime writer for Desert Magazine and sometime hunter of lost mines. He was also the author of a book entitled “Thunder God’s Gold”. It was based upon the search for a lost mine in the Superstition mountains [...]
It was the little engine that could — and did — for 66 years. And 38 years after it was rebuilt in Santa Fe Railway’s Cleburne, Texas, shop, BNSF 1460 officially retired in December 2008. Rail fans affectionately call the little locomotive the “Beep,” and it has found a new home at the Western America [...]
Welcome to my first Blog on DesertUSA. I have been a writing and photography contributor for a long while, but this is the first real column I have written for DesertUSA. I am a person with itchy feet, a need to go and see what is on the other side of the mountain. Every dirt [...]
The heyday of passenger trains is long gone. But the lovely lady of Kelso was meticulously restored as the National Park’s visitor center for the Mojave National Preserve. The former depot reopened in November 2005. James Woolsey, former chief of resource interpretation and outreach for NPS said the station is “a magical place – like [...]
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