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Looking forward to getting back to normal in 2021

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

DesertUSA Staff

Open
Park entrances.
Roads and parking lots
Trails
Family campsites, aka individual sites. Campers should pay for their campsite as normal, following instructions at each campground.
Most bathroom facilities

Beware: Your GPS Could Kill You In this modern age, we rely on computers more and more. Google maps and other online maps give us directions. GPS systems guide us turn by turn to our destination. How can the maps that look so good, lead us to make foolish mistakes? Almost every week someone pulls in...

Did Pegleg's Gold Belong to Peralta? Intesting article by Robert Buck in 1966 June issue. The author thinks the gold Pegleg found may have been scattered over these hills in the Colorado Desert by some other means! Is it possible that this is what became of the cargo of the ill-fated Peralta expedit...

There shots were taken by Lara Hartley she wanted to share them with you. The comments below the pictures are Lara. ----- Posted by Jim http://www.desertusa.com/mb3-photos/001.jpg When we first came on this battling pair, it looked like the battle was all over. the tortoise on the left had flipped t...

Goffs, CA

Leonard Knight - the man who built Salvation Mountain in Niland Ca (Slabs area)
http://www.desertusa.com/mag09/jul09/le ... night.html

I had a Garrett, I don't know what they had. Not all metal detectors do well when looking for gold. The ones they sell today are much better then what we had back in 1996-99.

When visiting the Death Valley area be sure to stop in Ballarat and see Rock Novac he has lots of stories about the area and the men who lived there. A real interesting guy.