Deserts edit
Valleys edit
Desert Valleys include the:
Natural history edit
Parks, Nature Preserves, and Wilderness Areas edit
The deserts contain many national, state, county, municipal, and conservation foundation managed parks, recreation and scenic areas, wildlife preserves and nature reserves, and wilderness areas.
Parks edit
- Mojave National Preserve (National Park Service)
- Death Valley National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
- Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
- Mount San Jacinto State Park
- Red Rock Canyon State Park
- Mojave Narrows Park
Recreation areas edit
- Algodones Dunes - Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area
- Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
Unique features and landmarks edit
- Devils Punchbowl County Park, Littlerock, California
- Trona Pinnacles National Natural Landmark
- Mitchell Caverns National Preserve
- Mecca Hills National Preserve
- Saddleback Butte State Park. Lake Los Angeles, California
- Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
- Rainbow Basin National Natural Landmark, Barstow, California
- Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark, Amboy, California
- Cima volcanic field
Wildlife and nature preserves edit
History and Art Museums edit
- Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
- Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium, Palm Springs, California
- Kelso Depot, Restaurant and Employees Hotel
- Harvey House Railroad Depot Casa del Desierto, Barstow, California
- Western America Railroad Museum, Barstow, California
- El Garces Hotel, Needles, California
- Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, California
- Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Center, old Goffs schoolhouse and depot, Goffs, California
- California Route 66 Museum, Victorville, California
- Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park, Palmdale, California
- Eastern California Museum, Owens Valley, Independence, California
- Cabot's Pueblo Museum, Desert Hot Springs, California
Population centers edit
Native American Reservations edit
- Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Palm Springs, California
- Colorado River Indian Reservation
- Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians
- Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians
- Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians
- Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians
- Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians
- Fort Yuma Indian Reservation
- Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Lone Pine Community of the Lone Pine Reservation
- Timbisha Indian Village, Furnace Creek, California
Cities and Settlements edit
- Adelanto
- Amboy
- Apple Valley
- Baker
- Barstow
- Big Bear Lake
- Blythe
- Brawley
- Boron
- Borrego Springs
- Calexico
- California City
- Calipatria
- Cantil
- Cathedral City
- China Lake
- Coachella,
- Daggett
- Darwin
- Deep Springs
- Desert Center
- Desert Hot Springs
- El Centro
- Essex
- Fort Irwin
- Furnace Creek
- Heber
- Hinkley
- Holtville
- Homewood Canyon-Valley Wells
- Imperial, Indian Wells
- Indio
- Inyokern
- Johannesburg
- Joshua Tree
- Keeler
- Kelso
- La Quinta
- Lancaster
- Landers
- Lone Pine
- Mojave
- Montclair
- Morongo Valley
- Needles
- Newberry Springs
- Niland
- Ocotillo
- Olancha
- Palmdale
- Palm Desert
- Palm Springs
- Pearsonville,
- Rancho Mirage
- Randsburg
- Ridgecrest
- Rosamond
- Salton City
- Seeley
- Shoshone
- Tecopa
- Trona
- Twentynine Palms
- Victorville
- Westmorland
- Yermo
- Yucca Valley
Military reservations edit
Other sights edit
