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Cima (Spanish for "Summit") is a small unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in the United States. It lies in a mountain pass on the divide between the Ivanpah Valley and the Mojave River basin, at an elevation of 4,175 feet (1,273 m).
The Kelso Depot, Restaurant and Employees Hotel or Kelso Depot, now also the Mojave National Preserve Visitors Center, is located in the Mojave Desert within the National Park Service Mojave National Preserve, on Kelso Cima Road at the junction of Kelbaker Road in Kelso, California, between Baker and Interstate 15 to the north and Interstate 40 to the south. [3]
The forest covering Cima Dome and the adjacent Shadow Valley is the largest and densest in the world. [4] In August 2020, a wildfire destroyed 1.3 million Joshua trees around Cima Dome. [5] The ghost town of Kelso is found in the preserve, with the defunct railroad depot serving as the visitor center.
Kelso is a ghost town and defunct railroad depot in the Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County, California, USA.It was named after railroad worker John H. Kelso, whose name was placed into a hat along with two other workers to decide the name of the town.
The Ivanpah Dry Lake, a popular place for land sailing, and the site of the proposed Ivanpah Valley Airport also lie in the valley. The headwaters of the valley [ clarification needed ] lie in the south and southeast in the north of the Mojave National Preserve ; the southeast of the valley is a water divide point at the south of the McCullough ...
Cima volcanic field is a volcanic field in San Bernardino County, California, close to the border with Nevada. [3] [4] The volcanic field covers a surface area of 600 km 2 (230 sq mi) within the Mojave National Preserve west of the Cima Dome and consists of about 40 volcanic cones with about 60 lava flows.
Death Valley and access roads to State Route 190 at Hells Gate. State Route 190 (SR 190) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that is split into two parts by the Sierra Nevada.
The Morongo Basin is an endorheic basin and valley region located in eastern San Bernardino County, in Southern California. The Morongo basin is part of the Inland Empire region, and is not considered to be the easternmost portion of the Greater Los Angeles Area, the 2nd largest metropolitan region in the United States. [citation needed]