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Desert Spring is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Fremont Valley, south of Red Rock Canyon State Park. [1] It was located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast of Cantil. [1] The place, with natural springs, was important as a source of freshwater to the Native Americans, explorers, prospectors, and others in the Mojave Desert. [1]
The Dos Palmas Spring is now part of the Dos Palmas Preserve a 14,000-acre preserve created to protect important biological resources. The oasis with its hundreds of desert fan palms and pools fed by artesian springs and seepage from the nearby Coachella Canal form a wetland that offers shelter from the hot, dry Colorado Desert to a variety of both threatened or endangered and more common ...
Magnesia Spring Ecological Reserve is a California Department of Fish and Wildlife–protected area of the inland desert region of California, United States. The canyon, one of the natural attractions of the greater Palm Springs area of the Coachella Valley, [2] is known for its "colorful layered rock walls and palm tree oases."
Desert Hot Springs is a geothermal geographic area in Riverside County, California with several hot springs. [1] [2] Since 1941, the California Department of Conservation has recorded approximately 200 geothermal wells (with temperatures below 212 °F) that have been drilled in this geographic area; approximately 50 of which are used for commercial spas and pools.
Palm Spring is a spring in Mesquite Oasis, a desert oasis amidst a mesquite thicket and a few palms, close to Carrizo Creek, within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, California. Palm Spring, first used by the local Native Americans and those traveling to and from the Colorado River , was subsequently used by Spanish and later ...
The springs are in the rain shadowed desert foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains on the Deep Creek fork of the Mojave River.They are in a large bouldered riparian zone, surrounded by a rich habitat ecotone of the xeric shrublands—desert chaparral, montane chaparral and piñon-juniper woodlands, and conifer forest plant communities.
Newberry Springs is an unincorporated community in the western Mojave Desert of Southern California, located at the foot of the Newberry Mountains in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Newberry Spring is a spring that in the 19th century supplied water to the local Santa Fe Railway and originally was a camping place. [ 1 ]
Halloran Springs is a set of springs in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, United States. [2] It is located on Interstate 15 between Baker, California and Las Vegas, Nevada approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Baker. The ZIP code is 92309 and the community is inside area codes 442 and 760.