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California - The Deserts (Chapter)
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5th Edition
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April 2009
43 pp
This is the Deserts chapter from Lonely Planet's California guidebook.
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More than 25% of California counts as desert; hidden fan-palm oases, rare wildlife and towering mountain summits are all protected by a grab-bag of state parks that deserve at least a week, if not a lifetime, of wandering. This chapter wanders with you.
- maps
- poke around miners' ghost towns and hark to Old West pioneer disaster stories in Death Valley National Park
- transport
- accommodation
- restaurants
- go boulder hopping around the 'Wonderland of Rocks' at Joshua Tree National Park
Coverage includes: History, Sights, Sights & Activities, Palm Springs & Coachella Valley & around, Route 66, Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley National Park & around, Upper Mojave Desert, Joshua Tree National Park, Salton Sea, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Julian, Barstow, Needles To Barstow, Barstow to Los Angeles, Tecopa, Shoshone, Beatty, Nevada, Lancaster-Palmdale, Mojave, Boron, Ridgecrest.
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