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Camping at Trona Pinnacles
Hidden in an area seemingly in the middle of nowhere between the southern tip of the Sierras and Death Valley National Park lie the Trona Pinnacles. Trona Pinnacles are giant spire-like geological formations known as tufas. It is amazing how they tower about the desert floor and it is even more amazing that the area was completely underwater at one time!
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Civic Center Skate Park in Palm Desert
The Civic Center Skate Park in Palm Desert is a great place to enjoy sunshine and smooth cement. Most of Palm Desert has pretty good sidewalks and smooth paved streets which are great for longboarding, but sometimes you just need to shred a skate park!
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Palm Springs Skate Park
The Palm Springs Skate Park is a cool skate park. The skate park is very large with a bunch of ramps and boxes as well as three large bowls. The main bowl has a large quarter pipe on one side, ramps and coping for dropping in.
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Exploring The Wind Caves
Right outside of Anza Borrego State Park in the Yuha Desert, we did a 5 mile hike to some incredible wind caves! You can see the first of the wind caves up close when you get to the top. These caves were formed from years and years of wind erosion. The wind has hollowed out caves in the sides of the surrounding mountains.
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Sidewinder Skate Park
The skate park in El Centro is named Sidewinder Skate Park. This was a great skate park with very smooth cement. Half of the skate park has a street layout and the other half of the park is dedicated to the large bowl. On the street section of the park there are a number of ramps, rails, stairs, and boxes.
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Mud Caves!
Our favorite and most exciting hike in Anza Borrego State Park was exploring the Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves! We parked near the information sign seen above and immediately started checking out all the branching side canyons off of the main wash. In these canyons we came upon lots of unique mud formations such as tunnels, arches, and varying sized caves. Some of the branched canyons got very narrow. And some of the arches were low enough to make you duck under.
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Longboarding Yaqui Pass
The largest hill that I skated in Anza Borrego State Park was on the S-3 near Yaqui Pass Campground. The S-3 road is also called Yaqui Pass Road. This road probably has the largest hill in the park and from the pass you can head north downhill or south downhill.
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Exploring Quartz Vein Wash
Quartz Vein Wash is a fun turn out in Anza Borrego to explore. There are some steep and narrow canyon sections with fun obstacles. And we also had a cool encounter with wildlife!
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Longboarding Anza Borrego
Anza Borrego has a lot of open desert roads as well as some good hills for longboarding. This particular longboarding run is a mellow downhill run just outside of the Arroyo Salado Primitive Campground.
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Exploring the Anza Borrego Calcite Mine
Calcite Mine is a cool hike in Anza Borrego! To get to the mine there are numerous side canyons full of narrows, obstacles and opportunities for rock wall free climbing!
