Deserts Mojave Desert (High Desert) Sonoran Desert Colorado Desert (Low Desert) Yuha Desert See also: Lower Colorado River Valley Deserts Great Basin Desert
Valleys
Desert Valleys include the: Owens Valley Deep Springs Valley Eureka Valley Saline Valley Death Valley Panamint Valley Indian Wells Valley Fremont Valley Antelope Valley Victor Valley Lucerne Valley Lanfair Valley Coachella Valley Imperial Valley Lower Colorado River Valley Death Valley
Natural history Category: Flora of the California desert regions Category: Fauna of the Mojave Desert Category: Fauna of the Colorado Desert Category: Flora of the Sonoran Deserts Wildflower superbloom
Parks, Nature Preserves, and Wilderness Areas 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 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 Algodones Dunes - Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
Unique features and landmarks
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 Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Imperial National Wildlife Refuge Cibola National Wildlife Refuge Arthur B. Ripley Desert Woodland State Park
History and Art Museums 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 Native American Reservations 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
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 Edwards Air Force Base China Lake Naval Weapons Center Fort Irwin Military Reservation Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range
Other sights
Blythe Intaglios Bradshaw Trail Calico Ghost Town Coso Rock Art District petroglyphs Mojave Road Pioneertown U.S. Route 66 Trona Pinnacles Wildflower superbloom Zzyzx