ipernity: Desert / Ghost Town Trek #11a by Jeff Nicholson

Red Rock State Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, April 2006

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17 Apr 2006

Roxanne and I set out to cover the second half of the epic four day 1,600 mile desert trip I took with Andrew in 2000. We spent a whole week on just these places south of Death Valley, plus some additions. Here's part one. First, took I5 south to SR 138 east to the Antelope Valley California Poppy reserve.

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These are much bigger than the wild poppies you see by the side of the road in Nor Cal.

Then north on SR 14 to Red Rock State Park. There is also a Red Rock Canyon State Park in Nevada, west of Vegas. This one is south of Ridgecrest, CA.

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Set up camp and explored the sandy cliffs.

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Camp the next morning. You may recognize some of these features from Lost in Space (1965). The scenes with the giant cyclops threatening the Robinsons were shot here.