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Deserts & Inland Discoveries
Choose Palm Springs, Joshua Tree or Borrego Springs as a separate desert base. Heat, limited services, park rules and long drives shape these trips; do not treat them as an automatic single-day circuit.
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Deserts & Inland Discoveries, a little closer.
Choose Palm Springs, Joshua Tree or Borrego Springs as a separate desert base. Heat, limited services, park rules and long drives shape these trips; do not treat them as an automatic single-day circuit.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
Three places to begin.
Choose a local stop, then find food and a place to stay.
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Your next good stop.
Find a business. Put yours on the map.
Browse published places around Deserts & Inland Discoveries. Business details are supplied by their owners.
Photo credits & visitor sources
Real California photographs, resized and converted to WebP. Displayed crops may vary; each image retains its listed license.
- Mount San Jacinto From Downtown Palm Springs - panoramio.jpg — Johnwayne Stroud, CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; website may crop for layout.
- Joshua Tree National Park (California, USA) -- 2012 -- 5663.jpg — Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized and converted to WebP; website may crop for layout.
- Landscape panorama of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.jpg — John D. from Pasadena, USA, CC BY 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; website may crop for layout.
Visitor information: Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, Borrego Springs. Check current access, hours, weather and booking terms. Photos may show nearby attractions rather than the town center.
County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundaries. Town markers are approximate centers, not entrances or routes. WTDO regions are editorial discovery areas, not official tourism boundaries.