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Discover nearly 100 hiking options, and learn about the natural and cultural histories of the Mojave National Preserve in Southern California.
The third largest desert park in the country, Mojave National Preserve protects 1.6 million acres of spectacular arid lands at the heart of the Mojave Desert. Part of the celebrated Great Basin province, it is a spellbinding region of mighty mountain ranges rising thousands of feet above vast inland basins. Famous for the majestic Kelso Dunes, the Devils Playground, and its extensive Joshua tree forests, the preserve also holds considerable natural and cultural wealth, including a wild range of landscapes, striking plant communities, and a rich mining past. Above all, it is a land of contrasts, alternatively forlorn and vibrant with life, stark and colorful, blanketed in snow in the winter, awash with wildflowers in the spring, and scorching hot in the summer. Being high-desert country and generally a little cooler than Death Valley, topographically less rugged, and far less visited, it offers a tremendous potential for comparatively easier hiking in complete solitude.
Michel Digonnet is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Other than his lifelong interest in photonics and fiber sensors, he has been exploring many of the deserts of North America and other continents, and he has written several books on desert national parks of the United States.
Foreword
About This Book
1. The Preserve at a Glance
2. Natural History
3. Cultural History
4. Safety Tips and Regulations
5. Kelso Basin
- Zzyzx
- Little Cowhole Mountain
- Cowhole Mountain
- Old Dad Mountain
- Cinder Cones and Lava Beds
- Kelso Dunes
- The Devils Playground
- Teutonia Peak
- The Death Valley Mine
6. Clark Mountain Range
- Alaska Hill
- The Colosseum Mine
- Clark Mountain
- The Copper World Mine and Pachalka Spring
- Valley Wells
7. Ivanpah Mountains
- Kokoweef
- Striped Mountain
- Copper Cove
- The Evening Star Mine
- New Trail Canyon
- Kessler Peak
8. New York Mountains
- Castle Peaks
- Vanderbilt
- Keystone Canyon
- Sagamore Canyon
- Carruthers Canyon
9. Mid Hills
- Butcher Knife Canyon
- Pinto Mountain
- Eagle Rocks
- Table Mountain
- Mid Hills to Hole-in-the-Wall Trail
- Hole-in-the-Wall
- Barber Peak
10. Providence Mountains
- Cornfield Spring
- The Vulcan Mine
- Quail Spring Basin
- The Bonanza King Mine
- Mitchell Caverns
- Fountain Peak
- Providence Peak
- The Big Horn Mine
- Hidden Hill
11. Granite Mountains
- Bull Canyon
- Devils Playground Canyon
- Willow Spring Basin
- Sheep Corral
- Budweiser Canyon
12. Lanfair Valley Area
- Rock Spring Canyon
- Rustler Canyon
- Woods Mountain
- Hackberry Mountain
- Hart Peak
- Ute Peak
- Fort Piute
- Piute Canyon
- The Mojave Road
Bibliography
Index of Destinations
Index