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Anza-Borrego Foundation

760-767-0446

www.TheABF.org

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Wildflower Hotline: 760-767-4684

www.parks.ca.gov/anzaborrego

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Metal Sculptures

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Park Wildflower Update: 4/8/19

1. Visitor Center area: Nice patches of desert dandelion, phacelia, shrubs, and cacti in Visitor Center

garden; along paved trail to campground; west of our parking lot; and in Hellhole Canyon.

2. Borrego Palm Canyon : Alternate Trail (starts a short way up the paved path to the campfire center)

and Main Trail both have flowers. Notice the Indigo Bush, new this week.

3. Coyote Canyon : At the end of the pavement, DiGiorgio Rd, walk east on the dirt road for sunflowers.

The dirt road into Lower Coyote Canyon is good to Desert Gardens, where ocotillos are blooming. Only

high clearance 4WD vehicles should venture beyond this point; road is rough.

4. Henderson Canyon Road: Sunflowers are still blooming here, surrounded by grass. On the west end,

look among the metal sculptures.

5. Highway 78 Corridor: Narrows Earth Trail, Mine Wash (2WD vehicles just as far as the vault toilet)

and Plum Canyon (2WD vehicles should stay right at fork) all have poppies, shrubs, and other flowers.

6. Tamarisk Grove: Cactus Loop and Yaqui Well Trails (across S-3 from Tamarisk Grove) have poppies,

cacti, and “belly flowers.” Explore also (on foot) the wash behind Tamarisk Grove campground.

7. Blair Valley: Enter near mile marker 23 on Highway S-2 for large primitive camping area, good

flowers, and short hikes to the Morteros and to the Marshal South Homesite. Vault toilet. Only 4WD

vehicles should attempt to go beyond Morteros trailhead to the Pictographs trailhead. Continue on S-2

for roadside cacti, phacelia, agave, yucca all the way to Vallecito County Park.

Dirt trail through campground to Borrego Palm Canyon

Trailhead 0.8 mile

Paved path from Visitor Center to Campground 0.7

mile starts near VC bathrooms

Walk from Visitor Center to Borrego Palm

Canyon Trailhead. Total 1.5 miles one way.

BPC Trail to Oasis. 1.5 miles one way.

Total Visitor Center/BPC Trail round trip. 6 miles

Total walk time VC to Oasis and back is 4+ hours.

Visitor Center

Parking

Drive to Trailhead.

First left from V.C.

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Borrego Palm Canyon Trail Access