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One of the lesser-known desert jewels of Southern California is located in East San Diego County, smack dab in the middle of the Colorado Desert Anza-Borrego.
While the Anza-Borrego Desert Region extends all the way to the Imperial Valley and even down to the Mexican border, its best-defined boundaries are within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Formerly known as Borego Palms Desert State Park (with the misspelling of the Spanish word borrego, meaning lamb) and simply Anza Desert State Park in the 1930s, it s not only California s first desert park, it s also our largest state park!
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No thanks to a dry winter, visitors to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park this spring won’t get to enjoy a wildflower “super bloom,” but an unexpected rainstorm on Wednesday afternoon has raised hopes for a late-season burst of color in early April.
Borrego Springs officials said last week they’re enjoying a moderately busy wildflower visitor season, despite COVID-19 rules that have continued to restrict restaurants to outdoor dining, canceled on-site tourist events and kept the doors locked at the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park visitors center. But that’s an improvement from last year, when the pandemic bloomed just a couple weeks into the peak season of March and April. Stay-at-home orders in spring 2020 temporarily closed the state park and all restaurants, hotels, non-essential businesses and even community parks.
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An off-road motorcyclist who went missing Sunday in Borrego Springs was found Tuesday morning in the neighboring community of Ocotillo Wells, a sheriff’s official said. The 55-year-old man got separated from a group he was riding with around 9:50 a.m. Sunday in an area near state Route 78 and Yaqui Pass Road, according to sheriff’s Det. Bradley Farr. The man had gone out to the desert in a friend’s vehicle and became separated as they were riding their motorcycles off road, Farr wrote in an email, adding that Rawlins had food and water with him. The man was riding a red and white 2015 Beta 500 RS endurance-style motorcycle, Farr said. The motorcycle is street legal.