EXPLORING the BIG MORONGO CANYON PRESERVE in Palm Springs, California
SUBSCRIBE: - The Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, Palm Springs, California. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. The Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is a 31,000 acres native plants habitat and wildlife preserve located in the Little San Bernardino Mountains of the Transverse Ranges, in the transition zone between the higher Mojave Desert and lower elevation Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert.
California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland and the Mojave Desert. The city of Los Angeles is the seat of the Hollywood entertainment industry. Hilly San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars.
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.
Pinkham Canyon Joshua Tree National Park
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To some, Joshua Tree National Park is only a desert. It is actually two deserts, the higher elevation Mojave and the lower elevation Colorado. The result is amazing desert flora, rock formations and those wacky namesake trees (actually a type of yucca). Joshua Tree’s beauty shines around the clock, with vibrant sunsets melting into nights filled with uncountable stars. Joshua Tree National Park encompasses almost 800,000 acres, larger than Rhode Island. The Park offers hiking, photography, horseback riding, rock climbing, and camping, to name a few activities. Most 4x4 off-roaders love the Park for its trails. Almost all of the trails have a Gold or Silver Mine associated with it. Pinkham Canyons attraction is the Snow Cloud Mine, watch for Waypoint 4 for the turnoff to the north. So enjoy and explore with safety.
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Cottonwood Spring Road (Riverside County, California) to Morongo Reservation (Morongo Reserva (...)
Watch in 720p full-screen to view map info. Visit for more info. - Waypoints: 0:22 Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway
0:57 Vista del Norte
0:58 Dillon Road
0:59 Indio Springs Drive
0:59 Harrison Street
1:02 Pueblo Street
1:05 Monroe Street
1:08 Avenue 42
1:08 Varner Road
1:09 I-10 West onramp
1:09 Jefferson Street
1:12 Fifties Way
1:12 Washington Street
1:14 Leopard Street
1:14 Badger Street
1:15 Union Pacific Railroad
1:16 Avenue 38
1:19 Cook Street
1:21 Portola Avenue
1:24 Harry Oliver Trail
1:25 East Ramon Road
1:36 Interstate Highway 10
1:37 North Gene Autry Trail
1:47 Diablo Road
1:47 20th Avenue
1:54 Whitewater Canyon Road
1:54 Whitewater Ctf
1:54 Whitewater Cutoff
1:55 Whitewater offramp
1:55 I-10 East onramp
1:56 Rest Area offramp
1:58 Haugen-Lehmann offramp
1:59 Pacific Crest Trail
1:59 Stubbe Canyon Creek
2:03 Morongo Reservation
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Cottonwood Spring Road (California) to Morongo Reservation (Riverside County, Morongo Reservation)
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Joshua Tree Old Dale Mining District Adventure
Exploring the old mining areas outside of Joshua Tree National Park, California in a Toyota Tacoma.
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Mountain Well And La Plata Nevada - Part 3 Conquering The Stillwater Mountains
The journey picks up with us leaving Mountain Well as our next destination would be the ghost town of La Plata. Our trek would be intense we would climb through many canyons searching for remnants of the town, mines or anything connected to silver boom which reached its height here from about 1862 till 1868 when Silver was discovered high up on the ledges of the Stillwater Range. Were going to take the road less taken journeying along the cliffs of the Stillwater Mountains and eventually right on over them till we see Dixie Valley below. Their is not allot of signs and their is quite a few back country roads so we did get turned around but eventually ended up downtown La Plata which today so very little remains. La Plata had hotels, saloons, stores, ten stamp mill, post office and even a courthouse. It also held the Churchill County seat for a few years. I will take you on an adventure to see a few stone walls and ruins which is really all that remains of this small silver mining camp. You will get to see more cattle along way, springs and some of the prettiest views in Nevada the silver state as we conquer the Stillwaters. The giant stone ruins which stand about two stories tall was said to be the courthouse others say it was the mill. Locals in the area say La Plata had either but according to our history books the foundation with the fireplace was a miner cabin and the ruins where the crossroads meet is the courthouse which was built after La Plata's original wood courthouse was simply to small. Sadly when the ore was exhausted and other booms occurred in the Stillwater Range the town was abandoned leaving nature to consume this narrow little canyon where only a few stone walls and fence post today remain. This is one hell of an adventure with some music and a gallery at the end of it. Please note I made one error in my video and mispronounced the Alpine Clan Mountains calling them Iron Clad and Alpine Clad my apologies wrote it down wrong in my notes it happens!
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Land Lot Property For Sale Mojave National Preserve Barstow Camp RV Hike
Rare property available in the Mojave National Preserve located halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas near Nipton, California. Lot is on flat ground in the Ivanpah Valley West of the New York Mountains. Exit highway 15 at Ivanpah Road and it is a short drive on paved roads. Last one quarter mile is dirt. No services on lot. Adjacent to a few mobile homes - most are vacant. Great place to camp, RV, or set up your off grid retreat and enjoy everything the park has to offer.
Desert Palm Spa Resort, Desert Hot Springs Hotels - California
#Desert_Palm Spa Resort 3 Stars #Desert_Hot_Springs, California Within US #Travel Directory Offering a spa and wellness centre and free Wi-Fi access, this resort is located in Desert Hot Springs, California Within US Travel Directory . Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is 20 minutes’ drive away from the property.
A TV and a refrigerator are featured in each Desert Palm Spa Resort room as well as air conditioning. Guests can enjoy a view from the room of either the pool or the mountains.
An outdoor pool, hot tub, and sauna are featured at Desert Palm. For convenience, a gift shop and vending machine are provided as well as free parking. A shared lounge and meeting facilities are also available.
Cabot's Pueblo Museum is 2 minutes’ drive from the resort, Desert Hot Springs city centre is 2.4 km away from the property, and Mission Lakes Country Club is 8.8 km away.
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Say's Phoebe flycatcher feeding young - Great Sand Dunes Colorado- Birding Visions
Say's Phoebe young teeter on a fence post as parent swoops in to feed them. Set against the Great Sand Dunes and Sangre de Cristo mountains of Colorado.
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Willow Hole in Joshua Tree National Park
In our opinion, the hike to Willow Hole, which is located in the Wonderland of Rocks region of Joshua Tree National Park, is one of the most rewarding hikes in the park. The trail passes through all of the scenery that Joshua Tree National Park is known for, not only the famous yucca that the park is named after, but all of those beautifully sculptured granite boulders and long desert vistas that has captivated visitors to this park for decades.
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FREE BLM Camping Near Joshua Tree National Park - Campsite Review
Want to visit Joshua Tree National Park and stay in a free BLM campsite?! I have the perfect spot - easy to get to with plenty of sites! Check out the blog post on our website for more details!
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While visiting Joshua Tree National Park for the first time we knew we wanted to stay inside the park but needed to get our bearings and began researching BLM land around Joshua Tree. We found 2 main places that we could camp - Joshua Tree North BLM and Joshua Tree South BLM. We decided to stay on the south side because it was warmer and according to some reviews the ground was more hard packed making it easier to get level. We stayed during peak season in Joshua Tree in February 2018. We were able to find a quiet private spot and it was wonderful. We highly recommend staying in this BLM spot!
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High Desert Motel Joshua Tree National Park in Joshua Tree CA
Reservations: . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. High Desert Motel Joshua Tree National Park 61310 Twenty Nine Palms Highway Joshua Tree CA 92252 Featuring a seasonal outdoor pool, this Joshua Tree motel is 3 blocks from the Joshua Tree National Park Visitors Center, and a 10-minute drive to the entrance of the park. All rooms have cable TV. Each room features a microwave and refrigerator and includes a private bathroom. Tea and coffee-making facilities are provided in all rooms at the High Desert Motel Joshua Tree National Park. A 24-hour front desk welcomes guests to Joshua Tree National Park High Desert Motel. Barbecue facilities and a laundromat are available on site. Palm Springs International Airport is 35 miles from High Desert Motel Joshua Tree National Park.
Ryan Ranch Trail, Joshua Tree National Park
Ryan Ranch Hike from Ryan campground in Joshua Tree. The trail takes you to the remains of farmhouse that once belonged to a family that worked the land around Joshua Tree. In addition to the house you can see some outbuildings and a water tank. Awesome short hike.
Zion National Park
Zion National Park is located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature of the 229-square-mile park is Zion Canyon, which is 15 miles long and up to half a mile deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River. The lowest elevation is 3,666 ft at Coalpits Wash and the highest elevation is 8,726 ft at Horse Ranch Mountain. Located at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions, the park's unique geography and variety of life zones allow for unusual plant and animal diversity. Numerous plant species as well as 289 species of birds, 75 mammals, and 32 reptiles inhabit the park's four life zones: desert, riparian, woodland, and coniferous forest. Zion National Park includes mountains, canyons, buttes, mesas, monoliths, rivers, slot canyons, and natural arches.
Human habitation of the area started about 8,000 years ago with small family groups of Native Americans; the semi-nomadic Basketmaker Anasazi stem from one of these groups. In turn, the Virgin Anasazi culture developed as the Basketmakers settled in permanent communities. A different group, the Parowan Fremont, lived in the area as well. Both groups moved away by 1300 and were replaced by the Parrusits and several other Southern Paiute subtribes. Mormons came into the area in 1858 and settled there in the early 1860s. In 1909 the President of the United States, William Howard Taft, named the area a National Monument to protect the canyon, under the name of Mukuntuweap National Monument. In 1918, however, the acting director of the newly created National Park Service changed the park's name to Zion, the name used by the Mormons. According to historian Hal Rothman: The name change played to a prevalent bias of the time. Many believed that Spanish and Indian names would deter visitors who, if they could not pronounce the name of a place, might not bother to visit it. The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience. The United States Congress established the monument as a National Park on November 19, 1919. The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the park in 1956.
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve | Wikipedia audio article
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
00:04:18 1 History
00:04:26 1.1 Native people
00:05:57 1.2 Exploration
00:08:17 1.3 Settlement
00:11:25 1.4 Preservation
00:12:13 2 Geology
00:17:02 3 Geography
00:20:54 4 Climate
00:23:25 5 Ecology
00:25:09 5.1 Flora
00:26:10 5.2 Fauna
00:27:53 5.3 Ecosystems
00:31:40 6 Features
00:32:48 7 Recreation
00:37:39 8 Designations
00:43:31 9 See also
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet (229 m) tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve located in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States. The park was originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument on March 17, 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. The original boundaries protected an area of 35,528 acres (55.5 sq mi; 143.8 km2). A boundary change and redesignation as a national park and preserve was authorized on November 22, 2000 and then established by an act of Congress on September 24, 2004. The park encompasses 107,342 acres (167.7 sq mi; 434.4 km2) while the preserve protects an additional 41,686 acres (65.1 sq mi; 168.7 km2) for a total of 149,028 acres (232.9 sq mi; 603.1 km2). The recreational visitor total was 486,935 in 2017, about 25% more than the 388,308 visitors of 2016.The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America. The dunes cover an area of about 30 sq mi (78 km2) and are estimated to contain over 5 billion cubic meters of sand. Sediments from the surrounding mountains filled the valley over geologic time periods. After lakes within the valley receded, exposed sand was blown by the predominant southwest winds toward the Sangre de Cristos, eventually forming the dunefield over an estimated tens of thousands of years. The four primary components of the Great Sand Dunes system are the mountain watershed, the dunefield, the sand sheet, and the sabkha. Ecosystems within the mountain watershed include alpine tundra, subalpine forests, montane woodlands, and riparian zones.Evidence of human habitation in the San Luis Valley dates back about 11,000 years. The first historic peoples to inhabit the area were the Southern Ute Tribe, while Apaches and Navajo also have cultural connections in the dunes area. In the late 17th century, Don Diego de Vargas—a Spanish governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México—became the first European on record to enter the San Luis Valley. Juan Bautista de Anza, Zebulon Pike, John C. Frémont, and John Gunnison all travelled through and explored parts of the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. The explorers were soon followed by settlers who ranched, farmed and mined in the valley starting in the late 19th century. The park was first established as a national monument in 1932 to protect it from gold mining and the potential of a concrete manufacturing business.Visitors must walk across the wide and shallow Medano Creek to reach the dunes in spring and summer months. The creek typically has a peak flow from late May to early June in most years. From July through April, the creek is usually no more than a few inches deep, if there is any water at all. Hiking is permitted throughout the dunes with the warning that the sand surface temperature may reach 150 °F (66 °C) in summer. Sandboarding and sandsledding are popular activities, both done on specially designed equipment which can be rented just outside the park entrance or in Alamosa. Visitors with street-legal four-wheel drive vehicles may continue past the end of the park's main road to Medano Pass on 22 miles (35 km) of unpaved road, crossing the stream bed of Medano Creek nine times and traversing 4 miles (6.4 km) of deep sand. Hunting is permitted in the preserve during the months of autumn, while hunting is prohibited within national park boundaries at all times. The preserve encompasses nearly all of the mountainou ...
Great Sand Dunes National Park | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Great Sand Dunes National Park
00:04:18 1 History
00:04:26 1.1 Native people
00:05:57 1.2 Exploration
00:08:17 1.3 Settlement
00:11:25 1.4 Preservation
00:12:13 2 Geology
00:17:02 3 Geography
00:20:54 4 Climate
00:23:25 5 Ecology
00:25:09 5.1 Flora
00:26:10 5.2 Fauna
00:27:53 5.3 Ecosystems
00:31:40 6 Features
00:32:48 7 Recreation
00:37:39 8 Designations
00:43:31 9 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet (229 m) tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve located in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States. The park was originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument on March 17, 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. The original boundaries protected an area of 35,528 acres (55.5 sq mi; 143.8 km2). A boundary change and redesignation as a national park and preserve was authorized on November 22, 2000 and then established by an act of Congress on September 24, 2004. The park encompasses 107,342 acres (167.7 sq mi; 434.4 km2) while the preserve protects an additional 41,686 acres (65.1 sq mi; 168.7 km2) for a total of 149,028 acres (232.9 sq mi; 603.1 km2). The recreational visitor total was 486,935 in 2017, about 25% more than the 388,308 visitors of 2016.The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America. The dunes cover an area of about 30 sq mi (78 km2) and are estimated to contain over 5 billion cubic meters of sand. Sediments from the surrounding mountains filled the valley over geologic time periods. After lakes within the valley receded, exposed sand was blown by the predominant southwest winds toward the Sangre de Cristos, eventually forming the dunefield over an estimated tens of thousands of years. The four primary components of the Great Sand Dunes system are the mountain watershed, the dunefield, the sand sheet, and the sabkha. Ecosystems within the mountain watershed include alpine tundra, subalpine forests, montane woodlands, and riparian zones.Evidence of human habitation in the San Luis Valley dates back about 11,000 years. The first historic peoples to inhabit the area were the Southern Ute Tribe, while Apaches and Navajo also have cultural connections in the dunes area. In the late 17th century, Don Diego de Vargas—a Spanish governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México—became the first European on record to enter the San Luis Valley. Juan Bautista de Anza, Zebulon Pike, John C. Frémont, and John Gunnison all travelled through and explored parts of the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. The explorers were soon followed by settlers who ranched, farmed and mined in the valley starting in the late 19th century. The park was first established as a national monument in 1932 to protect it from gold mining and the potential of a concrete manufacturing business.Visitors must walk across the wide and shallow Medano Creek to reach the dunes in spring and summer months. The creek typically has a peak flow from late May to early June in most years. From July through April, the creek is usually no more than a few inches deep, if there is any water at all. Hiking is permitted throughout the dunes with the warning that the sand surface temperature may reach 150 °F (66 °C) in summer. Sandboarding and sandsledding are popular activities, both done on specially designed equipment which can be rented just outside the park entrance or in Alamosa. Visitors with street-legal four-wheel drive vehicles may continue past the end of the park's main road to Medano Pass on 22 miles (35 km) of unpaved road, crossing the stream bed of Medano Creek nine times and traversing 4 miles (6.4 km) of deep sand. Hunting is permitted in the preserve during the months of autumn, while hunting is prohibited within national park boundaries at all times. The preserve encompasses nearly all of the mountainous areas north ...
Sunrise Over Black Rock Campground
The sunrise on October 16th over my campsite at Black Rock Campground in Joshua Tree National Park.