Jan 24 Salton City to Berrego Springs

Jan 24

We drove from Salton City to Borrego Springs. Spectacular mountain views through the bad lands. Borrego Springs is small town surrounded by the mountains. Just a tourist town, they had small craft and local food market going on the lawn of the town center. We walked around some of the small craft shops and then proceeded towards Mountain Springs campsite about an hour a way. This was not one of Rose’s favorite drives. We had to climb up over the n mountains and down the other side most of the time at 25 or 30 mile an hour speed limits. The road was built in between the mountains peaks and was constantly twisting and turning . Fortunately on this road there were guard rails along the drop offs. Some of the drop offs were a couple of hundred feet down.

About 10 miles before our campsite we passed Aqua Caliente which is a group of hot springs. H0pefully we will come back and enjoy them before we leave the area,

We arrived at the campsite around 1:30. Beautiful desert mountain spot with mountains on 3 sides and the flat areas only have cactus for vegetation. Mountain Spring park,  just south of Marker 47 on Highway S2 at N2.8661 w116.20978.

View from windshield on way to Borrega Springs

This is a view of the bad lands along the highway

Badlands on the left and Salton sea in the background

A map of the Anza-Borrego State park 

Entering to town of Borrego Springs 

one of the shops on the mail street

Highwau S2 from Borrego Springs to Campsite.

 

Lots of twists and turns at 20  or  30 mile an hour speed limits