|
En Español
Beauty Mountain Potential Wilderness
 Managing agency: Bureau of Land Management
Size: Approximately 14,270 acres
Location: Several miles to the east of the Palomar Mountain range, south of the Cahuilla Indian Reservation, and west of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Access: The California Riding and Hiking Trail can be accessed as you head north on Highway 79 and then drive east on Chihuahua Valley Road. Or head northeast on Highway 371, take the backcountry road of Elder Creek, and drive south from Durazno Valley.
Description: Beauty Mountain potential wilderness encompasses a series of steep mountains, dominated by Iron Spring Mountain and Beauty Mountain itself. This untrammeled wildland provides incomparable opportunities for solitude and unconfined recreation.
 With elevations ranging from 3,300 to 5,548 feet, chaparral dominates the areas, divided evenly between the California chaparral and coastal sage scrub communities. On a warm spring day, the visitor is greeted with the heady scents of sage, manzanita, and California lilac. Hill after misty hill rise in the distance, presenting an unbroken view of wild country. Because of the rocky outcroppings and dense vegetation, the visitor is quickly out of sight and sound of other seekers of the wilderness experience.
For more information, please contact:
Geoffrey Smith
Phone: (858) 566-5676
Email: gsmith@thecomputersmith.com
|
Just three miles off of Interstate 80, 
