Episode #126: From Show Caves to Palm Canyons: Treasures of Southern California’s Desert State Park System

You Can't Eat the Sunshine

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Join us this month as we get an education from two devoted parks interpreters: LuAnn Thompson shares her favorite things about the landscape and creatures found in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and Andy Fitzpatrick introduces us to the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, including the Route 66 roadside attraction turned State Parks resource, the astonishing Mitchell Caverns.

UPCOMING EVENTS

LAVA Forensic Science Seminar: The Grim Sleeper

URLS FOR GUESTS AND CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Providence Mountains State Recreation Area

Recommended Reading:

Anza Borrego Desert Region: Your Complete Guide to the State Park and Adjacent Areas of the Western Colorado Desert by Lowell & Diana Lindsay

Keepers of the Caves: A True Account of Twenty Years of Modern Pioneering by Jack Mitchell

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