The Carrizo Badlands are a landform of badlands that lie within Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in eastern San Diego County, and in the

Carrizo Impact Area The Carrizo Impact Area was used by the United States Navy as an air-to-ground bombing range during World War II and the Korean War. It is in the Anza-Borrego Desert in south central California and covers about . The majority of the range is in ...

in western Imperial County, in Southern California.

Geography

The badlands lie south of the Vallecito Mountains and Fish Creek Mountains, and north of the

Tierra Blanca Mountains The Tierra Blanca Mountains are located in San Diego County in southern California between the Vallecito Mountains and the In-Ko-Pah Mountains. The range is located to the west of the community of Canebrake and the Carrizo Badlands The Carrizo Bad ...

and

Coyote Mountains The Coyote Mountains are a small mountain range in San Diego and Imperial Counties in southern California.''El Cajun, California,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quanrangle, USGS, 1979 The Coyotes form a narrow ESE trending wide range with a length ...

. The Carrizo Badlands are bisected by the Carrizo Valley, created by the erosion of the badlands by Carrizo Creek, and ending in the Carrizo Wash, 3 miles east of the site of the old

Carrizo Creek Station Carrizo Creek Station, a former stage station of the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and Butterfield Overland Mail, located in Imperial County, California just east of the San Diego County line. It lies within the boundaries of the Anza-Borrego De ...

.USGS topographic maps; Carrizo Mountain, Sweeney Pass, Arroyo Tapiado Vallecito Creek is a major tributary of Carrizo Creek. ;Features One of the features within the Carrizo Badlands are the

Mud Caves The Mud Caves are a popular feature in Anza Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, California. The caves, located in the Carrizo Badlands, along the Arroyo Tapiado, were created by water flowing through a thick deposit of silt and are ...

in Arroyo Tapiado.

References

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Landforms of Imperial County, California Landforms of San Diego County, California {{SanDiegoCountyCA-geo-stub