The Salton Sea State Recreation Area offers hunting, fishing, swimming, and camping to visitors on the northeastern side of the

Salton Sea The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline body of water in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough that stretches to the Gulf o ...

Recreation

The Salton Sea State Recreation Area is run by the

California Department of Parks and Recreation The California Department of Parks and Recreation, more commonly known as California State Parks, manages the California state parks system. The system administers 279 separate park units on 1.4 million acres (570,000 hectares), with over 280 ...

. The Visitors Center is located in the north side of the park, at , on

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. The Corvina Beach Campground, near the center of the park, is located at . The Recreation Area was one of the 48 California state parks proposed for closure in January 2008 by California's Governor

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as part of a deficit reduction program, not enacted then.CBS5.com: List Of Calif. Parks To Close In Budget Proposal
The Recreation Area continues to be open to the public.

Flora and fauna

The Salton Sea Recreation Area is in the

Colorado Desert California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella and Imperial valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna. Geography and geology The Colorado De ...

section of the

Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona ...

, in the

Lower Colorado River Valley The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of C ...

geographic region. The Salton Sea is a stop on a major flyway for migrating birds. *

List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of , it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United Sta ...

References

External links

Official Salton Sea State Recreation Area website

Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge website
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Recreation

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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