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Saddleback Butte State Park is a
state park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural ...
in the
Antelope Valley The Antelope Valley is located in northern Los Angeles County, California, and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated between the Tehachapi, Sierra Pelona, and ...
of the western
Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert ( ; mov, Hayikwiir Mat'aar; es, Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. It is located primarily ...
, in Southern
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. It is located east of Lancaster, north of the community of
Lake Los Angeles Lake Los Angeles is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 12,328 at the 2010 census, up from 11,523 at the 2000 census. It is located east of Palmdale's Civic Center. According to the ...
, and south of
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in the unincorporated community of Hi Vista. The prominent feature and namesake of the park is Saddleback Butte, a
butte __NOTOC__ In geomorphology, a butte () is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word ''butte'' comes from a French word me ...
that is high. Saddleback Butte State Park includes over of land, and was created in 1960 to protect the area's
Joshua Tree ''Yucca brevifolia'' is a plant species belonging to the genus ''Yucca''. It is tree-like in habit, which is reflected in its common names: Joshua tree, yucca palm, tree yucca, and palm tree yucca. This monocotyledonous tree is native to the ar ...
(''Yucca brevifolia'') desert habitat.


See also

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Natural history of the Mojave Desert Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are p ...
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List of California state parks This is a list of parks, historic resources, reserves and recreation areas in the California State Parks system. List of parks See also *California State Beaches * List of California State Historic Parks * Parks in California *California Dep ...
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Protected areas of the Mojave Desert Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although t ...


Further reading

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External links


California State Parks: official Saddleback Butte State Park website

State parks of California Antelope Valley Buttes of California Geography of Palmdale, California Landforms of Los Angeles County, California Parks in Los Angeles County, California Protected areas of the Mojave Desert Protected areas established in 1960 {{LosAngelesCountyCA-geo-stub