Salton Sea State Recreation Area on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The Salton Sea State Recreation Area offers hunting, fishing, swimming, and camping to visitors on the northeastern side of the
CBS5.com: List Of Calif. Parks To Close In Budget Proposal
The Recreation Area continues to be open to the public.
Official Salton Sea State Recreation Area website
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge website
*
Protected areas of the Colorado Desert Parks in Riverside County, California Lower Colorado River Valley Coachella Valley California State Recreation Areas Salton Sea {{ImperialCountyCA-geo-stub
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 Gul ...
.
Recreation
The Salton Sea State Recreation Area is run by theCalifornia 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 28 ...
.
The Visitors Center is located in the north side of the park, at , on California State Route 111. 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 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, film producer, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. ''Time'' ...
as part of a deficit reduction program, not enacted then.The Recreation Area continues to be open to the public.
Flora and fauna
The Salton Sea Recreation Area is in theColorado 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 D ...
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 Ariz ...
, in the Lower Colorado River Valley 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 ...
See also
* Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge *Salton Sink
The Salton Sink is the low point of an endorheic basin, a closed drainage system with no outflows to other bodies of water, in the Colorado Desert sub-region of the Sonoran Desert. The sink falls within the larger Salton Trough and separates the ...
References
External links
Official Salton Sea State Recreation Area website
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge website
*
Protected areas of the Colorado Desert Parks in Riverside County, California Lower Colorado River Valley Coachella Valley California State Recreation Areas Salton Sea {{ImperialCountyCA-geo-stub