Chuckwalla Mountains
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The Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in the transition zone between the Colorado Desert—Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert, climatically and vegetationally, in Riverside County of southern
Chuckwalla Mountains from Corn Springs
Corn Springs Rock Art, Chuckwalla Mountains
Bradshaw Trail
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The Bradshaw Trail is a historic overland stage route and ancient Indian trail in the Colorado Desert of Southern California. In 1862, William Bradshaw established the first road across Riverside Coun
Chuckwalla Mountains
…running in a generally northwest-southeast direction. It is bordered to the north by Interstate 10 and the town of Desert Center, and to the south by the Bradshaw Trail and the Chocolate Mountains Aerial Gunnery Range. The highest point is Black Butte, elevation 4,504 ft (1,373 m). The Chuckwalla Range is divided from…
Mother and child on Bradshaw Trail, 2019
Friar Garcés documented the Chuckwalla Springs (a stop on the trail) which he named Pools of Tesquien in 1776
Lieutenant José María Estudillo documented the first non-native expedition on the trail.
an artesian well at the village of Paltuksnish (Martinez), a stop on the trail where Romero and his men met a Cahuilla leader the Mexicans called Juamay on December 30, 1823.