Borrego Experience Blog

Article courtesy of Anza-Borrego Desert Paleontology Society

What to Do if you Find a Fossil
Please remember, private collecting of rocks or fossils is prohibited. (Public Resources code 4307 and 5097.5)

Visit the silent ruins of one man’s dream:

Welcome to one of the last best places on Earth.

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park encompasses some of the most diverse desert landscape in the world. 

Textbook definitions of "fossil" all converge on some variant of "any sign or indication of ancient life".  This covers a lot of territory, from bones and seashells, to chunks of wood and leaf impressions, to worm burrows and animal footprints.  Globs of feces count as fossils, if they

Tips to Safely Enjoy Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

California State Parks offers safety tips to outdoor enthusiasts visiting California’s largest state park, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Yes, indeed, there certainly is.  Many of the processes currently active in and around the Park are essentially unique to our area.  As with so much of geology, the basic driving mechanism is plate tectonics.  Locally we have "extremely oblique extension".

Borrego Springs High School Interpretation Course Launches Fall Semester

Press Release, June 20, 2019: The Borrego Experience Geotourism program, a partnership program led by the Borrego Village Association (BVA), is creating an interactive website featuring unique and authentic visitor experiences in Borrego Springs and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.  The

Thomas “Pegleg” Smith was a notorious Wild West fur trapper, gold prospector, horse thief, and slaver whose legacy is best remembered for the supposed gold jackpot that he claimed to have found and lost until the day he died.