75 and sunny.
We checked out a few places around the park. The view driving to Palm Springs. Palm springs with a stunted palm tree and the water is being taken over by shrubbery and bull rushes. A palm shaded shelter stage stop was built here at Palm Springsn1858. It was one of 53 stage stops on the Butterfield Overland Mail route. The stage coaches ran until 1861 when the civil war broke out.
Mountain Palm springs has a couple of primitive campgrounds and as you go up the canyon there is one spring after another with palm trees. Palm Springs, the bees at the spring were hanging on the bulrushes to get a drink of water, cholla.
Another of the springs. These cactus are growing straight out of the rocks.
Water flowing down the arroyo from one of the palm springs. We drove up Indian Gorge to this spring in a field of huge rocks.
The view looking down Indian Gorge as we drove back out. We had a nice soak in the hot springs when we returned to camp. 75 and sunny. We went to Vallecito Stage Station County park up the road. They have this restored stage station and cell phone service. We have no cell service where we are camped.
These are some of the morteros-metates- on the Morteros trail where the Indians ground up mesquite seeds and other grains. The larger ones are quite deep and full of water. Then we hiked on the Pictograph trail to these pictographs.
More pictographs. Nice rock on the ridge.
The pictograph trail continued into a canyon that funneled into a short slot that ended at this 80 foot drop off. John having lunch in the shade.
Yuccas, mistletoe berries. buckwheat flower, and two birds in a bush. The desert here is very lush.
Bird on a cholla. The dirt road was a little rough in places.
Agave forest. Late light on the Laguna Mountains across the valley.
Sunset over the campground.
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