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Methuselah Grove Road
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Overlanding Trails in California
Trails curated for overlanders in California.
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Cerro Gordo Road
Vertical ghost town adventure
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Calaveras Big Trees State Park North Grove
Walk among massive giant sequoias in the Sierra Nevada foothills where overlanders first glimpsed these ancient titans in…
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Point Sur Lighthouse
Perched on a volcanic rock 361 feet above crashing Pacific waves, this 1889 lighthouse guards one of California's…
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Lava Beds National Monument Skull Cave
Descend into California's largest lava tube cave where ice formations persist year-round in the cool volcanic underground.
California
Expert
Glass Elevators Trail
Extreme granite slabs in the Eastern Sierra
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Salvation Mountain
Leonard Knight's colorful folk art mountain of adobe, straw, and paint rises from the Sonoran Desert outside Slab…
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Cabazon Dinosaurs
Two massive concrete dinosaurs built in the 1970s stand guard over the Mojave Desert, famous from movies and…
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Badwater Basin Death Valley
The lowest point in North America at 282 feet below sea level, where salt polygons create an otherworldly…
California
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El Mirage Dry Lake OHV Area
High-speed Mojave Desert playground