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The California Desert 1661 S BLM SPECIAL EDITION 2000 EXAMPLES OF AGENCY SIGNS SURFACE MANAGEMENT STATUS DESERT ACCESS GUIDE Soda Mountains BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT USDA FOREST SERVICE 1:100,000-Scale topographic map showing: Highways, roads and other manmade structures • Water features • Contours and elevations in meters • Recreation sites • Coverage of former desert access guide #8 Irwin NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR I BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS Edited and published by the Bureau of Land Management National Applied Resource Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado in canpi-nilian with the Bureau of Land Management California State Office. Planimetry partially revised by BLM from various source material. Revised information not field checked. Base map prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey. Compiled from USGS 1:24,000 and i:62,500-scale topographic maps dated 1948-1956, and from advance materials. Partially revised from aerial photographs taken CALIFORNIA STATE 1976 1989 and other source data. Revised information not VEHICULAR RECREATION AREA field checked. Map edited 1993. Help protect your public lands by observing posted Projection and 10,000-meter grid, zone 11: Universal OHV designations. Watch for OHV signs and read them carefully. Transverse Mercator. 25,000-foot grid ticks based on California coordinate system, zone 5. 1927 North For more information contact the BLM, USDA Forest American Datum. Service, National Park Service, California State Park, or California State Motorized Vechicle Recreation Area Land lines are omitted in areas of extensive tract surveys. Office (see back panel for address and phone There may be private inholdings within the boundaries of numbers). the National or State reservations shown on this map. NATIONAI GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM OF 1929 THIS MAP COMPLIES WITH NATIONAL MAP ACCURACY STANDARDS CONVERSION TABLE DECLINATION DIAGRAM ADJOINING MAPS ML I IKS FEET 1 2 3 300 984 500 1640 GN 1 4 5 /on 2297 800 2625 6 7 8 The Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife 900 2953 Service, USDA Forest Service, and National Park 1000 3281 iL Service wilderness areas shown on this map were 1100 3609 0"17' (949 MILS 1 Ridgecrest 5 MILS / / derived from the legislative maps, such as the 1200 3937 2 Owlshead Mtns. California Desert Protection Act of 1994. For more 1300 4265 3 Mesquite Lake 1500 4921 information, contact the representative agency. 4 Cuddeback Lake 5 Ivanpah To convoi r meters to feet UTM grid convergence multiply by 3.2808 (GN) and 1993 magnetic 6 Victorville declination (MN) 7 Newberry Springs To convert feet to meters al center of map multiply Ly 0.3048 Diagram is approximate 8 Am boy FOR SALE BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CALIFORNIA STATE OFFICE SACRAMENTO, CA 95825 AND U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DENVER, CO 80225 ISBN D-b07-HM7D6-X ||llllllllll|llllllllll| 20% 9 TsodOTwATOSs1 TOTAL RECOVERED FIBER Topographic Map Symbols Primary highway, hard surface ................ Secondary highway, hard surface .............. Light duty, hard, or aggregate surface Streets, roads gradeaVdrainedmatural surface ...... Rough bladed or two-tracked surface Trail (foot, pack, bicycle, or as labeled)........... Route marker; Interstate; U.S.; State. ............ Railroad: standard gage; narrow gage .......... Bridge; overpass; underpass Tunnel: road; railroad Built up area; locality; elevation Airport; landing field; landing strip CALIFORNIA DESERT AREA ACCESS GUIDE National boundary . INDEX TO 1.100,000-SCALE MAPS State boundary , . 1 County boundary RED OUTLINE INDICATES PREVIOUS DESERT ACCESS GUIDES National or State reservation boundary Land grant boundary U.S. public lands survey; range, township; section. Range, township; section line, protracted ......... Power transmission line; pipeline Dam; dam with lock H>4 Cemetery; building . Cem Windmill; wafer well; spring Mine shaft; adit or cave; mine, quarry; gravel pit . X X Campground; picnic area; U.S. location monument. Ruins; cliff dwelling . Ruins Distorted surface: strip mine, quarry; gravel pit . .»> :v.:-f..i.,.-.V".1'.. Contours: index; intermediate; supplementary Bathymetric contours: index; intermediate Stream, lake: perennial; intermittent Rapids, large and small; falls, large and small. Area to be submerged; marsh, swamp Land subject to controlled inundation Special area boundary SPECIAL SYMBOL BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT POINTS OF INTEREST RECREATIONAL SYMBOL BLM recreation area boundary INDEX TO 1:24,000-SCALE MAPS LEGEND LAND STATUS LEGEND [SEE BACKSIDE FOR INFORMATION) LEGEND National trail; back country, scenic byway Public Lands (Administered by i vvesi o\ iNeison LOKB / vviuiams wen Locked Gate —• Bureau of Land Management) Indian Lands or Reservations L orate Lanas Department of Energy Campground All Terrain Vehicle Trail... NOTE TO MAP USERS 2 Nelson Lake '8 Paradise Range 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Oregon & California Lands [O&C) Military Reservations and Withdrawals 3 West of Drinkwater Lake 9 Langford Well Route / Trail Marker r Wildlife Viewing Area .. Dirt Bike Trail The surface and minerals management status overprints are published as general 4 Drinkwater Lake 20 East of Langford Well Coos Bay Wagon Road (CBWR) Corps of Engineers L Bureau of Reclamation .... Radio and Air Facilities planning and management fools. Some of the lands, surface and mineral rights, 5 Red Pass Lake NW 21 Bitter Spring Bureau of Land Management . NJW Picnic Area Four Wheel Drive Trail .... may have been shown as patented lands due to the lack of information 6 Red Pass Lake NE 22 West Cronise Lake National Wildlife Refuges (Administered r Power Withdrawals and available to BLM with respect to the nature of acquisition. Tracts less than 40 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 7 Silurian Valley 23 West of Soda Lake Forest Service IFS264I National Forest by Fish & Wildlife Service) L Classifications Miscellaneous Hiking Drinking Water acres are usually omitted because of the map scale. The official land records in 8 North of Baker 24 Soda Lake North the respective offices of the Bureau of Land Management or other responsible 9 Gofdstone 25 Lane Mountain County. [HH Bankhead-Jones Land Use Lands r Federal Agency Protective State, County, City; Wildlife, Park Scenic Area Food Service Federal agencies should be checked for up-to-date status on any specific tract 10 East of Goldstone 26 Coyote Lake National Grasslands (L.U. Lands) U Withdrawals and Outdoor Recreation Areas of land. Inadequacies in the BLM maps should be reported to the respective 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Scenic Geology Gasoline Station Bureau of Land Management offices from which the maps were obtained. 11 Fort Irwin 27 Alvord Mountain West Acquired Lands 12 Tiefort Mountains 28 Alvord Mountain East Interpretive Sign Telephone 13 West of Red Pass Lake 29 Dunn National Parks and Monuments Patented Lands L Public Water Reserves (By Administering Agency) PUBLIC ACCESS 25 26 27 28 29 30' 31 32 14 Red Pass Lake 10 Cave Mountain Historic Site Lodging 15 West of Baker 31 Crucero Hill Roads crossing public lands may be travelled by the public unless closed by 16 Baker 32 Soda Lake South signing or notice by the land management agency. Public lands intervened by private lands may not have public access. Permission is required from the private landowner to cross private land, unless access is provided by a Federal, State, or County road, or a BLM road with legal access. WHO MANAGES THE DESERT El Centro Field Office Havasu National Wildlife Refuge WELCOME TO THE CALIFORNIA DESERT 1661 S. 4th Street P.O. Box 3009 Bureau of Land Management (BLM): The Within its 25-million-acre expanse—an area the size of Ohio—lies a land of extreme contrasts. From the relatively high Mojave Desert of Joshua El Centro, CA 92243 Needles, CA 92363 California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) (760) 337-4400 (760) 326-3853 trees and creosote to the lower Colorado Desert of native fan palms, smoke trees and ocotillo, the California Desert offers a multitude of recreational was created by Congress in 1976 and River comes to the surface. The Mojave Internet: www.ca.blm.gov/elcentro opportunities. Whether you have come to hike or backpack, tour by auto or four-wheel drive, enjoy your off-highway vehicle (OIIV), or ride horses or CD Mojave Road highway opportunities, the open area is Access to this wilderness is from includes a long-term land use plan for the River originates from its headwaters in Imperial National Wildlife Refuge mountain bikes, please Tread Lightly! on the desert and Leave No Trace of your visit. also home to the historic Mojave Road, California Highway 127, just north of management of public lands. The mission of the San Bernardino Mountains of Needles Field Office P.O. Box 72217 (See map, H-6) Traveling across the desert which bisects it. This historic trail Baker. the BLM is to sustain the health, diversity California. From there, the river flows 101 W. Spikes Road Yuma, AZ 85365 can be daunting for some people today, continues into the neighboring Mojave and productivity of the public lands for the north and east for a hundred miles, Needles, CA 92363 (520) 783-3371 even in our modern air-conditioned National Preserve, one of the largest units use and enjoyment of present and future away from the Pacific, eventually (ZJ Kelso Dunes Wilderness (760) 326-7000 automobiles. So just imagine running on in the National Park system. generations. BLM offices are maintained in disappearing from view in the Devil's Internet: www.ca. blm.gov/needles foot across this land, which is something Soda Moijintains (See map, J-6) Within this 129,580-acre Riverside, Barstow, El Centro, Needles, Palm Kofa National Wildlife Refuge Playground, within the Mojave National Native Americans did over a thousand Access to Rasor OHV Recreation Area is wilderness lie two sweeping valleys: the Springs and Ridgecrest. P.O.Box 6290 years ago. Venturing from the Colorado Preserve managed by the National Park from Interstate-15, immediately to the rolling Bristol Mountains and the Kelso Palm Springs/South Coast Field Office Yuma, AZ 85364 River to the Pacific Coast in order to trade Service.
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