BLM SPECIAL EDITION 1998 EXAMPLES OF AGENCY SIGNS SURFACE MANAGEMENT STATUS DESERT ACCESS GUIDE Ridgecrest BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT USDA FOREST SERVICE l:100,0()0-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 #4 Ridgecrest NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS Edited and published by the Bureau of Land Management National Applied Resource Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management California State Office. Planimetry partially revised by BLM from various source material. Revised information not field . he. i-rd Base map prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey. Compiled from USGS 1:24,000 and l:62,5O0-scale topographic maps dated 1949-1973, and from advance materials. Partially revised from aerial photographs taken 1973-1989 and other source data. Revised information not CALIFORNIA STATE field checked. Map edited 1993. VEHICULAR RECREATION AREA 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 hari'.verse Mercator. 25,000-foot grid licks based on them carefully. California coordinate system, zone 4 and 5. 1927 North American Datum. For more information contact the HIM, USDA Forest 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. NATIONAL GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM OF 1929 THIS MAP COMPLIES WITH NATIONAL MAP ACCURACY STANDARDS CONVERSION TABLE DECLINATION DIAGRAM ADJOINING MAPS Ml II RS FEET 1 1 2 3 [ MN 500 1640 GN 4 5 750 2461 1000 3281 6 7 8 The Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife 1250 4101 Service, USDA Forest Service, and National Park 1500 4921 0 18' I 24I9 MIL S 1 Three Rivers Service wilderness areas shown on this map were 1750 5741 5 MILS! 2000 6562 2 Darwin Hills derived from the legislative maps, such as the 2250 7382 California Desert Protection Act of 1994. For more 3 Death Valley June. information, contact the representative agency. / 4 Isabella Lake 5 Owlshead Mfns ii < onvert meters to feet UTM grid convergence lultiply by 3.2808 (GN) and 1993 magnetic 6 Tehachapi declination (MN) 7 Cuddeback Lake (i i (invert feet to meters al center of map mltiply by 0.3048 Diagram is approximate 8 Soda Mountains 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 Topographic Map Symbols Primary highway, hard surface Secondary highway, hard surface __,_____-___-_--__—____. Light duty, hard, or aggregate surface , , Streets, roads gradecFdrainecFnatural surface Rough bladed or two-tracked surface Trail (foot, pack, bicycle, or as labeled) £A£K. Route marker: Interstate; U.S.; State f 1 J? (] Railroad: standard gage; narrow gage _H 1— —i ,— Bridge; overpass; underpass s- j- p,i, ,„„l .„„. Tunnel: road; railroad a - t -+-}- - 4-t— Built up area; locality; elevation . • 1 ll' • ' 155 Airport; landing field; landing stfip H^^H ^ CALIFORNIA DESERT AREA ACCESS GUIDE National boundary _ — — ^—^— — — — INDEX TO 1:100,000-SCALE MAPS State boundary — 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 ! 1 ' HrH Cemetery; building . .Lerri , . ••al Windmill; water well; spring n Mine shaft; adit or cave; mine, quarry; gravel pit a >— X X Campground; picnic area; U.S. location monument. A •*• .*. Ruins; cliff dwelling L J^ini_] Distorted surface: strip mine, quarry; gravel pit #> :v$ttfc*SSS2 Contours: index; intermediate; supplementary .—X —s Bathymetric contours: index; intermediate s— Stream, lake: perennial; intermittent Rapids, large and small; falls, large and small _JtL Area to be submerged; marsh, swamp _ ,—— Land subject io controlled inundation Special area boundary . — . — BLM recreation area boundary , . „ National trail; back country, scenic byway 1 Little Lake 17 Owens Peak NOTE TO MAP USERS 2 Volcano Peak 18 Inyokern 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3 Airport Lake 19 Ridgecrest North The surface and minerals management status overprints are published as general 4 Mountain Springs Canyon 20 Lone Butte planning and management-tools. Some of the lands, surface and mineral rights, 5 Homewood Canyon 21 Westend may have been shown as patented lands due to the lack of information 6 Slate Range Crossing 22 Searles Lake available to BLM with respect to the nature of acquisition. Tracts less than 40 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 7 Manly Fall 23 Layfon Spring acres are usually omitted because of the map scale. The official land records in 8 Manly Peak 24 Wingate Pass the respective offices of the Bureau of Land Management or other responsible 9 Ninemile Canyon 25 Freeman Junction Federal agencies should be checked for up-to-date status on any specific tract 10 Pearsonville 26 Inyokern SE of land. Inadequacies in the BLM maps should be reported to the respective 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 11 White Hills 27 Ridgecrest South Bureau of Land Management offices from which the maps were obtained. 12 Burro Canyon 28 Spongier Hills West 13 Trona West 29 Spongier Hills East PUBLIC ACCESS 14 Trona East 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 30 Christmas Canyon 15 Copper Queen Canyon 31 Pilot Knob Valley West Roads crossing public lands may be travelled by the public unless closed by 16 Sourdough Spring 32 Pilot Knob Valley East signing or notice by the land management agency. Public lands intervened by private lands may not have poblic access. Permission is required from the private landowner io cross private land, unless access is provided by a Federal, State, or County road, or a BLM road with legal access. WELCOME TO THE CALIFORNIA DESERT WHO MANAGES THE DESERT El Centro Field Office Havasu National Wildlife Refuge 1661 S. 4th Street Bureau of Land Management (BLM): The P.O. Box 3009 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) trees and creosote to the lower Colorado Desert of native fan palms, smoke trees and ocotillo, the California Desert offers a multitude of recreational (760) 337-4400 (760) 326-3853 opportunities. Whether you have come to hike or backpack, tour by auto or four-wheel drive, enjoy your off-highway vehicle (OHVj, or ride horses or lower elevations to piny on and juniper During a 30-45 day period, more than was created by Congress in 1976 and CD Sacatar Trail Wilderness motor vehicle and mountain bike on Internet: www.ca.blm.gov/elcentro mountain bikes, please Tread Lightly! on the desert and Leave No Trace of your visit. woodlands on the higher peaks. 1,500 animals per year are vaccinated, includes a long-term land use plan for the existing routes to protect this fragile place. management of public lands. The mission of Imperial National Wildlife Refuge (See Mop A-J) This wilderness Streams flowing from springs within the wormed, tested for disease, branded, and the BLM is to sustain the health, diversity Needles Field Office P.O. Box 72217 encompasses the rugged eastern face of larger canyons create riparian areas of acclimated to people and domestically Ai easy 1/4 mile hiking trail leads Into 101 W. Spikes Road Yuma, AZ 85365 cottonwood and desert willow and grown hay prior to adoption. the heart of the Pinnacles for a close-up and productivity of the public lands for the the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Topography use and enjoyment of present and future Needles, CA 92363 (520) 783-3371 provide valuable water sources for view of these spires and the surrounding ranges from valley, canyons and alluvial generations. BLM offices are maintained in (760) 326-7000 wildlife, most notably a herd of desert From Ridgecrest, go 4 miles east on desert environment. Sturdy shoes are fans to steep hills that lead into granite Riverside, Barstow, El Centro, Needles, I "aim Internet: ivww.ca.blm.gov/needles Kofa National Wildlife Refuge bighorn sheep. This wilderness is dotted Ridgecrest BLVD (SRI 78) to Randsburg recommended. peaks and ridgetops reaching elevations of Springs and Ridgecrest. P.O.Box 6290 more than 7,800 feet. The Sacatar Trail, by historic mining activity. Wash Road. Turn right and the con;it Palm Springs/South Coast Field Office Yuma, AZ 85364 HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE an old wagon road and one of the few facility is located on the right. Visitors Primitive camping is permitted at the 690 W. Garnet Avenue National Park Service (NPS): The NPS (520) 783-7861 evidences of man in this area, provides Access is via State Highway 178 north of can drive around the corral to view the Trona Pinnacles and campers are P.O. Box 2000 Contact your local land management office manages Death Valley and Joshua Tree backcountry access into this wilderness. Trona and along Ballarat Road. Go horses and burros throughout the year. encouraged to use existing campsites and North Palm Springs, CA 92258 when planning your trip to the desert. They National Parks as well as the Mojave Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge south on Wingate Wash Road, then east.