Hiking Southern California's Desert Parks: Featuring Anza-Borrego, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, and the...

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Lew Hinchman

Hiking Southern California's Desert Parks

Featuring Anza-Borrego, Joshua Tree, Death Valley, and the Mojave Preserve

Lew Hinchman

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Globe Pequot Press
14 October 2025

Walking, hiking, trekking; Caravan & camp-site guides

Series: Regional Hiking

The region below Death Valley National Park in southern California's desert region contains a variety of public lands and unique hiking opportunities. East of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Palm Springs and south of Las Vegas lies a desert region home to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Joshua Tree National Park, the Mojave National Preserve, and the Mojave Trails National Monument, just established in 2016. These parks and preserves offer a wealth of hiking opportunities, allowing hikers to enjoy the rare flora and fauna and incredible natural formations that are unique to these lands - from canyons and panoramic views of distant mountain ranges to springs and desert oases. This guide will cover 50 of the most scenic and worthwhile hikes across each of these parks, preserves, and monuments. Also included will be hidden gems in the area like hikes in the Mecca Hills Wilderness between Anza-Borrego and Joshua Tree, as well as the Indian Canyons Nature Preserve just south of Palm Springs.

By: Lew Hinchman
Imprint: Globe Pequot Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
ISBN: 9781493087945
ISBN 10: 1493087940
Series: Regional Hiking
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Lewis Hinchman was awarded an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University in 1968. After three semesters as a Fulbright scholar in Germany, he went on to do graduate work in the Government Department at Cornell University, from which he received his PhD in 1979. While he has published three academic books and has contributed to multiple other scholarly works, he has previously published Hiking Tropical Australia: Queensland and Northern New South Wales with Grass Tree Press in 1999 and has been hiking the American West and Southwest since 1975. He has lived in Moab, Utah for the past 15 years, frequently traveling to the borderlands to hike. He hopes to put his extensive experience with and knowledge of these hiking areas into print with this guidebook.