California deserts are a study in contrasts: soft sand dunes and deeply eroded cliffs, golden poppies and spiny cacti, creeping tortoises and soaring eagles, and snowcapped mountains. The Deserts' silent and austere beauty, studded with glittering yet relaxing resort cities, offers the ideal spot for re-energizing your senses.

Some Desert Photos
	A lush lakeland in prehistoric times, Death Valley is features some of the most desolate landscapes on the planet.
	An empty bench seems to epitomize the loneliness of the Death Valley depths.
	A sand dune mountain.
	Desert flowers bring seemingly incongruous delicacy to the desert mosaic.
	More flowers decorate the desert floor.
	Desert mountains
	A barren desert wash.
	Joshua Trees seem to dance in the late afternoon sunlight.
	A study in contrast, the Sierra Nevada mountains border the California desert's western edge.
	A lonely desert road stretches into the distance.
	Palm trees add little life to a small desert boulevard.
	Lounging by the swimming pool is a favorite pastime for Palm Springs resort goers.
	A typically desolate desert townscape.
	Still waters of Salton Sea make barely a ripple.
	Palm trees are ubiquitous in the southern desert.
	A small fraction of more than 40,000 windmills that fill the San Gorgonio pass.
	Another view of Salton Sea's expansive shoreline.