Borrego Palm Canyon (Anza-Borrego)
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park · near Borrego Springs · California Desert
Camping
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Elevation
- 800
- Campsites
- ~120 sites
- Season
- Peak Oct–April
- Fee
- ~$35/night (dispersed free)
Permits and booking
- Reservation required
- Yes
- How to reserve
- Reserve on ReserveCalifornia (Oct–April; first-come/dispersed also allowed park-wide). In California's largest state park, near the palm-oasis trailhead and Borrego Springs. Showers, some hookups. FREE dispersed camping is allowed almost anywhere in the park. Cool-season.
What is here
- Setting
- desert
- Amenities
- Palm oasis trailhead · Showers & some hookups · Free dispersed camping park-wide · Spring wildflower superblooms
- Best for
- Desert camping + free dispersed options + wildflowers
- Features
- Gateway to a palm oasis · FREE dispersed camping park-wide · Spring superblooms · Desert bighorn sheep
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Camping detail
- Camp type
- developed · rv
- Intl tip
- Reserve developed sites on ReserveCalifornia (Oct–April) — OR camp FREE dispersed almost anywhere in the park (a rare freedom). Hike Borrego Palm Canyon to the oasis (bighorn sheep). Spring superblooms in wet years. Cool-season ONLY (summer is deadly). Bring lots of water. Combine with the slot canyons and Galleta Meadows sculptures.
The guide
Borrego Palm Canyon is the developed heart of Anza-Borrego, California's largest state park — a vast desert wilderness where a …
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Borrego Palm Canyon (Anza-Borrego) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.27, -116.415