Tamarisk Grove Campground (California)

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Highway S-3 / Yaqui Pass Road
Anza Borreo Desert State Park, California 92004
760 767-5311
33.13806, -116.37444

Tamarisk Grove is a tree-shaded campground with 27 campsites for tents, trailers and RVs. There’s also a bike-in campsite. Campsites 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 25 also have small cabins available for rent. Each campsite has a table, fire ring, grill and shade ramada. All roads and parking spurs are paved.

Tamarisk Grove campground also has a picnic area, campfire center, drinking water, flush toilets and hot showers. There are no group campsites here, but you can find some primitive camp spots can be found at nearby Yaqui Well and Yaqui Pass.

Borrego Palm Canyon campground is another option and located just outside of Borrego Springs. It has 120 campsites for tents, trailers and RVs.

There are a few nice trails that lead out from Tamarisk Grove campground including one to Yaqui Well, a spring famous for it diversity of birdlife and the Cactus Loop Trail which takes you through a beautiful stand of cactus.  Winter visitors are often treated to a rare look at the desert bighorn sheep that winter on the ridges north of Tamarisk Grove.

Anza-Borrego State Park is located on the eastern side of San Diego County and is the largest state park in California. The park includes hundreds of miles of dirt roads to explore, several miles of hiking trails, many historic/cultural sites, 12 wilderness areas and an abundance of wildlife and wildflowers to see (in the spring).

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Directions:

From Borrego Springs, drive 5 miles southwest on Borrego Springs Road, then turn right on Highway S3 (Yaqui Pass Road) and continue 6.5 miles south until you reach the campground (on left hand side).