Whitewater Preserve
Channel: Veghead
Date: 2020-06-17

Whitewater Preserve.    Glorious Day - Full Moon in this Desert Oasis
I visit when I can...   The area has some of the clearest creek water around cooling you in 100 degree heat, mountain melt runoff!  Today, just hangin out listening to a local radio station cooling off!  Its just a few miles drive to multiple parking locations just off the interstate 10.  Not far from Palm Springs, 15-20 minutes.  You can see windmills in the distance and Mt San Jacinto.  
The area has many parking turn offs, all walk able to any portion of the creek. The preserve Parking is closed due to current events.  But you can walk up the creek areas and explore any trails. There is a Loop trail as well.  The Pacific Coast Trail(PCT) is nearby, Part of the that trail.  No shade and extremely hot 6 months of the year.  In the Coachella valley.   Thank you,  Be kind.

The Wildlands Conservancy’s acquisitions included 1,280 acres that had been subdivided into 40-acre parcels deep inside the San Gorgonio Wilderness. Roads to the subdivision have been removed and the integrity of the wilderness has been restored. The Conservancy also purchased the 40,032-acre BLM range allotment as a means to retire all cattle grazing in the Whitewater Watershed.

Over the past ten years, the Whitewater River has transformed from black water cattle wallows to crystal clear waters. Other restoration efforts involved removing 19 neglected houses and commercial structures at the old trout farm along with diseased non-native elm trees. These impacted lands have been restored with native sycamores, cottonwoods, flowering ash, alders, narrow-leaved willows, native shrubs and substantial wetlands. Legislation is pending to make the Whitewater River a National Wild and Scenic River.
https://www.wildlandsconservancy.org/preserve_whitewater.html
https://www.facebook.com/WhitewaterPreserve/

Loop Trail 
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/whitewater-canyon-view-loop-trail
A trailhead is accessible from Whitewater Canyon Road with parking available along the roadside. The trailhead will be on the left-hand side of the road, four miles from Interstate 10. This trail connects to the Pacific Crest Trail approximately 1.5 miles from the trailhead (elevation gain is approximately 675 feet).

Temp: 95 or greater
Water Temp:  Perfect degrees
Clothes:  I'm wearing Croft & Barrow pocketed shorts.
Beer:  1 Lagunitas IPA for the day.


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