Major Attractions:
Imperial Valley Museums
Festivals and Special Events:
Holtville Carrot Festival [Late Jan]
A highly entertaining event with music, entertainment and a number of prestigious cookery contests.
Anza Borrego Desert
Spring Desert Wildflowers
The desert colorfully comes to life, especially after a wet winter.
US Navy Blue Angeles - Winter Camp
El Centro Naval Air Facility
The U.S. Navy's Precision Flight Demonstration was first organized
in 1946. Each year it performs nearly 70 air shows at 33 locations in
the U.S. and Canada, entertaining over 17 million spectators.
Imperial Valley Fair & Expo
100 acre facility with over 50,000 square feet of exhibit area in five buildings, grandstand and race track is available year-round for your function.
Used for trade shows, fairs, lifestyle expos, spectator events, and racing.
Home to the Imperial Valley Fair - a 10-day festival held in early March.
Nightlife and Entertainment:
Fort Quechan Gaming Resort - Winterhaven CA
New Attraction : Opened 2009
Newly opened gaming resort on the old Fort Yuma Indian Reservation features big name entertainment, restaurants,
lounges and banquet facilities. Largest convention center event space in the desert.
Palmer Performing Arts Center
Brawley High School - North County Coalition for the Arts
Sports and Recreation:
Other Points of Interest:
Fort Quechan Gaming Resort - Winterhaven CA
Newly opened gaming resort on the old Fort Yuma Indian Reservation features big name live entertainment, restaurants, lounges and banquet facilities.
Tour Borrego Springs
Borrego Springs is certainly one of the most scenic desert resort
areas of California. The desert valleys are bordered by 9,000 foot mountain
peaks. Some have said that Borrego Springs is what Palm Springs was 50 years ago
- peaceful, quiet, relaxing. There are no stoplights in Borrego.
Tour Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
600,000 acre Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the
largest state park in the contiguous United States and voted the
#1 state park in California by National Geographic. This area was
first traversed by Spanish explorer Juan Batiste de Anza in 1774.
Visitors can traverse canyons full of desert palms, ancient pictographs,
majestic cactus and early spring wildflowers.
Salton Sea State Recreation Area
Located along the northeastern shore of the Salton Sea
since 1955 and offering an abundance of outdoor recreation opportunities.
Salton Sea boasts great fishing - game includes croaker, corvina
and tilapia.
Heber Dunes State Vehicle Recr Area - Heber CA
343 acres area located south of El Centro. It is primarily used for off-road recreation,
however, camping, picnicking, and baseball are also popular activities in the park.
Ocotillo Wells State Vehicle Recr Area - East Borrego
42,000 acres of desert terrain, from below sea level to 400 foot elevations. It is a motorcycle, four-wheel drive, all-terrain vehicle, and dune buggy use area.
The wash-and-ridge terrain includes a butte with dunes and a sand bowl, a blow-sand dune, springs and a camp on a former homestead site.
Cibola National Wildlife Refuge
Cibola NWR is located in the floodplain of the lower Colorado River and surrounded by a fringe of desert ridges and washes.
The refuge encompasses the historic Colorado River channel and several important backwater areas that are home to many wildlife species.
Because of the river’s life sustaining water, wildlife here survive in an environment that reaches 120 degrees in the summer and receives an average of only 2 inches of rain per year.
Imperial National Wildlife Refuge
Imperial National Wildlife Refuge protects wildlife habitat along 30 miles of the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California,
including the last unchannelized section before the river enters Mexico.
The river and its associated backwater lakes and wetlands are a green oasis, contrasting with the surrounding desert mountains.
Mostly Theatre Company
Mostly Theatre Company was founded as the Imperial Valley Players in 1955 to bring the magic of live theater to the community.
MTC provides a forum for those who wish to be involved with theater from all over the county including
El Centro's Old Post Office Pavilion.
Musuem of World History in Granite - Felicity CA
The 416 Panel History of Humanity is being engraved on 8 granite monuments.
This project was launch in 1973 and as of 2007 this project is about 20% complete.
Tour Cleveland National Forest
Southern most of protected forest lands in California includes 430,000
acres of San Diego, Orange and Riverside divided into three distinct
areas. Comprises of conifer woodlands and chaparral.
Palomar Mountain State Park
Palomar Mountain State Park features spectacular views of the Pacific, camping,
picnicking, hiking, and fishing (trout) in Doane Pond. Coniferous forests cover
much of the 1,862 acres, in contrast to the dry lowlands surrounding the mountain.
This is one of the few Southern California areas with a Sierra Nevada-like atmosphere.
Carrizo Badlands
Fossil Beds, Desert Trails, Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves, Open Camping area.
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