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I’ve dedicated the better half of the column this month to the hiking in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, stemming from a camping trip I took over the first weekend in February. Late winter is the best ...

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This is the Trail Report, a weekly email newsletter from reporter Maura Fox about hikes and San Diego County’s outdoors. Sign ...

Anza-Borrego State Park and the Anza-Borrego Foundation have challenged hikers to two special hike series, dubbed ‘5 hikes for 50 years,’ to celebrate the Foundation’s 50th anniversary, according to a ...

It was still dark when I rose from my sleeping bag at 5 a.m. to prepare for a morning climb up Whale Peak in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. I knew the 11-mile hike to the 5,300-foot peak would be ...

Don’t be scared of the unforgiving appearance of desert terrain; the sandy dunes and cactus make desert hikes the perfect winter escape. For avid hikers, the desert is the perfect destination to lace ...

At an elevation of 3400 feet, Culp Valley not only provides relief from scorching desert temperatures in the months when it is too hot to hike at lower elevations in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, ...

It was another year of a "super bloom" in California, as the rain-drenched desert put on a spectacle of color this spring. The carpets of wildflowers may be gone already but there's still plenty of ...

A series of 80 hikes around the region led by Canyoneers from the San Diego Natural History Museum begins Sunday, the Balboa Park institution announced Tuesday. Most are on weekends — with a few ...

I may have missed the spring’s epic wildflower bloom that sent thousands traipsing through this sprawling park to ogle desert lilies and sand verbena, but Anza-Borrego still had a few wonders up its ...