Anza-Borrego Desert: The Potrero loop

Rating *****
length 8.6 mile - 3 hour, 40 minutes (The loop). Easy/Moderate.
Elevation 1560 - 1930 feet
Access All cars park along the S2, close to mile 34, just outside the county park.

This is a loop in a couple of washes of "The Potrero".
Head south on an old barred dirt road.
This part of the hike is strenuous in the soft horse / hiking trail.

Follow this GPS hike up a small faint wash.
At "Fence 2" follow the fence left (east), up to the main wash and follow it back (north).
The return wash is rocky at times and is filled with Desert Willows, maybe the biggest in and close to the park.

Along the way you will encounter a couple of fences, so far as we can tell, it's all public land.

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Our plant listTom Chester plant list

Missing the film above or to watch full screen, use this link.Begin (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
(Apr/18/2016) 🌎Salt heliotrope, Heliotropium curassavicum (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Salt heliotrope, Heliotropium curassavicum (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Salt heliotrope, Heliotropium curassavicum (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Soft sand (Apr/18/2016) 🌎 (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
(Apr/18/2016) 🌎Ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens splendens (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Ocotillo, Fouquieria splendens splendens (Apr/18/2016) 🌎 (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
(Apr/18/2016) 🌎White rhatany, Krameria bicolor (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
(Apr/18/2016) 🌎 (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert sand verbena, Abronia villosa villosa (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Gander's cholla, Cylindropuntia ganderi (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert goldenhead, Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus sphaerocephalus (Apr/18/2016) 🌎 (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Slender wreathplant, Stephanomeria exigua exigua (Apr/18/2016) 🌎 (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Teddybear cholla, Cylindropuntia bigelovii (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Climbing milkweed, Funastrum cynanchoides hartwegii (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis arcuata (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis arcuata (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis arcuata (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Schott's calico, Loeseliastrum schottii (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Brittlebush, Encelia farinosa (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Desert chicory, Rafinesquia neomexicana (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
(Apr/18/2016) 🌎Desert trumpet, Eriogonum inflatum (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert trumpet, Eriogonum inflatum (Apr/18/2016) 🌎 (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis arcuata (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis arcuata (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis arcuata (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Lepus californicus (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Thurber's buckwheat, Eriogonum thurberi (Apr/18/2016) 🌎Thurber's buckwheat, Eriogonum thurberi (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
(Apr/18/2016) 🌎 (Apr/18/2016) 🌎
Desert woolly star, Eriastrum eremicum eremicum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Salt heliotrope, Heliotropium curassavicum oculatum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Salt heliotrope, Heliotropium curassavicum oculatum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Fremont's desert thorn, Lycium fremontii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Honey mesquite, Prosopis glandulosa torreyana (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Desert lily, Hesperocallis undulata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Desert lily, Hesperocallis undulata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Desert sand verbena, Abronia villosa villosa (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Desert sand verbena, Abronia villosa villosa (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Bajada lupine, Lupinus concinnus (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Slender wreathplant, Stephanomeria exigua exigua (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Desert sand verbena, Abronia villosa villosa (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Desert dandelion, Malacothrix glabrata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Climbing milkweed, Funastrum cynanchoides hartwegii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Brittlebush, Encelia farinosa (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Indigo bush, Psorothamnus schottii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
? Blair Valley combseed, Pectocarya anisocarpa ? (Apr/12/2017) 🌎? Blair Valley combseed, Pectocarya anisocarpa ? (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
? Blair Valley combseed, Pectocarya anisocarpa ? (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Miniature woolly star, Eriastrum diffusum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Miniature woolly star, Eriastrum diffusum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Miniature woolly star, Eriastrum diffusum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Gander's cholla, Cylindropuntia ganderi (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Engelmann's hedgehog, Echinocereus engelmannii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Climbing milkweed, Funastrum cynanchoides hartwegii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Large flowered trailing windmills, Allionia incarnata villosa (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Hollyleaf cherry, Prunus ilicifolia ilicifolia (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Desert threadplant, Nemacladus rubescens (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Pink velvet mallow, Horsfordia alata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎California barrel cactus, Ferocactus cylindraceus (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Miniature woolly star, Eriastrum diffusum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Chia, Salvia columbariae (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Sigmoid threadplant, Nemacladus sigmoideus (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Desert dandelion, Malacothrix glabrata (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Schott's calico, Loeseliastrum schottii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Eastern threadplant, Nemacladus orientalis (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Miniature woolly star, Eriastrum diffusum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Miniature woolly star, Eriastrum diffusum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Miniature woolly star, Eriastrum diffusum (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Cleveland's tobacco, Nicotiana clevelandii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Fremont's goosefoot, Chenopodium fremontii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Fremont's goosefoot, Chenopodium fremontii (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Short lobe phacelia, Phacelia brachyloba (Apr/12/2017) 🌎Short lobe phacelia, Phacelia brachyloba (Apr/12/2017) 🌎
Date: 2016/4/18
Date: 2017/4/12

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