Anza-Borrego Desert: Carrizo West Fork Palms Second - Jacumba Jim Canyon

Rating *****
Length 4.5 mile (return) - 4 Hour (round trip). Easy at first/Moderate.
Elevation 1040 - 1590 feet
Access Take the signed exit Carrizo wash close to mile 48.5. Drive the wash road for about 5.3 mile and park.

Start hiking up the rock filled wash or along the road (West).
Not much further, you will hit running water, we've yet to see a fork of the Carrizo Gorge with clear running water.
Plenty of small clear pools and running water from a spring.
Pretty easy so far, going left or right following the water in this narrow canyon.

The mesquite barrier is real dense, so head out of the canyon at point "Out".
This is rather easy once you are out of the canyon, except for the Cholla, plenty of them over here, but there is room for a safe hike.

All of the sudden the water is gone, so are the Mesquite and the canyon is accessible again.
Another barrier and the canyon narrows, it takes about 2 hour round trip to get up to this point.
Stay on the canyon floor up to a dry fall.
The fall can be bypassed on both sides, the best way is to go up on the left (south) or go up and down on the right side (north).
Passing the fall is probably the biggest obstacle on this hike, after that is only a short trip up to the final palm oasis.

How to get here:

Take the signed exit Carrizo wash close to mile 48.5, just past the Bow Willow camp ground (from the North)
Drive the wash road for about 5.3 mile at a rocky stretch.
Road conditions change a lot, I've seen regular cars on part of the road, but in some years the soft sand warning is warranted.
You may encounter a rocky stretch that is close to the limit of our SUV (Subaru Forester).
We parked about 200 Yards short of the wash, no sense to risk anything for such a short stretch.
A 4x4 is highly recommended and most likely needed.

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Our plant list

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(Dec/27/2014)California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Dec/27/2014)
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Rabbitsfoot grass, Polypogon monspeliensis (Dec/27/2014)Rabbitsfoot grass, Polypogon monspeliensis (Dec/27/2014)
(Dec/27/2014)California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Dec/27/2014)
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California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Dec/27/2014) (Dec/27/2014)
California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Dec/27/2014)California suncup;False mustard, Eulobus californicus (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
California suncup;False mustard, Eulobus californicus (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Slender lobed four o'clock, Mirabilis tenuiloba (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Emory's rockdaisy, Perityle emoryi (Feb/16/2017) 🌎White fiesta flower, Pholistoma membranaceum (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Bigelow's monkey flower, Mimulus bigelovii bigelovii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Wishbone plant, Mirabilis laevis retrorsa (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
California fagonia, Fagonia laevis (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Anderson's desert thorn, Lycium andersonii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Anderson's desert thorn, Lycium andersonii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Anderson's desert thorn, Lycium andersonii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Bladderpod bush, Peritoma arborea angustata (Feb/16/2017) 🌎 (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Arizona fiesta flower, Pholistoma auritum arizonicum (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Arizona fiesta flower, Pholistoma auritum arizonicum (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Prickly sow thistle, Sonchus asper asper (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Fremont's desert thorn, Lycium fremontii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Spotted eucrypta, Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia bipinnatifida (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Fishhook, Mammillaria dioica (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Big galetta, Hilaria rigida (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Desert lotus, Acmispon rigidus (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Wallace's woolly daisy, Eriophyllum wallacei wallacei (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Wedgeleaf draba, Draba cuneifolia (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Whispering bells, Emmenanthe penduliflora penduliflora (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Arizona fiesta flower, Pholistoma auritum arizonicum (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Arizona fiesta flower, Pholistoma auritum arizonicum (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Common phacelia, Phacelia distans (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Common fiddleneck, Amsinckia intermedia (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Wallace's woolly daisy, Eriophyllum wallacei wallacei (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Pale yellow suncup, Camissoniopsis pallida pallida (Feb/16/2017) 🌎California fagonia, Fagonia laevis (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
California fagonia, Fagonia laevis (Feb/16/2017) 🌎 (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Newberry's velvet mallow, Horsfordia newberryi (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Newberry's velvet mallow, Horsfordia newberryi (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Fishhook, Mammillaria dioica (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Arrow leaf, Pleurocoronis pluriseta (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Bigelow's monkey flower, Mimulus bigelovii bigelovii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Brown eyed primrose, Chylismia claviformis peirsonii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Bigelow's monkey flower, Mimulus bigelovii bigelovii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎Bigelow's monkey flower, Mimulus bigelovii bigelovii (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
(Dec/27/2014)Slender lobed four o'clock, Mirabilis tenuiloba (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Mortero (Feb/16/2017) 🌎 (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
(Feb/16/2017) 🌎Dry fall (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
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California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Feb/16/2017) 🌎California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Feb/16/2017) 🌎 (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
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(Feb/16/2017) 🌎Fall (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
California fan palm, Washingtonia filifera (Feb/16/2017) 🌎 (Feb/16/2017) 🌎
Horsfordia newberryi , Newberry's velvet mallow (Feb/16/2017) 🌎 (Dec/28/2017) 🌎
Close to the creek. (Dec/28/2017) 🌎 (Dec/28/2017) 🌎
(Dec/28/2017) 🌎As seen from the south canyon wall (Dec/28/2017) 🌎
As seen from the south canyon wall (Dec/28/2017) 🌎California barrel cactus, Ferocactus cylindraceus (Dec/28/2017) 🌎
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(Dec/28/2017) 🌎Nicotiana obtusifolia , Desert tobacco (Nov/20/2023) 🌎
Eriogonum inflatum , Desert trumpet (Nov/20/2023) 🌎Krameria bicolor , White rhatany (Nov/20/2023) 🌎
Washingtonia filifera , California fan palm (Nov/20/2023) 🌎Agave deserti deserti , Desert agave (Nov/20/2023) 🌎
Krameria bicolor , White rhatany (Nov/20/2023) 🌎Deinandra floribunda, Tecate tarplant (Nov/20/2023) 🌎
Fagonia laevis , California fagonia (Nov/20/2023) 🌎Meleagris gallopavo, Wild Turkey (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Meleagris gallopavo, Wild Turkey (Mar/10/2025) 🌎 (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Washingtonia filifera , California fan palm (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Washingtonia filifera , California fan palm (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Mirabilis tenuiloba , Slender lobed four o'clock (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Neltuma odorata , Honey mesquite (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Lycium andersonii , Anderson's desert thorn (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Lycium fremontii , Fremont's desert thorn (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Encelia farinosa farinosa , Brittlebush (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Cylindropuntia ganderi ganderi , Gander's cholla (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Agave deserti deserti , Desert agave (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Bebbia juncea aspera , Sweetbush (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Stillingia linearifolia , Narrow leaf stillingia (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Dry fall (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Dry fall (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Nicotiana obtusifolia , Desert tobacco (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Washingtonia filifera , California fan palm (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Encelia farinosa farinosa , Brittlebush (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Washingtonia filifera , California fan palm (Mar/10/2025) 🌎 (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Dry fall (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Dry fall (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
(Mar/10/2025) 🌎Dry fall (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Cylindropuntia ganderi ganderi , Gander's cholla (Mar/10/2025) 🌎Horsfordia newberryi , Newberry's velvet mallow (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
Barb wire fence (Mar/10/2025) 🌎 (Mar/10/2025) 🌎
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Date: 2017/2/16
Date: 2017/12/28
Date: 2023/11/20
Date: 2025/3/10

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