The Salton Sea State Recreation Area offers hunting, fishing, swimming, and camping to visitors on the northeastern side of the

Salton Sea The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly salinity, saline endorheic lake in Riverside County, California, Riverside and Imperial County, California, Imperial counties in Southern California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the S ...

Recreation

The Salton Sea State Recreation Area is run by the

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. The visitors center is located on the north side of the park, on

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. The Corvina Beach Campground, is situated near the center of the park. The recreation area was one of the 48

California state parks California State Parks is the state park system for the U.S. state of California. The system is administered by the California Department of Parks and Recreation, a department under the California Natural Resources Agency. The California State ...

proposed for closure in January 2008 by California's Governor

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as part of a deficit reduction program, not enacted then.CBS5.com: List Of Calif. Parks To Close In Budget Proposal
The Recreation Area continues to be open to the public.

Flora and fauna

The Salton Sea Recreation Area is in the

Colorado Desert The Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali valleys. It is home to ...

section of the

Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert () is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States (in Arizona and California). It ...

, in the

Lower Colorado River Valley The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of ...

geographic region. The Salton Sea is a stop on a major flyway for migrating birds. *

List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of , it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United S ...

References

External links

Official Salton Sea State Recreation Area website

Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge website
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Recreation

Flora and fauna

See also

References

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