Anza-Borrego Desert
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IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)
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Desert view from Font's Point
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| Location | San Diego, Imperial, and Riverside Counties, California, USA |
| Nearest city | Borrego Springs and Julian, California |
| Coordinates | 33°15′33″N 116°23′57″W / 33.25917°N 116.39917°WCoordinates: 33°15′33″N 116°23′57″W / 33.25917°N 116.39917°W |
| Area | 585,930 acres (2,371.2 km2) |
| Established | 1933 |
| Governing body | California Department of Parks and Recreation |
| Designated | 1974 |
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (ABDSP) is a state park located within the Colorado Desert of southern California, United States. The park takes its name from 18th century Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and borrego, the Spanish word for bighorn sheep. With 600,000 acres (240,000 ha) that includes one-fifth of San Diego County, ABDSP is the largest state park in California and, after New York's Adirondack Park, the second largest in the contiguous United States. The park occupies eastern San Diego County and reaches into Imperial and Riverside counties, enveloping two communities: Borrego Springs (home of the park headquarters) and Shelter Valley.
ABDSP is around a two-hour drive northeast from San Diego, southeast from Riverside or Irvine, and south from Palm Springs. The park is an anchor in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve, and adjacent to the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.
ABDSP includes 500 mi (800 km) of dirt roads, 12 designated wilderness areas, and 110 mi (180 km) of hiking trails to provide visitors with many opportunities to experience the park's unique version of the Colorado Desert environs. Park information and maps, interpretive events and displays and listening devices for the hearing impaired are all available in the Visitor Center. ABDSP has Wi-Fi access to the Internet in various sections of the park, as do 55 other California state parks.
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