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Hike Mountain Palm Springs Trail - North Fork (Torote Canyon & Palm Bowl), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California

Hike up past smoke trees into Indian Gorge to Torote Canyon to view native elephant trees, and then climb over a ridge to the very isolated Palm Bowl to view the most western palm oasis of Mountain Palm Springs. The trail goes by North Grove, Mary's Bowl Grove (Elephant and Palm Trees) andPalm Bowl, which is ringed by more than 100 palms. There is a primative campsite at Mountain Palm Springs. Torote Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park can be reached from Indian Gorge Road which is off S2 (Sweeny Pass Road) . From I-8 exit on S2 at Ocotillo. Go northwest on S2 for about 18 miles, past the turnoff for Mountain Palm Springs, to the signed turnoff to Indian Gorge on the left.
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