Stop at the Salton Sea State Recreation Area, north of Bombay Beach, with a marina, visitor’s center, and pleasant camping on the shore of the Dead Sea.

The Salton Sea State Recreation Area is still open on the northeastern side for hunting, fishing, swimming, and camping.

Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to ...

The Salton Sea occupies a much smaller footprint of what used to be Lake Cahuilla, which disappeared in the late 1500s. Then, in a wild spring runoff in 1905, the Colorado River blew out a ...