Best Sonoran Desert Day Trips & Things to Do

This region offers immense and stunning desert vistas as well as an up-close look at the truly unique flora and fauna that thrive there. Spanning across southeastern California, southwestern Arizona and the Sonora Province in Mexico, the Sonoran Desert boasts the greatest geological and biological diversity of any desert in North America. Joshua Tree National Park in California and Saguaro State Park in Arizona are just a few of the many places where visitors can view the desert in all of its unadulterated splendor. Show All