Imperial Valley Vacation Resorts
El Centro Best Western - John Jay Inn
El Centro Ramada Inn - 147-rooms
Palm Springs Azure Sky Resort
Palm Springs Ballantines Resort
Palm Springs Best Western Las Brisas - deluxe rooms amid the beauty and serenity of Palm Springs
Indio Best Western Date Tree Inn
Palm Springs Caliente Tropics Resort - Famous luxury desert motor inn.
Barstow Best Western Desert Villa Inn - deluxe rooms amid the beauty and serenity of the Mohave Desert.
Yermo Oak Tree Inn - just 11 miles north of Barstow on I-15.
Palm Desert Shadow Mountain Resort - Golf & Tennis Vacation
Rancho Mirage Lodge -

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Ramada Inn - El Centro CA
1455 Ocotillo Dr., El Centro, CA 92243 US;

Just a short drive away from the local fairgrounds, and NAF El Centro, home of the "Blue Angels." El Centro is a predominately an agricultural and farming community. Located near the Glamis Sand Dunes, Buttercup Valley Sand Dunes, Luguna Mountain Recreation areas, Salton Sea Lake, and Mexicalli, one of the 10 largest and most industrial cities in Old Mexico.

Cibola National Wildlife Refuge
Cibola NWR is located in the floodplain of the lower Colorado River and surrounded by a fringe of desert ridges and washes. Because of the river’s life sustaining water, wildlife here survive in an environment that reaches 120 degrees in the summer and receives an average of only 2 inches of rain per year.

Picacho State Recreation Area
Lower Colorado River
100 years ago Picacho was a gold mining town with 100 citizens. Today the site is a State Park, popular with boaters, hikers, anglers and campers. The park offers diverse scenery, including beavertail cactus, wild burros, bighorn sheep and thousands of migratory waterfowl.

Imperial National Wildlife Refuge

Wildlife habitat along 30 miles of the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California, including the last unchannelized section before the river enters Mexico. Watch at dawn and dusk for desert bighorn sheep and mule deer heading to the river for a drink. Ducks, geese, shorebirds, and other waterbirds flock to the lower Colorado River each year to spend the winter.