Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge - Unit 1 — Attraction in Westmorland

Wildlife - Snow geese, sandhill cranes and other birds get 6. Logistics get 3. The visitor center was closed, so no guidance. We were very lucky to run into a ranger who directed us to a place where about 250 sandhill cranes were foraging. That was great. Snow geese are the big attraction here + '000s of them in huge flocks! For the full experience of all the birds, you need patience and at least a couple of days. Unfortunately for us, we only had one dusk and...

Very unusual place. We went to the unpopulated and I would think unpopular west side of the lake. The idea of a natural occurring salt lake in the desert not near an ocean is difficult to wrap your mind around. We like this kind of unusual happenings. Check it out. You won't be disappointed if you like this kind of...

Amazing place for bird watching. It is less crowded than the other Sonny Bono location, so we enjoyed the walking around more. They're were workers graduating the trail around the reservoir, and they were doing an excellent job with the grading and compacting. We saw a lot of snow geese, and a...