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4 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Tecopa, California

Updated August 5, 2019
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Villa Anita

Tecopa, California

Villa Anita in Death Valley

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Tecopa, California

Pholisma sonorae aka "Sand Food"

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

Tecopa, California

China Ranch Date Farm

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.
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Dumont Dunes North Pole

Peek inside this sandy mailbox and you'll spot kids' letters to Santa.
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Dublin Gulch

A unique collection of old miners' cave homes carved in to the hillside cliffs near Death Valley.
9 miles from Tecopa
Above Salt Creek, looking northeast.

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Salt Creek and the Salt Creek Hills

An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.
15 miles from Tecopa

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