Please Note: Due to the Desert Gala, there will be no Theater Animal Experience Fri 4/25 - Mon 4/28. The Ironwood Restaurant will close at noon on Sun 4/27. The Ironwood Gift Shop, Baldwin Gallery, and the Desert Garden will be closed all day Sun 4/27.

An extensive desert ironwood forest at the base of the Little Maria Mountains north of Blythe. These trees cannot be dated by counting growth rings, but there is evidence that they live for at least a few centuries and perhaps much longer.


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