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Pioneertown Mountains Preserve and Mission Creek Preserve are part of the Conservancy’s 33,000-acre Sand to Snow Preserve System. These strategic properties include “missing links” that create wildlife corridors and public hiking routes that connect the public lands between the San Bernardino Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, Joshua Tree National Park, Bighorn Mountains Wilderness and San Gorgonio Wilderness. Conservancy lands include riparian corridors along Pipes Creek, Morongo Creek and Mission Creek. The Conservancy also owns and protects the spectacular Sawtooth Mountains to the south of Pioneertown and the volcanic mesas to the east. Pioneertown Mountains Preserve’s 20,000-acre Pipes Canyon Wilderness is the largest nonprofit wilderness in Southern California. |
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The headquarters for these two preserves is located at the mouth of Pipes Canyon in Pioneertown. Visitor facilities are open from dawn to dusk and include trailhead parking, interpretative displays, a shade ramada and restrooms. A short walk up Pipes Canyon will take visitors to a creek lined with willows and cottonwoods. The vast majority of the Joshua trees, pinyon pines and junipers at Pioneertown Mountains Preserve were killed by a lightning caused fire of unprecedented magnitude in 2006, and much of the preserve is going through natural vegetation succession.
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For information regarding Pioneertown Mountains and Mission Creek, call our desert field office at (760) 369-7105. |
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