Gorgeous if you go in the spring and like wildflowers, birds, plate tectonics and wide open spaces. I went two years ago and there was a blanket of flowers so thick you couldn't see the ground - only a sea of yellow and blue. As you've probably already discovered, t's one of the few places that you can actually see the actual San Andreas fault line on the surface. We also saw four different kinds of owls, including adorable burrowing owls and hauntingly beautiful barn owls with tiny owlets on the nest. Ask at the visitors center about the guided tours to see them, since they are on land that is normally off-limits during nesting season.

It's relatively remote and services are very basic. Plan to drive a while to get there. We stayed at a campground close to the visitors center and fell asleep to the hooting of Great Horned Owls and coyotes in the distance. Pretty amazing and relatively undiscovered!!

OK we just went there yesterday and MY GOODNESS there's a lotta wildflowers!! Like blankets all over the place! Mostly a few different species of yellow flowers, but other colors as well. HWY 58 seems to be a popular wildflower route. The services are VERY basic, there's a tiny visitor center with bathrooms, and a tiny town with not much.

We saw Burrowing Owls too, Pronghorn Antelopes, another kind of deer, lizards, the rare squirrels, and lots and lots of holes! That place really is alive. The big white dry salt lake is pretty neat, and the place is just so desolate and empty in a lonely and beautiful kinda way, you can sit on the hill and listen and hear nothing but the wind and the critters. I didn't notice any planes overhead and there's no distant traffic noise. The San Andreas Fault with the creek offsets is also very interesting. We didn't do a guided tour as we were only there for the afternoon. IF you're going to camp there I'd suggest you double check to make sure you have ALL your supplies and your car is in tune with a full tank of gas and a working spare tire, because it's a long way from anything.