Palm Tree Ring (Desert Center, California)
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Desert Center, California
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In the early 1990s, Stanley Ragsdale commissioned the planting of several hundred palm trees in strange patterns on the town’s frontage with Interstate 10. When asked why, he said he always wanted a “tree-ring circus.” Since his death in 1999, the trees have fallen into disrepair and many have died.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 33°42'41"N 115°24'6"W
- Former Reservoir 22 km
- Alluvial Fan (plain) 45 km
- Graded, but never used, Railroad bed 51 km
- Hidden Spring Canyon 53 km
- Joshua Tree Geology Tour Road 71 km
- Bermuda Dunes (Riverside County) 84 km
- Clark Dry Lake 92 km
- Rockhouse Canyon 96 km
- Butler Canyon 99 km
- White Water Canyon 121 km
- Orocopia Mountains Wilderness Area (BLM) 36 km
- Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range (CMAGR) 45 km
- Chocolate Mountains 47 km
- Joshua Tree National Park 50 km
- Mecca Hills Wilderness Area (BLM) 56 km
- Salton Sea 60 km
- Salton City, California 68 km
- Truck Haven OHV 74 km
- Borrego Valley Manuever Area 82 km
- Coachella Valley 82 km