This post is a bit late but just wanted to keep things in chronological order.
Last week we visited Sky Valley Resort in Desert Hot Springs, CA. Their claim to fame is natural hot springs and they offer numerous swimming pools and spas with naturally heated clear mineral rich water.
It was really more of a mobile home park with a very small number of RV sites. The first site they gave us was on a busy corner next to a construction area. But we asked for a better site and they accommodated. The site we ended up with was pretty nice but it was still a mobile home park and not really a campground.
We visited Thousand Palms Oasis Preserve just a few miles down the road from the ‘campground’. We had a nice nature walk and what we discovered was that the reason there are hot springs in that location is that it is smack on top of the San Andreas fault. The hot water in the swimming pools and spas are is coming up through a giant crack in the earth. We looked at a map and figured if California sunk into the ocean while we were there that we were on the surviving side 🙂
