Domelands in the Coyote Mountains Wilderness 

surfponto

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If you are talking about the turnoff just before entering the park(before the border patrol check point) going north on S2 from Ocotillo.....yes. It is the road going to what they now call the 'dome lands', we called it the wind swept caves. We used to backpack to the 'caves' make that a base camp and then pack into the Carrizo Impact area. This was back in the late 50s when I was in my teens....I'll be 69 in a few days. Before BLM closed the road at the mud hills, you could drive way back in there to almost below the caves. There was nothing back in there except some old mining claims. We would find posts with a tin cans attached and inside would be a description such as northwest corner of the so and so claim. There used to be tons of pristine solid sandstone fossils of clams, snails, sea urchins...you name it. I haven't been back there since say mid seventies or early 80s. It is a fascinating area, but it has been definitely been found. I see photos of the domes almost everywhere. If you follow the old road and stay left, you can take a wash all the way down to near the old stage station site. You will be just inside of the impact area.

Tomás