Palm Springs

The state's own listing for this landmark disagrees with the landmark. OHP dates the resting place 1862 to 1866; the bronze casts 1826-1866, and forty years is not a typo you can shrug at. The plaque stands as cast. What is not in dispute is the seep, nine miles east of Vallecito, and what Warren F. Hall built on it in 1858: a relay station with five horses and a hostler, no beds, where drivers changed teams and kept going.

What the plaque says

Palm Spring Here was a palm-studded desert resting place, 1826-1866, for Mexican pioneers, mountain men, the Army of the West, Mormon Battalion, boundary commission, forty-niners, railway survey, Butterfield Overland Mail stages, and California Legion. It was the site of the Butterfield stage station built in 1858 by Warren F. Hall. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 639 Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with the Fremont-Kearny Historians of Old San Diego, October 6, 1958.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — 13 mi
  Six hundred thousand acres of badlands, slot canyons, and palm oases, and the biggest state park in California.
• Borrego Springs — 25 mi
  A dark-sky town ringed by state park, with 130 metal beasts loose in the desert around it.

More markers nearby

• Vallecito Stage Depot (Station) — 8.6 mi
• Box Canyon — 15 mi
• Los Puertecitos — 17 mi
• Mountain Springs Station — 19 mi