{"id":622345,"date":"2026-02-28T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/622345\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:20:18","slug":"three-deserts-near-l-a-you-can-visit-before-the-end-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/622345\/","title":{"rendered":"Three deserts near L.A. you can visit before the end of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/newsletters\/the-wild-sign-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" alt=\"Newsletter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772284816_195_.png\"  width=\"181\" height=\"48\"\/>     Newsletter <\/a>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Brenda Elizondo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/brenda-elizondo\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Brenda Elizondo staff headshot at LA Times Photo Studio in El Segundo, CA on Wednesday, July 23, 2025\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761061870_38_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>  <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Jaclyn Cosgrove\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/jaclyn-cosgrove\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Jaclyn Cosgrove.\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772284818_281_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      Feb. 28, 2026 3:33 AM PT        <\/p>\n<ul data-element=\"action-bar-menu\" class=\"flex gap-2 list-none \">\n<li data-element=\"action-bar-share\" class=\"flex  relative \">\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking fo something fun to do this weekend? Here are three deserts near L.A. you can visit before winter\u2019s end. <\/p>\n<p>             <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Brenda Elizondo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/brenda-elizondo\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761061870_38_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Brenda Elizondo is an audience engagement fellow at the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a video content creator and reporter for L.A. Times Food and De Los, the Latinidad section. She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton.<\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Jaclyn Cosgrove\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/jaclyn-cosgrove\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772284818_281_.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Jaclyn Cosgrove covers the (great!) outdoors at the Los Angeles Times. They started at The Times in 2017 and have written about wildfires, culture, protests, crime and county government. In 2022, they managed For Your Mind, a yearlong mental health project. Cosgrove is originally from rural Oklahoma and is a proud Oklahoma State University graduate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsletter Feb. 28, 2026 3:33 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Looking fo something fun to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":622346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[23513,266284,1582,160915,276,29787,4219,392,23512,5980,2384,266285,6276,2961,224,2444,5337,1809,3159],"class_list":["post-622345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bachelor","tag-brenda-elizondo","tag-ca","tag-cal-state-fullerton","tag-california","tag-communication","tag-crime","tag-culture","tag-degree","tag-desert","tag-end","tag-jaclyn-cosgrove-feb","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-protest","tag-winter"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116148465341283064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}