Nick and I hiked to Newberry Cave which is on the edge of the Newberry Mountains Wilderness east of Barstow. This area is not well-traveled and you probably won't find concise directions to the cave on the internet. But armed with a little bit of research and studying of Google Earth maps, and then with some cross-country hiking and rock scrambling, you, too, may be able to find it.
This cave was the site of some exciting Native American discoveries - there are some faint pictographs near the entrance and archaeologists found artifacts dating back to 6,000 years ago inside. Outside there are some fantastic wildflowers blooming right now including carpets of desert gold, desert dandelions, phacelia, heliotrope, ghost flowers, and one of my favorite flowers, desert five spot. It was a very fun hike :)
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