East Indio Badlands, Indio CA

• 5-star hike • 5 mile loop • Moderate | Gain 760 feet • Indio, CA | Southwest US . Heading counter-clockwise, it's 1.6 miles to the rocky foothills. The East Indio Hills Badlands sit at the edge of California’s Coachella Valley, where tectonic forces along the San Andreas Fault have uplifted and eroded ancient sediments into a maze of miniature canyons and ridges just minutes from suburban Indio.…