Palo Verde, California Virtual Travel

Palo Verde

Begin your virtual tour of Palo Verde, California by clicking on any of the above entry points, and follow roads or trails through a network of linked images.

Palo Verde sits next to the Colorado River, at the southwest edge of the Palo Verde Valley. The valley stretches for miles to the north, checkered with farms and crisscrosses with irrigation canals fed by the river. The town is built on either side of an oxbow lake, an abandoned river channel. A short distance to the west, the flat farmland ends and gravelly hills rise toward barren rocky mountains. Creosote, ocotillo, cholla cactus and other desert plants grow in the hills.

Palo Verde is home to 236 people (as of the year 2000). The elevation is just 233 feet. California Highway 78 passes through the town. To the north it leads to Ripley and Blythe, to the south it leads to the Imperial Valley. The county line separating Riverside County from Imperial County passes just north of the town.