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Gordons Well - Dune Buggy Flats

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Gordon's Well GPS Coordinates - 32° 43.10 N / 114° 56.16 W (Dune Buggy Flats)

Dune Buggy Flats Gordon's Well
Dune Buggy Flats camping area

Dune Buggy Flats
Vendors line up along canal. Pair-A-Dice tower is in the middle of this image.

Gordon's Well Sand Drags
Impromptu sand drags form most weekend afternoons

Gordon's Well Canal
Watch for markers at the south end of the sand drags

Typical camp at Dune Buggy Flats

Gordon's Well - Test Hill
Test Hill - Freeway Hill

South Dunes - TerraServer Interactive Aerial Photo
Dune Buggy Flats - TerraServer Interactive Aerial Photo
Gordon's Well Satellite Image
Pair-A-Dice - TerraServer Interactive Aerial Photo

Getting there from the Dunes

From Gecko Road, take the Sand Highway south until it ends above Dune Buggy Flats
From Buttercup, travel west to the Gordons Well I-8 overpass. It is legal to cross the bridge on OHVs. Take a right at the "T" (left would take you to Pair-A-Dice).

Getting the from the Highway

Take the Gordons Well exit off of I-8. Go north. At "T", go right past dumpsters and over the canal. Pay station is just past the canal.

Maps & Satellite Images (click to enlarge)

New Border Fence on the south side of Interstate 8

Imperial Sand Dunes, west of Yuma, Ariz. – A stretch of border fence directly south of where Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was murdered by drug traffickers in January 2008. Agent Aguilar was killed by the driver of a drug load vehicle that drove unhindered into the U.S. across the Imperial Sand Dunes. The Department of Homeland Security has now constructed fence along 359 miles of the nation’s Southwest border.

All American Canal Lining Project

The new concrete lined section of the All American Canal will result in the conservation of 67,700 acre-feet per year of Colorado River water currently lost to seepage. The project is a 23 mile long water conveyance project that replaces the unlined canal with a concrete-lined canal.

Construction period is from June 2007 - March 2010.

OHV access at popular areas like Test Hill will be maintained.

All American Canal Lining Project Details

Information

Pair-A-Dice (aka Duner's Diner) is just west of the Gordons Well exit on I-8. At the "T", go left (west) a few hundred yards (Pair-A-Dice Satellite Image).
BLM pay station at the entrance to Dune Buggy Flats (Satellite Image)
More Vault Toilets to be added at the ISDRA
BLM Ranger Station is now open at Buttercup (east of Gordons Well and on the south side of I 8)