Scattered across the open desert north of town are more than 130 large metal sculptures: dinosaurs, sabretooth cats, mammoths, scorpions the size of pickup trucks, a flock of running horses, and a serpent that snakes for more than a hundred metres across the flats. They sit on private land owned by the late Dennis Avery, who left them open to the public, free of charge.
A map of the sculptures is available at the visitor centre and most local shops. You can drive between them on the public roads — Borrego Springs Road, Big Horn Road, Henderson Canyon Road — and walk in for closer looks. Late afternoon, when the metal catches the low sun, is the photogenic hour.