Parks, Conservation Centers and Research Facilities
There are many National Parks and Monuments; federal and state nature reserves and wildlife refuges; state, county, and city parks; and government or nonprofit group operated natural history museums, science research institutes, and botanical gardenss and desert landscape gardens.
- Index: Protected areas of the Sonoran Desert
- Index: Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
- Sonoran Desert protected areas include
- Arizona–Sonora Desert Museum
- Sonoran Desert National Monument
- Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park—Sonoran Desert flora arboretum
- Anza–Borrego Desert State Park
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
- Saguaro National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Reserva de la Biosfera el Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar—Pinacate National Park, in Sonora, Mexico
- Indio Hills Palms State Reserve
- Coachella Valley National Wildlife Refuge
- Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
- Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
- South Mountain Park
- Sonoran Arthropod Studies Institute
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