A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it turn off of the dusty state Route 78 in Southern California yields a gravel road leading seemingly nowhere, save for the open desert of Imperial County . But for the 1.5 million strong in the off-road vehicle community, there lies a longstanding bar and grill by the edge of the largest dune system in the state.
The storied Boardmanville Trading Post is an offbeat hub for the Imperial Sand Dunes, providing libations, ice cream, chili cheese fries and frozen pizzas to bake in its onsite wood-fire oven.
Studded with personalized dollar bills — boasting everything from phone numbers to declarations of love with sayings like “Sugar Daddies live forever” — the idiosyncratic log tavern is one of several California desert bars that motorcyclists and all-terrain vehicle riders rely on while crawling the nearby dunes.
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