I love driving to the Oregon Badlands, a vast area where you can do several different hikes and enjoy the high desert, often in complete solitude (individual, or your own group solitude). From the linked website:

The Oregon Badlands Wilderness holds a number of remarkable and exciting landforms and geologic features. Most of the area includes the rugged Badlands volcano, which has features of inflated lava. Windblown volcanic ash and eroded lava make up the sandy, light-colored soil that covers the low and flat places in these fields of lava. 

Everything about volcanoes and deserts fascinates me, so it cannot surprise that I am very attracted to that area even though, at first sight, it doesn’t seem to contain much of interest. But it does. With every visit, I will discover something new, and I will always return home rejuvenated. I acknowledged that it’s not necessarily Badlands-exclusive, but what nature does for you. Still…

Now that Spring has arrived, I’m curious to see if desert lilies will be waiting for me on my next visit. They’re ephemeral and so beautiful.