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Morongo Valley is an unincorporated census-designated place along State Route 62 in San Bernardino County, about 10 miles west of Yucca Valley and just north of the Riverside County line.

Morongo Valley sprawls across 25.2 square miles of high desert at about 2,582 feet of elevation, on the western edge of the Mojave Desert near the northern edge of the Coachella Valley.

The community is the gateway to the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, a roughly 31,000-acre desert oasis protecting one of the largest cottonwood and willow riparian habitats in California.

More than 235 bird species have been recorded in the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, making it an internationally recognized birding site; the preserve was created by the Bureau of Land Management in 1982 and is now part of the Sand to Snow National Monument.

The canyon takes its name from the Morongo clan of the Serrano people, who used the canyon for centuries as a route between the high and low deserts.

The 1909 hunt for Willie Boy - often called the last great posse manhunt of the Old West - passed through Morongo Valley, a story later filmed as Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford.

The 2020 census counted 3,514 people in Morongo Valley, spread thin at only about 139 people per square mile.

Morongo Valley has 1,624 households, about three-quarters of them owner-occupied, and nearly 4 in 10 of its households consist of a person living alone.

Morongo Valley is governed locally by an elected Community Services District, and its only school is Morongo Valley Elementary School, in the Morongo Unified School District.

In June 2005 the Paradise Fire burned about 6,000 acres in western Morongo Valley and destroyed seven homes.