“You can’t see anything (in the desert) from a car; you’ve got to get out of the… contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus.

The Colorado Desert is hotter and drier than the western section of the park that lies in the southern part of the Mojave Desert. Joshua Tree National Park offers more than we can describe here, but ...

“The Country since leaving the Colorado has been a dry rocky sandy Barren desert.” — Jedediah Smith, 1826. Early western explorers who ventured into the Mojave Desert, like Jedediah Smith, often ...

Protecting two different desert ecosystems, Joshua Tree National Park is minutes from Palm Springs. Conveniently located off Interstate 10, this is an easy national park to drive through. So you can ...