Where there is sand, it is usually formed by the weathering of the exposed bedrock. As the dry desert landscape cools and heats during the day and night, the rock expands and cracks.

Giant Rock with an Oldsmobile pictured in the Los Angeles Times in May 1937. A caption reads, in part: “A wind sock, fluttering from a huge whitewashed rock overlooking the Mojave Desert near ...

With more than 20,000 acres of desert scape, the Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction is a great place to start your desert adventure. It offers a variety of short and long hikes, as ...

Seas of sand form the core of the Sahara, the world’s largest desert. Our expedition caravan wound slowly between dunes, probing for terrain hard enough to get us to our end goal — wind-swept ...