The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 upgraded the monument to Joshua Tree National Park. As a transition zone, it’s where the Mojave Desert and the Colorado Desert meet, the western edge ...

Best time to visit Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree is open to the public year-round. Temperatures are most comfortable in the spring and fall, with an average high of 85°F and low of 50°F.

Joshua Tree National Park already represents the southernmost and hottest portion of the western Joshua tree’s range, according to Lynn Sweet, an assistant research ecologist at UC Riverside and ...

The Eureka Fire blazing at Joshua Tree National Park has reached 65% containment as of 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 2, officials said. The brush fire was reported around noon on Friday, May 30, in the ...

The park’s west entrance, located about 5 miles south of downtown Joshua Tree, will be closed to all inbound and outbound traffic from 6 a.m. on Monday, April 7, through 6 p.m. on Thursday ...

Firefighters are still battling the Eureka Fire, which is burning in Joshua Tree National Park. The blaze was first reported on Friday just before noon in the Covington Flats area near Carmelita ...

A fire ignited in the Covington Flats area of Joshua Tree National Park on Friday afternoon and burned 175 acres and several Joshua trees in a region that experts say is critical to the species ...

National Park Service staffing cuts prompted off-duty rangers and residents to protest at national parks nationwide, including Joshua Tree and the Santa Monica Mountains.

Though just an hour’s drive from Palm Springs, the region around California’s Joshua Tree National Park feels like a totally different reality. Of course, that has a lot to do with its ...

The California Legislature passed a resolution in August 2024 to urge Biden to establish the Chuckwalla National Monument and another National Park Service-managed national monument adjacent to ...