Some see Joshua Tree as just another desert landscape, but others swear it is a spiritual vortex with an energy unlike ...

But how’s this for scary? Joshua Tree National Park without any Joshua trees. Although the noble saguaro cactus may take the cake for the most globally iconic desert plant in the Southwest ...

It’s embarrassing to admit, but ten years ago, when I first started going to Joshua Tree National Park, I got lost. I’d been shuffling along, marveling at the sheer magnitude of the fractured ...

Firefighters are reportedly battling “fire whirls,” which are “spinning, moving column[s] of ascending air rising from a vortex and ... ravaged groves of Joshua tree, juniper, and pinyon ...

The blaze has spawned fire whirls – "a vortex of flames and smoke that forms ... In 2020, a 43,273-acre wildfire burned through the Joshua tree woodland of California's Cima Dome, destroying ...

Lucky Benson is a visual editor based in Los Angeles who regularly spends time in and around Joshua Tree National Park. Joshua Tree National Park, 800,000 acres of Southern California desert ...

The center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It's located south of U.S. Highway 62 (Twentynine Palms Highway) on Park Boulevard in the village of Joshua Tree. The center is free to visit.

Though I was only minutes away from one of Los Angeles County’s biggest suburban cities, the high desert trail I was on felt very similar to Joshua Tree National Park. Twisted and gangly ...

The artist Scott Kildall is waving his hand over the contours of a Joshua tree, just inches from its spiky green, bayonet-like leaves. "If I get too close to it, it will prick me and draw blood ...

I've lived near California's Joshua Tree National Park for almost 20 years. As a local who visits the park often, I've seen many travelers make the same common mistakes. Many visitors assume they ...

Climbers flock to Joshua Tree from around the world to tackle the literally thousands of routes open to them. There are challenges for all ability levels, with more than 8,000 climbing routes ...