As someone who has spent a lot of time in the high desert towns of Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley, I’ve long been skeptical of anyone who predicted that Twentynine Palms was about to become the ...

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

From afar (or even from just 10 feet away), the patch of land just south of Highway 62 and east of the town of Joshua Tree looks like any other undeveloped parcel of Mojave Desert landscape ...

NPCA has been working to expand Joshua Tree National Park and establish Chuckwalla National Monument to protect desert tortoise habitat. Here’s why an intact desert landscape matters for the tortoise ...

Known to locals as the High Desert, the area—which includes Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms, Pioneertown, and the unincorporated community of Joshua Tree—has been home to indigenous peoples for ...

Joshua Tree National Park, 800,000 acres of Southern California desert populated with the crooked, spiky-leafed trees that give it its name, is luring more people than ever. Today, the park ...

In Joshua Tree, California, the dream home of painter ... sitting open to let in the cooling desert air, frame a perfect view of the sun setting over a nearby mountain. San Francisco transplants ...

Write Like the Desert (c.) on the last Sunday of October at the majestic Indian Cove campground in Joshua Tree National Park, situated at the north end of the aptly named Wonderland of Rocks where ...

But when the tortoise lover visited the Joshua Tree Tortoise Rescue, she was not prepared for what she found. “Basically, a nightmare,” Keeler says of the condition many of the tortoises were in.

Joshua Tree National Park is my favorite desert landscape. There’s something magical about its collection of tan, monzogranite boulders, craggy peaks and hidden oases with lush palms and cool pools.

Explore the best of Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks alongside NPCA experts and partners on this exciting journey through the Mojave Desert. Visit three large desert parks that NPCA helped ...