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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

The desert’s enormous star dunes are mysterious structures. These sand dunes are found in some of Earth’s largest modern deserts, but also on the planet Mars and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.