California offers views of the ocean, deserts, ancient forests, painted hills, snow-capped volcanoes and rivers.

Location: Joshua Tree National Park has multiple entrances, but its physical address is 74485 National Park Drive, Twentynine Palms, according to its website. Website: nps.gov/jotr/index.htm ...

Four months into the president’s second term, his policies are upending tourism worldwide. Nine charts show the toll on global travel. By K Oanh Ha and Dorothy Gambrell June 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM ...

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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 ...

Easy Joshua Tree trails Three short nature trails in the heart of the park—Hidden Valley, Barker Dam, and Cap Rock—are a great introduction to Joshua Tree’s natural and human history.

With some of the darkest nights in Southern California, Joshua Tree National Park offers visitors the chance to see the stars, planets, meteors and even the Milky Way without much in the way of ...

The vast majority of Joshua Tree National Park visitors never reach Covington Flats, which isn't near any of the park's main entrances and is only accessible via bumpy dirt roads or treks on foot ...

For example, at Joshua Tree National Park, rangers supply crucial, up-to-date details about park conditions on the National Park Service app.

In fact, national parks in the U.S. alone recorded over 300 million annual visitors in 2023 and 2024, respectively, according to National Park Service data.

The Gates of the Arctic National Park, in Alaska, is one of the marvels of the U.S. national park system. This and other parks lie on roads less traveled, and take some extra incentive to visit ...