Some see Joshua Tree as just another desert landscape, but others swear it is a spiritual vortex with an energy unlike anywhere else. Its twisted, otherworldly trees and massive boulders have ...

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 ...

Over the past decade or two, Joshua Tree has morphed from a relative wilderness to a buzzy destination that seems to be every L.A. hipster’s weekend break of choice. But despite the influx of ...

Here’s what travelers should know about Joshua Tree, the latest national park in USA TODAY’s yearlong series. “We are where two deserts meet, and so we have the distinction of having not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Droves of people eager to see the Perseid meteor shower at Joshua Tree National Park led to bumper-to-bumper traffic, left behind trash, set illegal campfires and got their cars stuck in the sand ...

Joshua Tree National Park will move forward with a significant infrastructure upgrade project that will last into early 2026. The project includes constructing a new entrance station at the park ...

Conservationists have tried for years to protect the Western Joshua tree, a twisty plant strewn across the desert landscape. They sought a threatened-species designation from California that is ...

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 ...