Joshua Tree National Park is a wild, otherworldly landscape that can either be the perfect escape or a brutal challenge ...

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

National Park Service staffing cuts prompted off-duty rangers and residents to protest at national parks nationwide, ...

Buried within the government bureaucracy of a lease changing hands is the broader uncertainty of what sweeping changes and ...

Federal workers help maintain millions of acres of protected land — and with climate change intensifying burns, conditions ...

Several hundred people protested at Joshua Tree National Park today in response to recent job cuts to the National Park Service.

The possibility of a government shutdown means many federally funded national parks, monuments and attractions might be closed until the government reopens.

I (reluctantly) returned to work after a week’s vacation in Joshua Tree — by which I mean both the small California town 50 ...

If you do hire a climbing guide, make sure that they are permitted to work in Joshua Tree National Park. Each guide is required to have rock guiding certifications through the Professional ...

Thousands of Park Service and Forest Service employees have been fired, leaving few left to clean bathrooms, maintain trails ...

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The vistas are sprawling and unspoiled. Mountains rim blue-sky horizons, and scrub brush scattered across the rocky desert hills sustain mule deer ...

Tired of crowded national parks, or want something new? Here are less visited national parks in California, what months to ...