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

Most visitors to Joshua Tree National Park enter through the West Entrance in the unincorporated town of Joshua Tree, where an abundance of stores, restaurants, bars and lodgings serve visitors.

The best way to get around Joshua Tree National Park is by car. To reach Joshua Tree, most visitors fly into Palm Springs International Airport (PSP), which is about 50 miles east, or via Los ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

At Devils Postpile National Monument in eastern California, NBC reported the park’s only certified EMT ranger on staff was laid off. At Joshua Tree National Park, six probationary employees ...

By Lauren Matison and Ruffin Prevost The abrupt dismissal of at least 1,000 permanent National Park Service employees on Feb. 14 has brought a torrent of “I was fired from the N.P.S.” posts ...

National parks across ... able to climb and drop a tree with a chainsaw." Across the country, some fired parks staff members have weighed in on the consequences for park visitors, from loss ...

Located south of Joshua Tree National Park, 640,000-acre Chuckwalla could be targeted for water beneath the rugged desert floor, according to Donald Medart Jr., former councilman for the Fort Yuma ...

Isle Royale National Park will reopen April 16, 2025, after being closed for the winter. The remote island in northwestern Lake Superior features a variety of wildlife and outdoor activities for ...

A National Park Service park ranger assists a driver while helping direct traffic from backing up into the adjacent community at an entrance to Joshua Tree National Park on February 19 ...