In addition to admiring the park's namesake plants up close, you can see where two different desert ecosystems meet alongside a wide variety of plants and wildlife. Plus, Joshua Tree National Park ...

The rest of Joshua Tree National Park will remain open, but a full fire ban is in effect until Oct. 1, meaning campfires, woodburning camp stoves and charcoal grills are prohibited.

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 ...

In San Bernadino County, Mojave Desert Land Trust was awarded $577,000 to acquire an 80-acre property south of Yucca Valley within a wildlife corridor that connects Joshua Tree National Park with ...

Keeping kids engaged and entertained at Joshua Tree National Park is often a matter of simple pleasures like camping in the desert, watching the heavens through a microscope, or scrambling between ...

In 2021, ranger Anna Marini formalized the park’s Preventative Search and Rescue Program, one of the first in the national parks system to be overseen by a dedicated ranger.

Crews at Joshua Tree National Park have begun to survey damages to its namesake plant in the wake of the latest wildfire that has burned more about 200 acres in an area known as a "refuge" of ...