Hidden Valley Joshua Tree National Park

... eyes, it was immense and I'd not sen anything like it since living in the Persian Gulf as a kid. Next we stopped at Hidden Valley, a place smugglers, cattle thieves and outlaws used to hide out when being chased. We rolled on some more and stopped for ...

... fertile valley. We enter the park from the south at the Cottonwood Entrance.  Two deserts come together in Joshua Tree National Park, the Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert.  We were particularly enamored with the Mojave Desert side of the ...

... to Americans who are much more patriotic, we headed back into the Scooby bus to make a start on our six hour drive to the Joshua Tree National Park.  I nodded off several times on the way, which caused a bit of a stiff back, as I was sitting at an ...

... NP.  The weather was hotting up now so we kept the hiking to the 49 Palms Trail and some short nature trails, the best one being Hidden Valley trail.  We stayed at the lovely Hidden Valley campground and got some great night ...

... the van, and settled on the Aztec design, such a cool van. We stayed the first night in 29 Palms, just outside the Joshua Tree park. We felt dwarfed by the huge RVs in the campground. They had everything in them, including satellite TV. We had steak and ...

Spent the day exploring Joshua Tree National Park.  Hiked around Hidden Valley and Barker Dam. Intense ...

I drove just a couple blocks down the road from the hotel to the Joshua Tree National Park.  I entered the West Enterence Station (which is to the north of the park - see map of the park as I describe where I go if you wish).  I ...

It's our fourth National Park approaching.  We've already seen a few Joshua Trees in the desert but as we approach they become more and more frequent.  They were named by the Mormons who thought they looked like Joshua holding up his arms with ...

... der Route 66 fuhren wir bis Twentynine Palms (sehr einfallsreich sind sie hier nicht mit den Ortsnamen :)) und von dort in den Joshua Tree National Park.  Dem Namen nach könnte das ja ein Park im Wald oder so sein, ist es aber nicht. Ein Joshua ...

... am Joshua Tree Nationalpark. Von Sedona aus bin ich via Jerome, Prescott, Wueste und dann schliesslich zum Suedeingang des Joshua Tree Nationalparks gefahren, ca. 5 Stunden Fahrzeit. Der Joshua Tree NP ist natuerlich bekannt fuer seine Joshua Trees (wer ...