Hiking the Barker Dam Trail, a mostly flat, one-mile loop in Joshua Tree National Park, dispels this myth as you encounter ground squirrels and fruiting cactuses. Nate Abbott for The New York ...

No photographic image has ever done justice to the desert. Forests and mountains are endlessly photogenic, as are beaches and jungles. But the experience of taking in a desert vista has as much to ...

Urge President Biden and Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, to expand Joshua Tree National Park and establish Chuckwalla National Monument through use of the Antiquities Act. In the face of ...

Just outside the boundary of Joshua Tree National Park, the region known as Eagle Mountain has been at the center of controversy over inappropriate, harmful development proposals for years.