Hidden Valley
Enclosed valley with walls of rounded rock in Joshua Tree National Park, featuring a roughly 1.6 km loop trail among Joshua trees and giant boulders, popular with climbers.
Califórnia · the United States
In the destination Palm Springs and Joshua Tree.
In the photo: Oasis of Mara, Twentynine Palms
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The city
Small town in the Mojave Desert, beside the north entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, where the Oasis of Mara visitor center is located. It is the most convenient base for exploring the park, with basic hotels, restaurants, and painted murals on downtown walls. Within the park, a few kilometers away, are Hidden Valley, the Keys View lookout, and the Cholla Cactus Garden.
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The local experience
Enclosed valley with walls of rounded rock in Joshua Tree National Park, featuring a roughly 1.6 km loop trail among Joshua trees and giant boulders, popular with climbers.
Lookout at about 1,580 meters altitude in the Little San Bernardino Mountains, inside Joshua Tree, with views over the Coachella Valley, the San Andreas Fault, the Salton Sea and the San Jacinto peaks.
Natural area in Joshua Tree, at the transition between the Mojave and Colorado deserts, with thousands of cholla cacti with pale spines, crossed by a short trail of about 400 meters.
Native palm oasis next to the Joshua Tree visitor center in Twentynine Palms, with a short flat trail, connected to the history of Indigenous peoples and the town’s name.