Day 54 - Joshua Tree National Park

We left Ali and Dave at about 8AM and began our drive to Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree National Park. We stopped in Riverside for breakfast and arrived just before noon at our campground. We kinda skipped lunch and went directly to the National Park after registering for our enening campsite. On the way to Twentynine Palms we passed through an area of wind farms and took a few pictures. It was just about the most wind turbines we had ever seen. The entire valley floor and all the mountain ridges were dotted with generators. California is pretty serious about alternative energy and this place proved that to us.

Joshua Tree NP was, as usual, a great sight. We drove to a high point to view the Palm Springs Valley floor, the Sultan Sea and the San Andreas Fault. The trees looked more like tall cactus to me. They are unique to the Mojave desert. The ridge line in the middle of the valley photo is the San Andreas Fault. We were glad that we were on the east side of the fault just in case it decided to give way.

Video of the drive through the trees
Driving through Joshua Tree NP

A panorama of the valley from the mountain top

San Andreas Fault across the center of this photo

A Joshua Tree Named by the Mormons on their way to California. They thought that the trees looked like Joshua in the Bible.

Joshua Trees (Don't they look like Cactus)

Lucy and Cooper liked this place

2.5 million Joshua tree in the park.

Huge granite rocks

Skull Rock