California's desert landscapes are truly mesmerizing places to explore on foot, but this state park is all the more magical ...

While many parts of the preserve require four-wheel drive, the aptly named Rings Trail is accessible along paved roads, and ...

My hoodie would only last another few minutes, if that, under the quickly heating up late morning sun. My chihuahua Lupe and I were taking our time on the Mojave Riverwalk in Victorville as runners, ...

Growing up in Orange County, Stacey Yoon had never really seen the Milky Way. So when she saw a Facebook ad for an internship where she'd be measuring darkness in the middle of the Mojave Desert, she ...

The Mojave Road is a historic route traversing California’s Mojave Desert, rich in history and adventure. Originating as a Native American trade path, it was later utilized by Spanish explorers, ...

I know a lot of people think of deserts as big, empty, lifeless wastelands — that’s one of the reasons it can be tough to get folks to care about protecting them. But when I moved to Southern ...

There is no sight more gratifying to me than the open road, for the open road allows the body to wander and the mind to wonder. It offers an escape for the imagination and a way of life governed by ...

This is not a newsletter about Joshua Tree. That’s not to say the trendy desert town isn’t worth visiting — it absolutely is! In fact, it was the focus of a previous edition of Escapes about six ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

Mojave Trails National Monument might qualify as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, according to new data released Tuesday by the Mojave Desert Land Trust. The 1.6 million acre monument borders ...