Places

Public Law 103-433, signed October 31, 1994. The statute that made Joshua Tree a national park.

Old Woman Springs Road. The north route out of Yucca Valley through Landers and Johnson Valley.

Twentynine Palms Highway, State Route 62. The basin’s main street from the Morongo grade to the park’s north gate.

Serrano, Chemehuevi, Cahuilla, and Mojave peoples have ties to this desert. This entry points to their own publications.

A national monument in 1936, a national park since October 31, 1994. Two deserts, and the reason Highway 62 gets crowded.

Gold claims on Goat Mountain, a post office in a weekend cabin, and the name on the 1992 M7.3 earthquake.

The Marine Corps base east of Twentynine Palms. Training, noise, jobs, and a shared-use slice of Johnson Valley.

The everyday name for these towns between the mountain pass and the base. Not a synonym for the whole High Desert.

The public schools for the basin towns, on a calendar that bends for wind, dust, and heat.