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Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree National Park and the surrounding area in California

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Indian Cave Boulder Pictographs

Indian Cave Boulder Pictographs

Years ago, I went out in search of this hidden rock shelter full of pictographs. It is one of the most decorated rock shelters in Joshua Tree National Park. Pictographs, probably made by the Serranos, cover the walls and ceiling of the interior cave. It was difficult to photograph them

Surprise Rock Pictographs

Surprise Rock Pictographs

In early 2013, I was out hiking in the backcountry of the Wonderland of Rocks in Joshua Tree National Park and came across this solitary boulder with petroglyphs and pictographs. They are inside of a concave, hollowed-out section of a large White Tank monzogranite boulder along what could have been

Southern Eagle Pictographs

Southern Eagle Pictographs

The Dzrtgrls led a group of us on a trip to the southern Eagle Mountains to see an area they had been scouting around in. They have made some nice pictograph and petroglyph finds out there, and we have found even more on this trip! This is an interesting and

Red Lady Pictographs

Red Lady Pictographs

Back in 2010, we visited a couple of pictograph sites in Joshua Tree. Both of these sites have red female figures in small caves. Finding pictograph sites is good enough, but there is more to these sites. On the spring equinox, the sun makes a unique appearance at each of

Black Eagle Mine

Black Eagle Mine

Outside Joshua Tree National Park and deep within the stark Eagle Mountains sits the crumbling Black Eagle Mine, surrounded by its massive neighbor, the Eagle Mountain Mine. The Black Eagle’s ruins are slowly fading into the desert, barely recognizable as the bustling operation they once were. In 1898, a

Desert Queen and Eagle Cliff Mines

Desert Queen and Eagle Cliff Mines

This old trail takes you to the Desert Queen and Eagle Cliff Mines, offering a perfect blend of rugged desert hiking and rich mining history. The hike showcases some of the park's largest mine ruins and ends at a hidden rock cabin at Eagle Cliff. It is a