K.C.'S ENDLESS ADVENTURES
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact
  • Itinerary Planning Services & Tours
  • Hire K.C. For Your Writing Needs

Now is the Perfect Time to Visit Joshua Tree National Park

2/1/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
I'm in Joshua Tree for a short visit before heading to Sedona and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It's a magical place, even more so at sunrise and sunset when brilliant colors linger in the sky, making the landscape with its bizarre plants and ginormous boulders seem even more alien-like. 

If you've never been, it's a place you'll want to put on your must-visit list only two hours from Los Angeles. It's popular with rock climbers, but my favorite thing to do here is to hike. There are short treks like the one-mile Hidden Valley loop trail that will bring you through a traquil valley encircled on all sides by towering rock formations, also passing a wide variety of desert plants and Joshua Trees - each one is unique and they all seem to have their own "personalities." 
Picture
The 3-mile round trip Ryan Mountain trail ascends 1,075 feet in just 1.5 miles, culminating at an elevation of 5,457 feet. At the top you'll enjoy spectacular panoramic views of jumbled rock formations and Joshua Tree forests surrounding the peak through the Queen, Lost Horse and Pleasant Valleys. 

49 Palms Oasis is 3-mile roundtrip hike where you'll find towering stands of fan palms at its end. They create a canopy over pools of water that are surrounded by large boulders, providing an especially scenic area for contemplation. 

Picture
Another one of my favorite spots is the Cholla Cactus Garden. There's a short nature trail that winds through hundreds of different cacti of varying sizes, shapes and colors like the cholla cactus, or Teddy Bear cactus.
Picture
At the end of the day, one of the most popular things to do is watch the sunset from Keys View - a crowd gathers here every evening just before dusk. As you drive back to the western entrance of the park near Joshua Tree village, the sky continues to get even more brilliant until the colors finally fade away to reveal millions of stars. If you visit, you might want to check out my article on Trips To Discover for even more things to do here. 
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    June 2019
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    September 2016
    August 2016
    January 2016
    October 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    October 2014
    September 2014
    July 2014
    May 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    April 2012

    Categories

    All
    Arctic
    Baja
    Bali
    Beluga Whales
    Castles
    Change
    Colorado
    Croatia
    Ecuador
    Freelance Writer
    Gray Whales
    Greece
    Hawaii
    Indonesia
    Ireland
    Mexico
    Newfoundland
    New Zealand
    Olympic Peninsula
    Polar Bears
    Portugal
    Positive
    Spain
    Tips
    Transition
    Traveling
    Washington State
    Wildlife
    Writing

    Picture

    RSS Feed

    After spending much of her life in a cubicle, at 40-something K.C. decided to finally LIVE. Today, she is always on some sort of adventure, or writing about it.
    ​

    She hopes her journey will inspire you to do the same.
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact
  • Itinerary Planning Services & Tours
  • Hire K.C. For Your Writing Needs