colorado desert: Spring Perambulations in Joshua Tree
- 03/16/12 05:37 AM
Spring is here and I've been wanting an excuse to visit Joshua Tree National Park—our local desert treasure. My cousin's visit to the Palm Springs valley provided the excuse for a memorable day trip this week. With Joan donning the chauffeur's cap and me directing, four of us piled into the car on a balmy spring day and entered the park's southern entrance at Cottonwood Springs just 30 miles from our front door. Added to the nation's jewel box of national parks in 1994—sixty years after Teddy Roosevelt first proclaimed it a National Monument—Joshua Tree is easily the most unique swath (0 comments)