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The Mojave National Preserve, Joshua Tree National Park and Death Valley National Park are the major attractions of the desert, and little wonder. Death Valley is the lowest and hottest stretch of the desert, Joshua Tree National Park the greatest concentration of some of its most notable flora. While the National Parks preserve the Mojave Desert's extremes, the National Preserve, perhaps, preserves the essence of what this desert is - a little Joshua Tree, a little sand and cinder cone, a little wildflower, a little canyon and mountain.

History, both ancient and relatively recent, is also a part of the desert. The Twenty Mule Team Museum recalls the days when this intimidating landscape was crossed not by cars, but animals. The Calico Early Man Site recalls even earlier days, at the dawn of civilization. And the off ghost town serves as a reminder of the ruggedness and difficulty of the Mojave.

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More Info Official Website Full Details Death Valley National Park

Death Valley
Other
760-786-3200

Hottest, Driest, Lowest: A superlative desert of streaming sand dunes, snow-capped mountains, multicolored rock layers, water-fluted canyons and three million acres of stone wilderness. Home to the Timbisha Shoshone and to plants and animals unique to the harshest deserts. A place of legend and a pl...

More Info Official Website Full Details Joshua Tree National Park

74485 National Park Drive, Twentynine Palms
Other
760-367-5500

Viewed from the road, this desert park only hints at its vitality. Closer examination reveals a fascinating variety of plants and animals that make their home in this land shaped by strong winds, unpredictable torrents of rain, and climatic extremes. Dark night skies, a rich cultural history, and su...

More Info Afton Canyon Natural Area

Other

The Mojave River rarely flows above ground - this is one of the few places it does.

More Info Amargosa River Natural Area

Other

Although this area is centered around a river, it has a forceful desert energy, the mountains rising up dry and forbidding in the near distance. The river itself is in Amargosa Canyon, which breaks up the dryness with dense vegetation, some of which forms hanging gardens of a kind. The river is shal...

More Info Antelope Valley Indian Museum

43779 15th Street West, Lancaster
Museum
661-946-3055

The Antelope Valley Indian Museum celebrates Great Basin Indian cultures. The exhibits represent and interpret American Indian groups, both aboriginal and contemporary, of the Southwest, Great Basin, and Californian cultural regions. A number of the artifacts on display are rare or one-of-a-kind ite...

More Info Borax Visitor Center

14485 Borax Road, Boron
Historical Site

This visitor center is right next to the largest open-pit mine California has - and the product is borax. Few places in the world have deposits of borax quite as large or productive.

More Info Calico Early Man Site

Historical Site

Although no human remains have ever been found here, archaeologists have discovered early tools. Famous Dr. Leakey (best known for his work at Olduvai Gorge in Africa) dug here.

More Info Official Website Calico Ghost Town

Yermo
Historical Site
760-254-2122

Mining towns and railroad stops sprung up across California's desert in earlier epochs, now just dusty ghost towns that offer a glimpse of the state's Wild West days. Catch a gunfight (reenacted of course), try your hand at gold panning and sign up for a mine tour at Calico, a ghost town and county ...

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