Joshua Tree

We had a great long weekend in the desert exploring Joshua Tree National Park. Click here for photos. We hiked to FortyNine Palms Oasis (pictured below), Arch, Heart and Skull Rocks, Hidden Valley, Barker Dam and Wall Street Mill. 

We also drove up to Key View lookout (pictured below), which offered a view of the San Andreas Fault (the dark horizontal line running across the middle of the frame) and to the southern end of the park where the Mojave Desert transitions to the Colorado and the landscape shifts dramatically from Joshua Trees to the equally unusual Cholla Cactus. 

In addition to Joshua Tree NP, we checked out a few local attractions, including Pioneer Town, the World Famous Crochet Museum and a beautiful desert sculpture by Daniel Popper called, Transmission (pictured below). 

Oh... and that dust storm was pretty crazy! Thankfully the 30+ mph winds settled down after the first day of our trip.