Joshua Tree National Park: Geology Tour Road

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One of our favorite National Parks is Joshua Tree in California.

We visited the park on several evenings, starting with Geology Tour Road.

An interactive map of our route, heading in the south entrance (which doesn’t have an entrance station or lines of cars, but on the other hand has about an hour of not very exciting scenery):

Entrance sign:

Entrance sign

Interesting rocks:

Interesting rocks

Geology Tour Road is a dirt road (in our opinion, some of the best parts of the park are down dirt roads):

Geology Tour Road
Geology Tour Road
Geology Tour Road

We stopped at Paac Kü̱vü̱hü̱’k (pronounced “paach kurv-er-hurk”), put out our chairs, and had a picnic dinner:

David

Fascinating rocks:

Rocks
Rocks
Rocks

An old dam:

Dam
Rocks
Rocks
Rocks

Heading back up the road, some Joshua trees:

Joshua trees
Joshua trees
Joshua trees

Sunset:

David
Sunset

More rocks:

Rocks
Rocks
Rocks

Supermoon over Joshua trees:

Supermoon