Joshua Tree National Park: Geology Tour Road

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:

Interesting rocks:

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

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

Fascinating rocks:

An old dam:

Heading back up the road, some Joshua trees: