Kambria Henry of Yucca Valley High School won the 2026 Greenleaf Scholarship, the Copper Mountain College Foundation announced April 2.

If Palm Springs is the grande dame of California’s desert, Joshua Tree is her cooler and more rebellious little sister.

In Yucca Valley, the sacred and the mundane coexist in plain sight — sometimes in the same parking lot. Long dismissed as a ...

Here's everything you need to know before visiting California's Joshua Tree National Park.

Cities are places where the quietest spots you can find are a church or a library. Is it possible to beat that? The strange case of a beacon in the middle of a desert and more than 160 km from the ...

Welcome to Rebooked, Condé Nast Traveler's new column where we share the properties our editors and contributors loved so much, they’ve booked them over and over (and over!) again. Travel journalists ...

Lisa Rae Black and Paul Forrester. Every October, artists and art studios open their doors throughout the Joshua Tree region for the Highway 62 Open Studio Art Tours, allowing people to take a closer ...

Most nature enthusiasts headed into southern Nevada aim for two familiar landmarks: the blue expanse of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and the sandstone corridors of Valley of Fire State Park, ...

Iconic and hardy, Joshua trees are stunning symbols of the American Southwest. Known scientifically as Yucca brevifolia, these hardy plants are desert-dwelling specimens with a unique partnership. To ...

Southern California’s famed Joshua trees are flowering months ahead of schedule, baffling scientists and raising fears about the future of the species. The Mojave Desert succulents typically bloom ...

But this year, Joshua trees throughout Southern California have bloomed early, potentially disrupting this precise timeline. Scientists aren’t sure yet what caused the early bloom, or what the impacts ...