Downtown Joshua Tree

MSN: We consider these 11 spots the strangest sites in Joshua Tree — do you agree?

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Desert towns have always carried some mystery with lonely highways, faded signs and strange relics from another time. In the Joshua Tree area, that mystique lingers on with bizarre roadside ...

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We consider these 11 spots the strangest sites in Joshua Tree — do you agree?

Up and Away Magazine on MSN: Where to Stay in Joshua Tree: 29 Best Hotels, Cabins and Campgrounds

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Given Joshua Tree’s wide variety of eclectic lodging options, planning where to stay is half the fun. With so many hip hotels, trendy Airbnbs, quirky cabins, and boulder-strewn campgrounds, one ...

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Where to Stay in Joshua Tree: 29 Best Hotels, Cabins and Campgrounds

The Desert Sun: How a Joshua Tree cowboy statue went from a swap meet find to an icon

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Locals and tourists driving along Twentynine Palms Highway toward Joshua Tree National Park have likely noticed a towering 20-foot cowboy statue known as Big Josh. He stands guard over The Station, a ...

How a Joshua Tree cowboy statue went from a swap meet find to an icon

Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...