Joshua Tree National Park News

A bee swarm has forced the closure of one of the campgrounds at Joshua Tree National Park.

Arctic Monkeys have labelled their new single Crying Lightning as "strange as far as a pop song goes". The track, the first release from upcoming third LP Humbug, was recorded in Joshua Tree National Park with Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme.

After reading an article about the Joshua Tree National Park in The Record Travel section, I told my husband, "I want to go there!" Soon it was, "Here we go!" We made a trip to the Mojave Desert in California.

WASHINGTON The Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center in Twentynine Palms was allocated $300,000 at the request of Congressman Jerry Lewis Friday to expand and better display its priceless collection of American Indian cultural artifacts.

Sen. Feinstein: What's good for Joshua Tree National Park isn't necessarily good for Point Reyes National Seashore.

A breeze stirs the silence at Joshua Tree National Park as a red-tailed hawk takes flight from the spiky arm of one of the namesake plants in search of breakfast.

Two men were killed and two women were critically injured after the vehicle they were in rolled over and crashed into a tree at Joshua Tree National Park.

National parks across the country -- including Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Yosemite and Grand Canyon -- will be open for free three weekends this summer.

As in past years, Joshua Tree National Park will once again close some campgrounds for the 2009 summer season.

If youa ve always dreamed of driving up the California coast or through the back roads of its wine country, then the latest edition of the California Road Trips Guide , which went online last month, might help you in your trip planning.

Joshua Trees are just weird, aren't they? They are a member of the tulip family.

Jim Harvey loves Germany. Not that he's ever been there, to appreciate the sauerbraten, for instance, or revel in the Bavarian Alps.

A wildfire that burned 450 acres in Joshua Tree National Park over the Memorial Day weekend has been fully contained, officials said today.

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Firefighters have fully contained a brush fire in Joshua Tree National Park in the Mojave Desert.Park spokesman Joe Zarki says the 450-acre fire was fully contained Tuesday morning.

A wildfire burning in the Joshua Tree National Park above Palm Springs since Sunday afternoon is now 150-acres and 65% contained, according to firefighters.

Firefighters took advantage of cooler weather Monday to gain ground on a pair of small brush fires in Southern California.

Right now, a fire is burning in the Joshua Tree National Park. The fire began before 4 p.m. Sunday near Lost Horse Mountain and Keys View Road.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.- On Thursday, a San Bernardino County Superior Court judge overturned the controversial approval of a new Wal-Mart Supercenter near Joshua Tree National Park because the project's environmental study improperly dismissed the impacts from the project's greenhouse gas emissions.

A judge in California has blocked, at least temporarily, Wal-Mart from building a Supercenter near Joshua Tree National Park.

Barnett English brews coffee and sells it in vending booths at music festivals around the country.