• Sunrise at the Cholla Cactus Garden

    Joshua Tree

    National Park California

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  • Pinto Basin Road Renovation

    Pinto Basin Road is being renovated. On weekdays you may encounter travel delays of up to 30 minutes. Cholla Cactus Garden is closed on weekdays. Cottonwood Visitor Center hours are 9 to 4 on weekdays, 8 to 4 weekends. More »

  • Rattlesnake Canyon Remains Closed

    To provide additional time to mitigate the vandalism, Rattlesnake Canyon will remain completely closed to the public until further notice. More »

Proposed Action Chosen For Road Reconstruction

The National Park Service will host a public meeting on September 16 from 9 to
11 am at park headquarters, located at 74485 National Park Drive
in Twentynine Palms, to inform the public of the preferred alternative selected
and address comments and action items discussed at the July 28th public meeting for the
reconstruction and rehabilitation of approximately 23.5 miles of Pinto Basin Road in Joshua
Tree National Park.

The proposed action will include widening, realigning, and modifying the existing 20- to
22-foot-wide paved road to a 24-foot- wide road, with a design speed of 35 or 45 miles
per hour. The speed limit would depend on the location along the roadway. The proposed
action will redesign and realign the road to improve sight distance at Cholla Cactus Garden, Porcupine Wash, and at the Pinkham Canyon Road intersection.

The proposed action is part of a phased effort to rehabilitate many of the park's primary
roadways in accordance with the 1995 General Management Plan. The primary objective of
the project would be to improve road safety conditions on Pinto Basin Road.

Did You Know?

Fault map of the park

Joshua Tree is crisscrossed with hundreds of faults, and is a great place to see raw rocks and the effects of earthquakes. The famous San Andreas Fault bounds the south side of the park and can be observed from Keys View. More...