Friday, April 10, 2026

Joshua Tree: The Park

 

We really enjoyed our long day in the park, and got to see lots of interesting boulder piles, blooming Joshua trees, colorful wildflowers and cactus blossoms.
On the Barker Dam trail, Violet pointed out these petroglyphs.
There were more in the cave here.
This was the site of the dam - you can kind of make out the water beyond Violet's head.
This area reminded us of the slot canyons in Zion - kind of. 

Looks like this rock might topple off at any time!
Stace had a silly idea and I went along with it.
Those specks in the center on top of the boulder are Violet and Stacey.
And this is the photo they took of the parking lot, with me in our car, having a rest.

Aptly named Face Rock.
On Friday, we went back into the park (our camp site was very close to the park entrance) to find this hike our horse ride guide told us about. 
We were looking for old mining equipment, and found this along the way.
Hard to make out in the photo, I admit, but here we could spot a couple of mine entrances and old equipment along the hillside across the canyon from us.

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