Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree National Park was organized back in 1936 to protect the flora of the California desert. The park is located on the border of two deserts: Colorado and Mojave.

Part of Joshua Tree is in the Imperial Valley, which is the driest and hottest part of the national park. Well, the northern part of the park is in the Mojave Desert, where the climate is more humid. It is in this part of the park that the yucca grows. This exotic tree lives for several hundred years.

Archaeological excavations at Joshua Tree have revealed that people settled these areas at the end of the Ice Age. So the Pinto Indian tribes settled in this area about 8,000 years ago.

But at that time there was not a desert land, but a green land with many rivers and lakes, which were formed as a result of the melting of the glacier. But after four thousand years, all the rivers and lakes dried up, and the green land turned into a desert.

Well, the first Europeans appeared in these places in the ΧΙΧ century. They were gold prospectors who left behind deep mines and wells.

That's why Native American rock art and treasure hunter mines are the main attractions of Joshua Tree Park.