[4K] Joshua Tree National Park California USA in 2023 - Cap Rock to Skull Rock

Joshua Tree National Park California USA
Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree National Park is an American national park in southeastern California, east of San Bernardino and Los Angeles and north of Palm Springs. It is named after the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert. Originally declared a national monument in 1936, Joshua Tree was redesignated as a national park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act.[4] Encompassing a total of 795,156 acres (1,242.4 sq mi; 3,217.9 km2)[2] - slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island - the park includes 429,690 acres (671.4 sq mi; 1,738.9 km2) of designated wilderness. Straddling San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, the park includes parts of two deserts, each an ecosystem whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation: the higher Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains traverse the southwest edge of the park.[5]
Cap Rock Trail
This trail is a 0.4-mile (0.6-km) loop with minimal elevation change. It winds through Joshua tree woodland and between spectacular monzogranite rock formations, where you will find excellent examples of species capitalizing on microhabitats such as shady boulder crevices. Juniper woodlands are represented here, as well as a spectacular diversity of desert shrubs.
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Skull Rock Trail
Start this dirt trail across the road from the entrance to Jumbo Rocks Campground, at the Skull Rock parking lot, or from within the campground. If you go counterclockwise from the parking lot, the trail proceeds north of Park Boulevard through Mojave mid-elevation mixed scrub and riparian corridors, where you will see cat’s claw acacia and desert almond dominating the sandy areas. After crossing Park Boulevard you will see oak woodlands among the boulders, with California buckwheat and Mojave yucca along the ridgelines. This trail has many interpretive signs along the path and takes you by the famous Skull Rock. The last stretch of the loop follows the paved road through the campground. The loop is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) with an elevation gain of 120 feet (37 m).
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Videography by GMC Blvd

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Road is looking very nice into the desert, sky covered with white blanket ( clouds ) in the end of the video. Beautiful desert and trees, cap rock is really like a cap on the rock.🙂