Joshua Tree Adventures

Name: Joshua Tree Adventures
Address: 59920 Onaga Trail, Joshua Tree, CA, US
Telephone: +18026734385
Price range: $$
Rating: 5

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Joshua Tree Adventures offers customized guided experiences exploring the best "off the beaten path" sights of Joshua Tree National Park.

Joshua Tree Adventures offers guided trips into Joshua Tree National Park. We specialize in showing hidden/hard to find and off the beaten path sightseeing tours. Our tours are fully customizable and our options include, nature hikes, scrambling adventures, peak ascents, Wonderland of Rocks tours, caving, and stops at both native American and mining cultural sites. If booked in advance our tours a

lso include a trail snack from the Joshua Tree Farmers Market. Joshua Tree Adventures is owned and operated by Ethan Peck who has been facilitating outdoor adventures for over 10 years.

04/16/2024

We truly enjoyed our Spring Break Desert Explorers Program last week. The landscape of Joshua Tree provides an amazing diversity of places to explore, plants and animals to discover, and vistas to enjoy. Thanks for letting us educate your children on how to safely and respectfully interact with the local desert landscape.
Our signup for our Summer Desert Explorers is live.

We are running two week-long kids programs from June 10-14 and June 17-21. Check out our website for more details.

04/11/2024

Had a wonderful first day of our spring Desert Explorers Program. We found frogs, water, and amazing caves. Looking forward to another day of learning and exploration in the Upper Park today. We will also be running a Summer Explorers program June 10-14, and 17-21.

03/20/2024

Loving the water in the desert! Gearing up for an amazing spring filled with wildflowers and cave pools! Water feels like the pixie dust of the desert, leaving traces of magic wherever it touches. Happy spring everyone!

03/18/2024

Sometimes the most unlikely path is the best one to take. In a land of infinite rocks and boulders Joshua tree has more hidden routes and paths than any other place i know. I sometimes imagine myself in the shoes of my clients. I consider the trust that they have in me to lead them into dark holes in the rocks, tiptoe around spikey plants, and commit to unlikely paths. All the effort and uncertainty is worth it. Sometimes the road less traveled looks like crawling through water-polished granite rocks in Joshua Tree National Park.

03/15/2024

Announcing our spring break kids programming!
Desert Explorers Spring Adventure School

Tuesday, April 9, 9-3pm AND Thursday, April 11, 9-3pm

Meet 10 minutes before 9am at a designated location within Joshua Tree National Park. Location will be determined based on weather and flower blooms.

Explorers will hike up to 3 miles daily over uneven terrain, including scrambling on rocks.

Tennis shoes or hiking boots are required, rubber outsoles are recommended.

Bring helmet, clothing layers for warm and cool weather, small light-weight pack lunch, 1 liter of water, sunscreen, chapstick, hat.

What’s provided: exceptional desert adventure and natural history education with Wilderness First Responder certified guides, snacks, extra water, first aid kit, emergency clothes.

Sign up at jtreeadventures.com!

02/07/2024

Here are a few moments of post-rain desert water zen for your enjoyment. In some areas of the national park, water is forced through boulder-filled canyons. Where the water flows through the boulders the rock is incredibly smooth from eons of flash floods raging through. If you time it right one can be treated to an underground zen rock and waterfall garden to explore. One of the many hidden layers of Joshua Tree to experience. Reach out to schedule a tour for this spring!

01/30/2024

Have you ever noticed all the lines that cut through the rocks? I've had clients describe them as scars, backbones, bricks, and masonry on the rocks. Dikes are created when cracks and fractures of the rock are filled with magma which then cools into rock. Dikes in the Joshua Tree landscape help us see the amount of erosion that has occurred. Rocks that appear separate can be "connected" again with our imagination. In this picture, we can see that the rock that used to connect these two pieces together has long since eroded away. The only "clue" that they used to be one rock is the parallel dikes that cut through the area.

Do you want to learn more about the Geology of Joshua Tree? Book a tour with us this spring to experience the geology of Joshua tree by immersing yourself fully in its rocky landscape.

01/28/2024

The Wonderland of Rocks has always been my favorite place in Joshua Tree. A close-to-the-surface bedrock layer and lack of topsoil make it one of the wetter areas within the region. Recently I've been thinking of The Wonderland metaphorically as a 14-square-mile granite lunch tray piled with boulders and crags. When it rains the water trickles down the rocks but eventually hits the "lunch tray" bedrock and gets stuck. Everywhere on the landscape where the water has settled into a depression or crack there is now a tree (pinon, oak, manzanita) growing that would not otherwise be able to survive outside the water-concentrating landscape of the Wonderland.

The lunch tray metaphor also works to see why desert people both ancient and modern lived adjacent to the edge of The Wonderland. By being on the edge of the lunch tray, humans were able to take advantage of the water that flowed off the surface of the Wonderland following rain storms. Barker Dam and other reservoirs, Keys Ranch, and The Wall Street Stamp Mill are all located right on the edge of the Wonderland to capture some of the runoff. Native Americans also used the area for its water and remnants of their life can be found both on the edges of and deep within the Wonderland.

Finally, many animals also rely on the water-concentrating characteristics of the Wonderland. Big horn sheep, ringtail cats, bobcats, Coyotes, and Foxes are just a few of the desert animals I've seen within this rocky landscape.

Hope to share my love for the Wonderland of rocks with you on a tour soon!

01/05/2024

Happy New Year from Joshua Tree Adventures!!! Just finished up the holiday push. Feeling very grateful that I'm able to share my love of the desert with others. January is usually a little slower and might be one of the best times of year to come visit the park. Perfect winter weather for hiking, climbing, and exploring without holiday crowds and traffic. Hope to see you all soon! Cheers!!!

12/23/2023

Desert Explorers Winter Camp! Thank you, families for trusting us with your awesome kids!! We had so much fun!

12/09/2023

August showers bring…….December flowers!? Seeing more flowers than usual this time of year thanks to hurricane Hillary. Certainly there are some species that tend to bloom after summer monsoons. But I’m seeing a bunch of things I associate with spring. Many of the plants are such opportunists for water and optimal temperatures that I’m not surprised that they are taking advance of a mild fall. Still have some spots available for hikes, adventures, sunrise coffee and Desert explorers ( kids day camp) over the holiday’s. Hope to share our love of the desert with you and your family soon!

12/04/2023

Happy to announce that we will be running three days of Desert Explorers Camp this winter break. Our programming consists of hiking, scrambling, nature exploration, and arts and crafts all while immersed in the desert of Joshua Tree National Park.

Camp sessions are December 19 - 21, 2023. 9:00am - 3:00pm. Ages 6-10. $90 per day per child. We will have different programming for all three days if you want to sign up for all three!

Please reach out if you have any questions and we hope to lead your child on an outdoor adventure this holiday season. More information is up on our website as well.

12/01/2023

It might be a little colder this time of year, but you will be rewarded with amazing light. I've noticed the brightness of the light from summer to winter is quite different. I guess it's all a personal preference but I think that the winter light is much more picturesque.

11/28/2023

Have you ever stumbled across a cave in the desert? Joshua Tree National Park has an abundance of cave-like areas to explore. Years ago a little girl on a tour proclaimed this to be the "princess cave." Sometimes a name will randomly stick with me and it will forever be known as that. A recent guest enjoys a moment of solitude inside the princess cave.

11/27/2023

A rare overcast day. Perfect hiking weather. I love clearing/approaching storm weather in the desert. It provides the most dramatic light and skies. Book a tour this winter and perhaps be rewarded with dramatic stormy weather! (hot choco and espresso drinks if it's really cold!)

10/05/2023

It isn’t always pretty out there and sometimes nature can seem super harsh at times. Came upon this poor caterpillar that was being devastated by a parasite of some kind. Upon later research I learned that this was the work of Braconid wasp. It injects its eggs and an immune system suppressing virus into the caterpillar. The larva after they have eaten the caterpillar from the inside out they chew a hole to exit and spin their silk cocoon on the creatures back. You can see where the wasps left their cocoons if you zoom in. The whole scene was pretty grim. I happened to walk by this guy a day after I took the picture and it appeared that something had put it out of its misery as it was nowhere to be found.

08/11/2023

And that’s a wrap on the 2023 inaugural Desert Explorer Summer Camp! Thanks to all the families who trusted us to run this program for their kids! Stay tuned for more youth programming! @.

08/09/2023

Three awesome Explorers for the last session of Desert Explorers Summer Camp. Again, the weather cooperated and it’s been great fun so far!

Address

59920 Onaga Trail
Joshua Tree, CA

Telephone

+18026734385

Website

http://www.jtreeadventures.com/

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