This could be the perfect hike for a four-year-old. In fact, it was the perfect hike for three four-year-olds (friends of our four-year-old, Catherine) and our seven-month-old twins. We left Pasadena at 7am on a recent Saturday and were at the 49 Palms Oasis trailhead by 9:30am. This trailhead is accessed from outside the park […]

Joshua Tree has to be the nearest national park to a major US city that is known to the fewest people. Just an hour and half from our home in Pasadena, Joshua Tree is a winter-only kind of place due to the extreme Summer heat in the Mojave Desert. Uncrowded beauty Its seasonality means it […]