To celebrate the final weekend of National Park Week, we"re at Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California, about a three-hour drive from Los Angeles. This 1,235-square-mile stretch of land where the Mojave and Colorado Deserts converge was declared a national monument in 1936, then was redesignated a national park in 1994. That status protects a wide variety of plant and animal life, including the eponymous Joshua tree, which can be found growing mostly in the hills on the Mojave side of the park.
A garden of prickly delights
Today in History
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Ode to the sun
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Celebrating Yi Peng
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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
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Ice and Snow Sailing World Championships
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International Tiger Day
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World Hello Day
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Winter solstice
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Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
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Hiking the High Trestle Trail
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Holi festival
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Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico
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Coral Reef Awareness Week
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Peña Roya beech forest, Moncayo Natural Park, Aragon, Spain
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Saint Nicholas Day in Verbier, Switzerland
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Native American Heritage Day
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The (Inca) empire strikes back
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The Twin Cities celebrate Pride
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Let’s have a ball
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SantaPark, Lapland, Finland
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Glowworm caves in Australia
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Khao Sok National Park in Thailand
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Tower Bridge, London, England
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