Welcome

Welcome to The Sun Runner Magazine’s Joshua Tree Gateway Communities Visitor Guide website. This guide is a brief introduction to the communities located down California’s Route 62 along the northern border of, and the primary entrances to, Joshua Tree National Park.

We hope you’ll pay us a visit and experience our unique mix of natural beauty, hi-desert arts and culture, Old West ambience, history, and wide open vistas that makes our home so welcoming.

While our communities are in the desert, many people who aren’t familiar with deserts find themselves surprised by the landscape and the variety of plant and animal life found here. Our desert isn’t comprised of endless barren sand dunes stretching to the horizon (though you can climb the “singing” Kelso Dunes in the nearby Mojave National Preserve if you’d like—they’re a spectacular spot to take in a dramatic Mojave sunset). Instead, it’s a land filled with variety, boundless beauty, seasonal changes, endless opportunities for exploration and adventure, inviting vistas, and deep night skies to recharge the spirit and reconnect the imagination.

So, whether you are looking to hike, camp, rock climb, horseback ride, off-road, road trip, gallery crawl, explore, reinvigorate, stargaze, or just do nothing at all but play lizard and soak in some warming rays by the pool, you’ll feel right at home here.

The 2017 edition of our print & digital Visitor Guide includes our new Sand to Snow and Mojave Trails national monuments. We’re pleased to now offer this new Visitor Guide website where you can find even more information on our area, along with itineraries, day trips, nearby attractions, and lots of fun from our part of the desert. I hope you enjoy it—and put it to use.

Thanks for joining us!

– Steve Brown Publisher