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Mojave National Preserve closures during government shutdown

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Mojave National Preserve closures during government shutdown

The Mojave National Preserve has closed the parking lot and area around the Historic Kelso Depot, where the visitor center and public...

Take a road trip with us - Route 66 through the Mojave - this September

It all began, really, when I thought it would be fun to do a road trip through the Mojave, along Route 66, with one of the world's...

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Welcome to The Sun Runner, The Journal of the Real Desert, published since January, 1995. In 2014 we began to expand our scope from the California deserts, across the Southwest with both the magazine and our television series, Southwest Stories.
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