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Mojave National Preserve closures during government shutdown

Joshua Tree National Park to remain open

Some of our favorite Sun Runner covers

Thank you, and a fond farewell

Joshua Tree National Park to temporarily close Thursday

Community pulls together to support Joshua Tree National Park during shutdown

Government shutdown impacts parks

Jazz legend Nancy Wilson has died

Monument Valley Tribal Park closed due to Satanic cult YouTube stunt

Artist Rik Livingston selected as cover artist for new edition of visitors guide

Hi-desert artist, Rik Livingston, whose work is featured in the June/July 2014 issue of The Sun Runner, has been chosen as cover artist...

New Joshua Tree Guide On It's Way

The Sun Runner's Real Route 62 Guide to the Joshua Tree Gateway Communities has been so popular with visitors at travel shows and local...

A most fond farewell to Jeannette Lyons

By Steve Brown Jack and Jeannette Lyons have served as theatre and film editors for The Sun Runner for nearly a decade. I had worked...

The Legendary Marta Becket is set to Return to the Stage

By Steve Brown The Sun Runner has received the news this week that the legendary Marta Becket, creator and operator of the Amargosa Opera...

Retired Senator Ben Knighthorse Campbell

Listen in as correspondent, Tom Wilmer visits with retired senator, Ben Knighthorse Campbell on his weekly NPR.ORG Podcast "Journeys of...

Route 66 - Motoring a Desert Treasure: Riding the Mother Road

The Sun Runner Magazine's Steve Brown and Mr. Route 66 - Jim Conkle - take a journey down Route 66 through the Mojave Desert - and...

Remembering a True Desert Treasure: Huell Howser

By Steve Brown From the February/March 2013 Desert Treasures Issue I couldn’t believe it. Huell Howser was dead. I was in shock when I...

Gawker.com picks Desert Writers Issue cover as 2012's Best Magazine Cover

OK, so we have no idea how it happened, but Hamilton Nolan on Gawker.com, has chosen our Desert Writers Issue cover as 2012's Best...

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The Sun Runner

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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