Discover the Mojave Desert's location, unique climate, fascinating geology, and iconic Joshua trees. Explore facts about North America's lowest and hottest point, Death Valley.

Get away from it all and enjoy easy hikes, nature, and history in an unexpected place: the Desert National Wildlife Refuge ...

To stop. This is the Mojave National Preserve — 1.6 million acres of desert made strange and sacred by lava flows, fossil beds, abandoned mines, creosote, Joshua trees.

2. A desert tortoise hatchling at the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site, where vulnerable tortoises are raised inside the vast Marine Corps base. 3.