within walking distance you will be able to find: culture, lustrous starlit skies, and breathtaking sunsets and sunrises.  
Joshua Tree National Park offers a variety of recreational activities from hiking, camping, bird watching, bicycling, and rock climbing The great Mojave National Preserve linking Joshua Tree and Death Valley national parks is known internationally for its natural beauty, vistas, geology, botany, zoology, night sky, and unique environment. Discover and explore our spectacular cactus and wildflower displays, snowy mountains, beautiful sand dunes, petroglyphs, and ghost mines.
 
In the City of Twentynine Palms, you’ll find opportunities for relaxing, dining, lodging, camping, hiking, golf, shopping, art and entertainment. Book a guided tour or learn more about the city and our pioneer history at the Old Schoolhouse Museum. Many art galleries exhibit the works of the local artists in our art colony, and no tour would be complete without viewing our famous Oasis of Murals.

Spend the evening at a real American drive-in movie, enjoy a stage play at the community theatre, or relax in our coffee shops and fine restaurants. Our climate and seasons provide 330 days per year of clear skies and sunshine: it is a landscape of incomparable light. You will find yourself slowing down and breathing freely, filling your senses with the great quiet, here in the ochre sands and sienna earth surrounded by blue skies and purple mountain majesty.
 
Home of Joshua Tree National Park Headquarters and Oasis Visitor Center, proud host of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, the world's largest Marine Base, and with renowned world class murals and artists, The city is located between Interstate 15 and 10 on State Highway 62, approximately 50 miles northeast of Palm Springs. The community is situated in the Mojave Desert, in the Morongo Basin portion of San Bernardino County.