Head to this getaway in the California desert for a vacation full of artsy views, desert sun, and vintage cultural finds.

The 2nd Annual East Mojave Trek, a four-day event, will begin April 24 at the Goffs Schoolhouse. The event, hosted by the California Four Wheel Drive Association and Mojave Desert Heritage and ...

Some believe the desert is silent. They picture a vast mute nothing, hot enough to grill a steak on your vehicle’s hood and dry enough to chap your soul. They think of scorched plains, scrubby plants ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in tortoise ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

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