Welcome to Just Ahead’s Joshua Tree Trip Planner—our guide to everything you need to know to plan your trip to Joshua Tree National Park. Click here to see the complete series, and be sure to download our Just Ahead smartphone audio tour of Joshua Tree before you head to the park.
What do you need to know to plan a trip to Joshua Tree National Park? We happen to be experts on this topic, as we’ve been visiting the park regularly for decades. And we’ve been venturing out there a lot lately to research, write, test, and double-check our Just Ahead tour of Joshua Tree National Park.
Joshua Tree is easy to get to, easy to drive through, and always a pleasure to visit, especially with Just Ahead’s narrated audio tour playing on your smartphone.
But it is also a remote desert area. That’s what makes it a compelling place to visit. But at the same time, a visit to Joshua Tree requires smart planning. So it helps to have an insider’s take on trip preparation, where to stay, where to camp, and so on.
A visit to rugged, wild Joshua Tree National Park requires some simple advance planning. NPS photo/Robb Hannawacker
We’ve pulled together our best Joshua Tree trip-planning strategies into a series of posts that together make up Just Ahead’s Joshua Tree Trip Planner.
Just Ahead’s Joshua Tree Trip Planner anticipates your questions (all of which we’ve asked many times ourselves) and provides answers as well as links to more information. These include:
- When Should I Visit Joshua Tree?
- How Much Time Should I Spend in Joshua Tree?
- How Do I Prepare for a Trip to Joshua Tree?
- How Do I Get to Joshua Tree?
- Where Should I Camp in Joshua Tree?
- Where Should I Stay Near Joshua Tree? (all about nearby lodging)
- What Are the 10 Best Sights in Joshua Tree?
To see the complete Joshua Tree Trip Planner series, click here.