Regional Overview

Twentynine Palms, home of Joshua Tree National Park Headquarters, is a city with something for everyone, with pristine air, beautiful natural surroundings, and a small town family lifestyle. The community takes pride in sharing the area's history, culture, lustrous starlit skies, and breathtaking sunsets and sunrises. Beyond the last of the traffic lights, here in the vast and palpable silence, we are the gateway to scenic Mojave Desert, the great California Outback, Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve.

There are many things to see and do in Twentynine Palms and the surrounding desert area, whether you are a vacationer, snowbird, or just passing through. The Joshua Tree National Park alone offers a variety of recreational activities, from hiking, camping, bird watching, bicycling, and rock climbing, to participating in the many Ranger-led programs or touring historic sites like the Desert Queen Ranch. 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 Tour or learn more about the city and our pioneer history at the Old Schoolhouse Museum. Many art galleries exhibit the works of local artists in our art colony, and no tour would be complete without viewing our famous Oasis of Murals. It is a photographer’s paradise: bring your camera and film, or brushes, oils, sketchbook, and watercolors. Bring your telescope to enjoy the greatest stars on earth!

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 offers a skilled labor force, a supportive business climate, clear skies, beautiful natural surroundings, desert and mountain vistas, and a family lifestyle. 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.

We hope you have a chance to visit our unique and beautiful city and learn that the livable City of Twentynine Palms, relaxed and friendly, is truly a gateway to the California Outback and a beautiful desert oasis for body, mind, and spirit.

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