Joshua Tree's stargazing festival offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience to view constellations, planets, and the Milky Way. The Night Sky Festival takes place in October and includes telescope ...

It’s no secret that one of the best stargazing spots in Southern California is Joshua Tree ... at least one tree above the ridgeline, so the silhouette can contrast the night sky.

Donate now. Joshua Tree National Park has long been lauded for its views of the starry night sky—now it's got the official certification to go along with it. As reported at the L.A. Times ...

Joshua Tree, which harbors some of the darkest night skies in the United States, had been certified as the 10 th International Dark Sky Park in the U.S. National Park system. Others include Death ...

THERE ARE SEVERAL PARTS... to this party, including an Astronomy Lecture Series, Night Sky Light Painting at Cap Rock, and Astrophotography at Sky's the Limit Observatory. Tickets are a la carte ...

From hiking and biking to offbeat art and drive-in movies, the California desert park and its surroundings offer plenty of ...

“It’s important to hold onto that magic of the night sky,” said Joshua Tree National Park ranger Pam Tripp. “When I look up there and I look at the stars through a telescope, even though I ...

California’s desert parks provide some of the best opportunities to see the night sky as our distant ancestors did—a rich tapestry of stars, undiminished by the artificial light of civilization.

DIVING INTO THE MILKY WAY? Most days, we're struggling to simply pinpoint where the dense and creamy overhead band of galactic wonder is in the sky we're observing. And there's no need to parse ...