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Twentynine Palms, home of Joshua Tree National Park, 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 and Mojave National Preserve.
There are many things to see and do in 29 Palms and surrounding desert area, whether vacation, snowbird, or just passing through. The Great Mojave 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.
Our climate and seasons provide 330 clear sky and sunshine days per year: 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 and Park Headquarters, 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, fifty-seven miles East of Palm Springs. The community is situated in the Morongo Basin portion of the San Bernardino County Mojave Desert.
We hope you have a chance to visit our unique and beautiful city and learn that the livable City of Twentynine Palms, relaxed, soft and friendly, is truly a gateway and beautiful desert oasis for body, mind and spirit.
Click any of the links below for more information about many of the great destinations in and near the Twentynine Palms area.
Mojave Desert National Preserve
Historic Gold Park Mining District
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Travelers on Amboy Road in California's Bullion Mountains stop and stare at the light display swirling across the sky, which is what Helena Bongartz wants.
For a little more than a year, Bongartz has been putting on the ethereal show for anyone driving, The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., reported. Every weekend she makes the 30-mile trek -- weather permitting -- from her Wonder Valley home to an abandoned house near Bristol Lake so she can synchronize projectors that cast the colors, patterns and abstract imagery on the outside of the building.
A photographer, Bongartz said she began creating sculptures from pieces of large plastic bottles. She photographed them then created animated videos that, generations later, became the abstracts projected on the building, the newspaper said.
Source: Post Chronicle
Image: PE
Tags: California | Lightshow