A garden of prickly delights

To celebrate the last day of National Park Week we're at the gorgeous Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California, about a three-hour drive from Los Angeles. This 1,235-square-mile (3,199-square-kilometre) stretch of land where the Mojave and Colorado Deserts converge was declared a national monument in 1936, then was redesignated a park in 1994. The status protects a wide variety of plant and animal life, including the titular Joshua tree, which can be found growing mostly in the hills on the Mojave side of the park.
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