What It’s Like To Camp In Joshua Tree

From rats and wind to hiking and exploring, here’s our experience of camping in the desert.

The view of the sunset from our tent at Cottonwood Campground in Joshua Tree. (Photo: Crissi Langwell)

Last weekend, my husband and I drove ten hours from our Northern California home to Joshua Tree in Southern California for a weekend camping trip. We’d booked our site back in November, planning this as a research trip for a scene I’m writing in my…