Hard to believe that a national park is less than four hours from Los Angeles. From the beach to the desert to the mountains, ...

Chuckwalla National Monument spans roughly 710,000 acres where the Mojave and the Sonoran desert ... stands at the entrance of Ladder Canyon Trail at Chuckwalla National Monument.

expanding national parks and birthing the Mojave Trails National Monument — a rare reversal of fortune for the American desert. Unlike many conservationists, Myers was uninterested in wilderness ...

Myers also spearheaded the fight to create the 154,000-acre Sand to Snow National Monument, which extends ... landscapes from Southern California’s Mojave Desert to Northern California’s ...

Avi Kwa Ame National Monument preserves more than 500,000 acres of the Mojave Desert’s rugged peaks and dry washes ... and 50 miles of the Bradshaw Trail, a historic route first used by Indigenous ...

For now, Chuckwalla — named after a wide-bellied lizard — remains protected from new development and critical mineral mining as a national monument. Chuckwalla National Monument spans roughly 710,000 ...