Joshua Tree Full-Day Private Hiking Tour from Palm Springs

You step out of an air-conditioned van and the desert announces itself in a single, dry breath: gnarled Joshua trunks cut sharp silhouettes against an enormous blue sky, and granite boulders pile up like the remains of something tectonic and deliberate. Your guide folds a park map and points to the day’s options—Lost Palms Oasis, a ridge scramble up Mastodon Peak, a labyrinth of balancing rocks near Jumbo Rocks—then adjusts the route to the group’s pace. The day becomes a series of purposeful stops, each with a geological anecdote, a botanical eye-opener, and, if you’re lucky, an animal track telling the story of a night in the desert.