Mojave National Preserve

Christmas 2012 Vacation - Part 1: Mojave National Preserve

On December 22, 2012, my wife and I went on a camping adventure in the Mojave National Preserve in California USA, the Grand Canyon Arizona, and Dead Horse State Park in Cottonwood, Arizona. The first day, we drove about 500 miles from San Jose to the Mojave National Preserve and car-camped at Hole In The Wall Campground near the preserve's information center. We drove the preserve the next day, driving about 100 miles in the process on Black Canyon Road, Wildhorse Canyon Road, Cedar Canyon Road, Kelso Cima Road, Kelso Dunes Road, Kelbaker Road, Interstate 40, and Essex Road. Sights included the Midhills Campground, the Kelso Depot and Beanery Deli, as well as the 700 foot high Kelso Dunes.

The Mojave National Preserve is a stunning geological area, particularly when it is not 115 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade. The National Park Service's Ranger staff is superb and give wonderful talks during the preserve's busy (cool weather) season. See the closing credits for the names of the staff that spent time with us explaining the area.

We found the campgrounds simply great and nearly empty in late December. The dirt roads had been recently plowed because of massive flash-flood damage a few weeks before - a storm dumped four inches of rain in an hour. Hence the roads were smoother and less wash-boarded (but still easily drive-able at 20 miles per hour and not requiring four-wheel drive) than I have previously seen them.

SECRET ABANDONED GHOST TOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOJAVE DESERT...

Today we explore a hidden, and some call secret ghost town in the middle of the Mojave National Preserve.

Two of the nice abandoned cabins are maintained by volunteers as public cabins anyone can use. We tried to not give out the name in order to protect them from scumbag vandals.

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Northern Mojave (DEATH VALLEY & BEYOND)

In this adventure, Brian embarks on an epic road trip through two of the world's most famous and spectacular deserts. Brian's journey takes him from the rocky hillsides of southeastern Arizona to the hot springs of Nevada. Along the way he visits Mexican border towns, old mining towns and spectacular canyons. Join him as he explores the hidden wonders of the American deserts.


The final leg of Brian's journey takes him to some of the most desolate corners of California. His first stop is the small military town of Mojave. From there he visits the impressive Red Rock Canyon, before heading to the old mining town of Randsburg. From there he continues on to Death Valley, where he encounters some unexpected surprises. After exploring some of the park's lesser known corners, Brian makes a brief stop at the region's famous Amargosa Opera House, before ending his journey at a Nevada hot spring.

Filmed December 26, 2018

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Baker , Mojave National Preserve's drive through Las Vegas

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Baker, Mojave National Preserve's drive through

We'll be driving from Barstow to Saint George, Utah and would like to take a detour, scenic drive through Mojave National Preserve. I would take I-40 from Barstow and enter the park from Kelbaker Road.
I am drive through a small range of hills and drop down to near the Kelso Dunes. Stop at the Kelso Depot/museum/park headquarters, then take Kelso Cima Road to Cima and Cima Road over to I-15.

Off Cima Road is the largest Joshua Tree forest in the world. You can also stop at the Mojave Cross picnic area.

From Baker to the Kelso Depot is more about cinder cones and lava beds. Its nice, but I don't think as nice as coming in from I-40.

Whenever I do this route(quite often) I usually continue across I-15 on Cima Road, (which changes names to Excelsior Mine Road) into another part of the preserve, then take the dirt Kingston Road into Nevada with a final stop at the PioneerSaloon in Goodsprings. That can also be accessed via the road out of Jean/I-15.

Baker is located at (35.265099, -116.074768). Baker is located in the Mojave Desert at the junction of Interstate 15 and SR 127 (Death Valley Road).

Its elevation is approximately 930 feet (283.5 m) above sea level, which is much lower than either Barstow or Las Vegas, due to its location at the southern end of the Death Valley geological depression.

The Cronese Mountains are located southwest of the community. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km²), all of it land. Summer temperatures in Baker routinely exceed 110 °F (43.3 °C); 2007 saw a record of 125 °F (51.7 °C).

Baker was established in 1929 by Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks (1857–1942), who was an American prospector, entrepreneur, and pioneer who established several towns in the Death Valley area of California, including Fairbanks Springs (1904–05) and Shoshone (1910).
The 1.6 million-acre Mojave National Preserve is only one or two hours by car from Las Vegas, but it is a world apart, offering opportunity for solitude amid sweeping desert views of the east Mojave

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United States National Preserve located in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, USA, between Interstate 15 and Interstate 40.

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Touratech-USA Exclusive Web Series - Moto Americana: Deserts

Motorcyclists and documentary filmmakers Joe Lloyd, Flora Lloyd, and Andre Corpuz venture out to explore the unpaved roads of the United States, accompanied by a team of adventure riders including, Bob Berglund, Rob Watt and Whitney Koeberle.

In this episode of 'Moto Americana: Deserts' the Curbsyde Productions team enters the Mojave National Preserve, an adventure rider's paradise with more than 1.6 million acres to explore. Riding conditions vary from hard packed dirt, to sand and volcanic lava rock. All of these roads lead to some of the most serene and untouched desert scenery in the United States.

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Mojave National Preserve Sand Dunes and Lake Havasu! Week #10 Living in our RV

Week #10 living in our RV!

We camp for free in the Mojave National Preserve at Kelso Dunes. Then we head to Lake Havasu Arizona to check out Cattail Cove State Park and do some more free camping on BLM land.

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USA #16 Mojave National Preserve - pustynne klimaty

Z Kingman ruszamy dalej na południe odwiedzić Mojave National Preserve.
Pierwsza droga okazuje się nieprzejezdna, więc cofamy się o 10 mil i ruszamy do kolejnego wjazdu na autostradzie - na Kelso.

Docieramy pod Kelso Dunes - wielką górę plażowego piasku pośrodku pustyni.
Wspinamy się na sam szczyt w ciężkim słońcu - zajmuje około półtora godziny ... potem szybkie zejście w pół godziny.
Po drodze spotykamy kilka jaszczurek.

Następnie udajemy się w kierunku Joshua Tree National Park - znajdujemy motel w miescowości 29 Palms oraz odwiedzamy Pizzę Hut.

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In the middle of California's Mojave Desert, there's more than 3-million square miles of desert sand, barren landscape, and scorched earth, known as Death Valley. But despite its extremes there is life there.
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Death Valley National Park, Mojave Desert, California, United States, North America

Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it is the lowest and driest area in North America. Death Valley holds the record for the highest recorded air temperature on Earth. Badwater Basin, located in Death Valley, is the point of the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. This point is only 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). Death Valley holds the record for the highest reliably reported temperature in the world, 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913. The previously-claimed world record air temperature, 136 °F (57.8 °C) in 'Aziziya, Libya, on September 13, 1922, has been officially deemed invalid by the World Meteorological Organization. Located near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It is located mostly in Inyo County, California. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west; the Sylvania Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km2). Death Valley shares many characteristics with other places below sea level. Death Valley is one of the best geological examples of a basin and range configuration. It lies at the southern end of a geological trough known as Walker Lane, which runs north into Oregon. The valley is bisected by a right lateral strike slip fault system, represented by the Death Valley Fault and the Furnace Creek Fault. The eastern end of the left lateral Garlock Fault intersects the Death Valley Fault. Furnace Creek and the Amargosa River flow through the valley but eventually disappear into the sands of the valley floor. Death Valley also contains salt pans. According to current geological consensus, during the middle of the Pleistocene era there was a succession of inland seas (collectively referred to as Lake Manly) located where Death Valley is today. As the area turned to desert the water evaporated, leaving behind the abundance of evaporitic salts such as common sodium salts and borax, which were subsequently exploited during the modern history of the region, primarily 1883 to 1907. Death Valley has a subtropical desert climate (Köppen: BWh), with long, extremely hot summers, mild winters, and little rainfall. As a general rule, lower altitudes tend to have higher temperatures where the sun heats the ground and that heat is then radiated upward, but as the air begins to rise it is trapped by the surrounding elevation and the weight of the air (essentially the atmospheric pressure) above it. The atmospheric pressure is higher at very low altitudes than it is under the same conditions at sea level because there is more air (more distance) between the ground and the top of the atmosphere. This pressure traps the heat near the ground, and also creates wind currents that circulate very hot air, thereby distributing the heat to all areas, regardless of shade and other factors. This process is especially important in Death Valley as it provides its specific climate and geography. The valley is surrounded by mountains, while its surface is mostly flat and devoid of plants, and of which a high percentage of the sun's heat is able to reach the ground, absorbed by soil and rock. When air at ground level is heated, it begins to rise, moving up past steep high mountain ranges, which then cools slightly, sinking back down towards the valley more compressed. This air is then reheated by the sun to a higher temperature, moving up the mountain again, whereby the air moves up and down in a circular motion in cycles, similar to how a convection oven works. This superheated air increases ground temperature markedly, forming the hot wind currents that are trapped by atmospheric pressure and mountains, thus stays mostly within the valley. Such hot wind currents contribute to perpetual drought-like conditions in Death Valley and prevent much cloud formation to pass through the confines of the valley, where precipitation is often in the form of a virga. Death Valley holds temperature records because it has an unusually high number of factors that lead to high atmospheric temperatures. The depth and shape of Death Valley influence its summer temperatures.

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Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. It is one of the hottest places in the world at the height of summertime along with deserts in Africa and in the Middle East.

Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of the lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. This point is 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). Death Valley's Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably recorded air temperature in the world, 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913. This has been contested by other weather experts.

Located near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It is located mostly in Inyo County, California. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west; the Sylvania Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km2). The highest point in Death Valley itself is Telescope Peak in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m).