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How to Enjoy the Beautiful, Remote High Desert of Joshua Tree Maxwell Williams © Schroptschop/Getty
Even as interest in national parks has exploded and the area has become a destination for artists and musicians, somehow, Joshua Tree still feels like a hidden getaway. It’s got that rugged, High Desert charm mixed with a mystical vibe. Just 128 miles East of Los Angeles up into the high elevations of the Mojave Desert, J-Tree is the kind of place where you can plan to go for a weekend and end up buying a cabin. That’s how it happens for most of the arty types who live out there, like the late Noah Purifoy, who built an impressive sculpture garden, or Andrea Zittel, who has been doing the mostly annual art event High Desert Test Sites since 2002.
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Now listed on Airbnb for $2,661 a night, the Invisible House includes a 100-foot indoor pool. The design was inspired by Mies van der Rohe skyscrapers and the monoliths of Stanley Kubrick movies.
As creatives seek an escape from the big city, prices jump and cutting-edge architecture rises in the High Desert area: Seventy-five percent of my clients are investors from L.A.
During the golden age of Westerns, film crews would often make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to the Morongo Basin in San Bernardino County to shoot in the pristine, rugged desert. In 1946, actor Dick Curtis decided to monetize the location and banded with movie cowboys Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to create a wild West film location and settlement that they named Pioneertown.