Artists like Gram Parsons, Keith Richards, Chris Hillman, and many more have been drawn to the High Desert’s community of creatives congregated in a psychedelic-like atmosphere without the often soul-sucking population density of the big city.
Betty Pond is pictured at the Cholla Cactus Garden which is located at the merger of the upper Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert in Joshua Tree National Park. Submitted photos. I was asked “Why on earth would you want to go to Joshua Tree National Park? It’s nothing but desert and rocks.” We
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Gram Parsons’ death, Joshua Tree and National Park Service officials are bracing for an influx of fans. So is the famed Joshua Tree Inn.