Joshua Tree National Park

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• YUCCA The plant family the Joshua tree really belongs to.
• MOJAVE The higher, cooler desert in the park, where the Joshua trees grow.
• COLORADO The lower, hotter desert that meets the Mojave inside the park.
• CHOLLA The fuzzy-looking cactus whose joints stick to your pant leg.
• GRANITE The pale rock that erosion piled into giant climbing boulders here.
• OASIS A wet, palm-filled spot in the desert, like the one at Cottonwood Spring.
• COYOTE A wild desert dog you might hear yipping at night.
• CAHUILLA One of the Native peoples whose homelands include this desert.
• STARS What you can see so many of here that the park is a Dark Sky Park.
• RANGER The person in the green and gray uniform who can sign your Junior booklet.
• BIGHORN Wild desert sheep with curling horns that climb the park's rocky slopes.
• TORTOISE A slow reptile that digs burrows to escape the desert heat. See one and freeze, don't touch.
• CLIMBING The park has more than 8,000 routes up its boulders, which is why so many people come to scramble the rocks.
• HOYT Minerva Hoyt loved desert plants so much she helped get the park protected forever.
• KEYS A high overlook where you can spot the Salton Sea and the San Andreas Fault below.