Sandboarding and desert adventures in North America.
Municipalities located in the "High Desert", a region located in the western Mojave desert in southern California, are preparing for Christmas 2022 with celebrations and parades, but will perhaps decorate palm trees instead of pines and firs. A "white" Christmas is unlikely in the desert, but expect holiday vibes with…
Chicago-born visual artist Eileen Muza ditched her old life and moved to Cisco, a then-abandoned ghost town in the High Desert of Utah, of which she became the sole resident in 2015. Her goal? To rebuild the abandoned town and turn Cisco into a community of artists. When she was…
American billionaire Marc Lore, former CEO of Walmart, has announced a utopian project for the creation of Telosa, a sustainable $400 billion metropolis he hopes to create in the American desert. The ambitious proposal, which should cover about 106 square kilometers, will accommodate 5 million people and promises an ecological…
Big plans have been announced for the community of Desert Color in St. George, Utah. The 3.400 acre masterplanned community welcomed its first residents in December 2019 and has been expanding ever since. A new development project will bring a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel-resort to Desert Color, local news report.…
Hundreds of people are forced to set camp in the Mojave desert in response to the current housing crisis in Los Angeles County, VICE News reports. Over 200 people have been asked to leave the city limits for the open desert, where they often end up struggling with extreme heat,…
Much of the state of Texas is crossed by the eastern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, with vast fields of sand dunes extending about 200 miles south of Monahans westward into New Mexico. Most of these dunes are not active (meaning they are now covered by vegetation with tree roots…
There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. The California Deserts have unique ecosystems and habitats, a sociocultural and historical collection of "Old West" legends, districts and communities, which also form a popular tourist region of dramatic natural features and…
Washington state has very different landscapes to offer including deserts, but also beaches, forests, mountains, volcanoes, and several coastal islands. The state is separated by the the Cascade Mountains which determine what kind of climate you are going to find: wet areas filled with pineforests to the west; dry, arid…
Mojave National Preserve is an area of immense desert landscapes in southeastern California. It is federally protected as a National Preserve and is part of the National Park System. Mojave National Preserve's enormous desert territories include elements of three of the four major North American deserts: the Mojave, Great Basin,…
Where can you experience the desert in Nevada and around Las Vegas? Travel guide to Nevada's best canyons and desert destinations.