Hidden Valley Campground is an extremely popular destination for campers, especially among climbers. The first-serve campsites provide easy access to popular climbing locations like Real Hidden Valley ...

Cory McPherson and son Benjamin roast a marshmallow Wednesday in the Hidden Valley Campground at Joshua Tree National Park. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times) This park’s reopening has set off ...

Leave Joshua Tree’s larger, more cramped campgrounds to the rock climbers who clamber here. With 39 sites scattered around towering boulders, Hidden Valley Campground is a removed alternative that’s ...

Spectacular granite formations, combined with forests of bizarrely shaped desert plants, make Joshua Tree National Park a rock star. Climbers from around the world scramble across its boulder fields ...

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK — This park’s reopening has set off a race to the desert among hundreds of hikers, climbers and adventure-starved families rushing to grab up the park’s 520 camping spots ...