![]() Wear a wide brimmed hat, good hiking shoes or sneakers, sun tan lotion, and as always bring a lot of water (turn around when you’re halfway through your water supply, no matter what!).Ĭheck out some of our other trail guides for North View Trail, Fortynine Palms Oasis, and Willow Hole. The hike at Arch Rock is an easy one and good for all experience levels. The hike was easy, beautiful forests and views of the ocean. This is a beautiful hike We backpacked to the coastal camp. The trail head is past a few campsites near campsite #9. Recommend not going on the right hand trail to observe Arch Rock because of dead wood. Enter the campground and turn left when you arrive at the bathroom. Continue down Pinto Basin Rd for about 2.7 miles and turn left into White Tank Campground Rd (We almost always drive by it since the sign doesn’t give you much heads up!). Use the north entrance of the park in Twentynine Palms and drive about 4.9 miles down Park Blvd, and take a slight left at Pinto Basin Rd. Takes about 20 minutes to hike, but you can spend an hour exploring the rocks. If you do decide to scramble off-trail, make sure to remember the path that you came from so you don’t get lost! One easy way to remember the direction that you’ve been hiking is that the lichen (in a beautiful bright yellow/green) predominantly grows on the northern face of the rocks.Ġ.5 mile loop. From here, you can either head back down the path, or you can start scrambling through the rock crevices-the most surreal part of the adventure. This is a great place to have a picnic and look out at the rock formations (just remember to pack out everything you’ve brought in). About halfway down the trail, you come across an arch around 30 feet wide that you can easily climb up to and sit under for the shade. ![]() You’ll come across many beautiful rock formations that jut out of the earth alongside of the Joshua Tree’s cousin, the Yucca plant. Once you’ve parked your car at the trail head, walk Arch Rock Trail along white tank granite. You can do the hike in about 20 minutes, or you can scramble around in the rocks for as long as you’d like! With that in mind comes a note of CAUTION: This is an unmarked trail, not registered on any official map of Red River Gorge Geological Area. The trail is located at White Tank Campground which is also one of our favorite campsites in Joshua Tree National Park. The trail itself is only a 0.5 mile hike and is clearly marked, which allows us to get some fresh air while not being out in the heat of the day for too long. Arch Rock Trail in Joshua Tree National Park is a great short hike and one of our most frequent hikes in the summer season due to its short length and infinite beauty.
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