The Mojave National Preserve is an easy drive of about 2 hours from Joshua Tree National Park. It’s particularly convenient in the Winter, when you can shoot sunset in Joshua and still get to Mojave in time to get a decent amount of sleep before sunrise. Camping isn’t allowed a the main parking area at Kelso Dunes, but there’s an area where primitive camping is allowed by a grove of trees about .8 mile beyond and to the right.
After sunrise on the dunes I stopped at the historic Kelso train station, explored an abandoned house nearby, then moved on to catch the 1:30 tour of the Mitchell Caverns. A state park within the national preserve, Mitchell Caverns is the first cave system I’ve visited that allows tripods.
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