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# Yucca Valley
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/yucca-valley/
- Published: 2007-06-21T17:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-06T10:53:10.000Z
- Description: Yucca Valley, California is located in the Mojave Desert not far from Palm Springs. I had a fun time just driving around and taking some photos left and right.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

Yucca Valley, California is located in the Mojave Desert not far from Palm Springs. It is bordered to the west by the San Bernardino Mountains and to the south by the Joshua Tree National Park. I had originally planned to spend the day in Joshua Tree National Park, but at the last minute I decided to spend the morning in Palm Springs and the afternoon in the area around Yucca Valley.

![Yucca Valley](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-1.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-7.jpg)

I like those rows of mailboxes

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-3.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-4.jpg)

How did it get there?

![Yucca Valley, California](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-9.jpg)

The landscape is beautiful. Even so I wonder why people choose to live here, where they work and so on.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-2.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-5.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-6.jpg)

![Joshua Tree](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-13.jpg)

A Joshua Tree

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-11.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-10.jpg)

A few years earlier wildfires raged through the area

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-12.jpg)

A road near Pioneertown, California

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-16.jpg)

How long does it take for cans to decompose? I guess the answer is more likely to be in the hundreds of thousands of years than in thousands of years.

![Yucca Valley, California](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/09/yucca-valley-8.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2023/01/yucca-valley-17.jpg)

Not a road to nowhere but the 247 to Barstow

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