One moment
Deserts
Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum
A view worth the climb · Joshua Tree, United States
Photo: StaceyEOB · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.6★Rating
1,077Reviews
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Oct–May bestBest time
The experience
Ten acres of large-scale sculptures built from scavenged junk on the high-desert sand — the last 15 years of assemblage master Noah Purifoy's life. Free, unstaffed, open sunrise to sunset.
The end of a dirt road with no gate, no docents, no highway signage.
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It's only worth the detour Oct–May best. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Joshua Tree, United States · Joshua Tree, California. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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