In our series Pushing the Limits, we learn about a California farmer who has become one of the world's top off-road racers.

Created by accident and transformed by time, the Salton Sea is one of California’s most surreal landscapes. In this one-day ...

For around 10 days each year, motorsport fans descend on Johnson Valley in such numbers that this little corner of the California desert gains ... and stunning off-road builds.

California’s vast desert region is a land of hidden oases ... After all that hiking and adventuring on the open road, you’ll have earned a spa treatment or two!

With natural disasters plaguing the iconic Pacific Coast Highway, a local recommends Highway 395—for alpine lakes, cozy cafes ...

California’s literature of the desert begins in many ways with Austin, who was born in Illinois and moved west at 20, in 1888. “She was a beautiful writer about a place people had written off ...

Joshua trees line a road through Joshua Tree National ... human and natural life have largely collapsed in California City. The desert eternally beckons and intrudes. The Matterns, who eventually ...

By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic If you’ve driven through the vast expanse of the California desert ... in the opening minutes of Desert Road, is not a warning to be taken lightly.