Step into California’s eerie desert where the ground twists, the sky stretches, and nothing looks like it belongs on this ...

Walk and hike For runners and walkers, a popular trail full of colorful plants — and even the occasional darting of a lizard on the trail — is the Pat O’Rourke Memorial Trail in West El Paso.

Taking a walk in desert canyon country. By Ellen Alperstein | November 28, 2016 4:56 PM. After it had dumped on L.A., rain moved to the Coachella Valley in more modest amounts on successive Sundays, ...

On our long walk through the Escalante region of southern Utah, my friend Brian asked what made this a “desert.” He pointed to lush green cottonwood trees taking root in the cool floodplain.

Desert Sun reporter Sherry Barkas covers the cities of La Quinta, Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert. She can be reached at sherry.barkas@thedesertsun.com or (760) 778-4694. Follow her on ...

Every spring, people go into the desert to look for them, cameras ready and expectations high. But wildflowers need rain, and because we're in the middle of a long drought, this spring probably ...

When the Desert AIDS Walk began in 1989, a positive diagnosis was a death sentence. Today, DAP Health treats many long-term survivors who lead full and healthy lives.

Sandra and Carlos walk through the desert each day by choice, feeling connected to the ground beneath and the sky above. In Brooklyn I’d seen a mother reprimand her son for stopping to pick up ...