Afton Canyon: Grand Canyon of the Mojave Check out this desert highlight on the way to Vegas. Author. Albert Barlow. Publish Date. Nov. 4, 2013. Misadventures. Off the Beaten Path. Outdoors.

This is the Mojave National Preserve — 1.6 million acres of desert made strange and sacred by lava flows, fossil beds, abandoned mines, creosote, Joshua trees.

Every so often you come across somewhere close to home that’s so magnificent it stops you in your tracks, leaving you wide-eyed and slack-jawed. Red Rock Canyon State Park — where the ...

I had wanted to drive the Mojave Road for years but was intimidated by the obstacles and the prospect of getting lost in one of the remotest spots in California. Last spring I was ready.