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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Travel
Rachel Schnalzer

Want a desert experience that’s not Joshua Tree? Here are 3

This is not about Joshua Tree, California.

That’s not to say the trendy desert town isn’t worth visiting — it absolutely is!

But its skyrocketing popularity carries with it an unpleasant side. “We don’t want it to become Tulum,” one Joshua Tree tourist told my colleague Christopher Reynolds earlier this year, referring to the Mexican beach town overwhelmed by upscale tourists.

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