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Cholla Cactus Garden Nature Trail - Joshua Tree National Park
Cholla Cactus Garden Nature Trail
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Cacti: Cholla Cactus Garden
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    • Erin74
  • By Erin74 on February 25, 2004
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    • A cactus in the Cholla Cactus Garden - Joshua Tree National Park
    A cactus in the Cholla
    Cactus Garden
    by Erin74
    Head toward the eastern section of Joshua Tree National Park and you'll find the Cholla Cactus Garden. These cacti are quite common in the eastern Colorado Desert portion of the park and tend to grow in big clumps. The Cholla Cactus Garden is just one such gathering of cacti.

    From a distance, these impressive cacti look almost fuzzy. Up close, their long spines are definitely not touchable. Their impressive size and lovely green & brown colors make for great photos, though. At the Cactus Garden, you can stoll along a marked path and admire all the cacti.

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  • Directions: Off of Pinto Basin Road. Follow your map from either the Oasis Visitors Center or the Cottonwood Visitors Center.
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    Cacti: Cholla Cactus garden
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    • Jim_Eliason
  • Updated By Jim_Eliason on January 3, 2006
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    • Cholla Garden - Joshua Tree National Park
    Cholla Garden
    by Jim_Eliason
    The southeast portion of the park is at a lower elevation than the northwest and is therefore hotter and drier. Here the Joshua tree's give way to other desert plants such as this concentration of Cholla plants

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  • Phone: 760-367-5500
  • Website: http://www.nps.gov/jotr
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    Cacti: Cholla Cactus Garden
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    • Alice-Kees
  • Updated By Alice-Kees on September 24, 2003
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    • Cholla cactuses - Joshua Tree National Park
    Cholla cactuses
    by Alice-Kees
    In the eastern part of Joshua Tree NP you will come across the Cholla Cactus Garden. To have a better look at these cactus species you may follow one of the parks 12 nature trails.

    From far away, the cactuses look soft and touchable, but all I can say is that these plants do not belong to the cactus family for nothing...

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    Cacti: The cholla cactus garden
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    • zrim
  • By zrim on May 6, 2003
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    • lots of cholla to jump out and bite you - Joshua Tree National Park
    lots of cholla to jump out and
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    by zrim
    These fuzzy cacti look as if they belong in an episode of star trek. They are fascinating, but very painful. This species is sometimes known as the jumping cholla because the little balls of spines seem to leap from the cactus to the unsuspecting hiker. I have first-hand experience with the jumping cholla (and yes it was very painful) but that will have to wait until I make my Anza-Borrego Desert page.

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    Cacti: Stop
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    • cobrioc
  • By cobrioc on October 23, 2002
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    • Cacti - Joshua Tree National Park
    by cobrioc
    It's a fitting end to a spectacular journey. As the shadows of the gorge grow larger and the sunlight recedes beyond the Hexie Mountains to the west, the head feels abit light but the spirits are still soaring. You realize you've journeyed deep into the heart of lightness. And you're better for it. STOP

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    Cacti: Cholla Cactus Garden
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    • Andraf
  • Updated By Andraf on May 3, 2005
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    • Cholla cactus garden, Joshua Tree NP - Joshua Tree National Park
    Cholla cactus garden, Joshua
    Tree NP
    by Andraf
    In the eastern part of park, which is the Colorado Desert, the most widespread plant is the creosote bush but in a few areas you'll be able to see the cholla cactus. The Cholla Cactus Garden is one of these areas where the chollas dominate the landscape due to favorable goundwater conditions. A 1/4 mile loop trail winds through the patches of chollas. You can pick up an instructional leaflet near the entrance ($0.25 donation suggested). You are instructed not to touch the cacti (and I'm sure a lot of people try to hug them) which look fuzzy and inviting - their common name is teddy bear cholla - but they can surely sting. The leaftlet talks about plants and animals of the desert. One interesting and well-adapted little fellow is the desert wood rat which makes its home among the cholla cactus joints.

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  • Address: 20 miles north of Cottonwood Visitor Center
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    Cacti: Look at the Cacti
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    • Basaic
  • By Basaic on November 2, 2007
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    • Cactus - Joshua Tree National Park
    Cactus
    by Basaic
    In addition to the Joshua Trees, this part of the Mojave Desert has various types of cacti.

  • Address: 74485 National Park Drive Twentynine Palms, CA
  • Phone: (760) 367-5500
  • Directions: Just north of Interstate 10 between LA and Arizona.
  • Website: http://www.nps.gov/jotr/
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    Cacti: Ocotillo Patch
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    • Andraf
  • Updated By Andraf on May 3, 2005
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    • Ocotillo, Joshua Tree NP - Joshua Tree National Park
    Ocotillo, Joshua Tree NP
    by Andraf
    About 1.5 miles farther east from cholla cactus garden you'll find the the Ocotillo Patch (which is actually nothing more than a patch). The Ocotillo is a tall shurb, also a member of the Colorado desert flora. I thought it looked interesting and worth the short stop.

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    Cacti: Cholla cactus.
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  • Updated By dutch_anna on September 12, 2002
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    • cholla cactus - Joshua Tree National Park
    cholla cactus
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    Cacti: A blooming cholla
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  • Updated By rebibi on August 25, 2002
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    • Cacti - Joshua Tree National Park
    by rebibi
    A blooming cholla

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