Near Darwin in Inyo County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)

Joshua Tree

Photographed By Craig Baker, March 29, 2022

1. Joshua Tree Marker

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Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Notable Places.

Location. 36° 19.851′ N, 117° 44.715′ W. Marker is near Darwin, California, in Inyo County. Marker can be reached from California Route 190, 8.2 miles south of California Route 136, on the right when traveling south. Located ¼ mile south of the highway. There is a rough dirt road that is difficult to see from the highway. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Lone Pine CA 93545, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 15 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Darwin (approx. 4.2 miles away); Highway History (approx. 8.1 miles away); Star Wars Canyon (approx. 10.9 miles away); Padre Crowley Point (approx. 11 miles away); Cerro Gordo (approx. 12.7 miles away); Keeler (approx. 13 miles away); Keeler Then to Now (approx. 13.1 miles away); Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program (approx. 14½ miles away).

Also see . . . Just Where is U2’s Joshua Tree?

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. On that second day of shooting as the band and Corbijn drove along California State Route 190 (the highway that bisects Death Valley National Park from west to east) about 21 km (13 mi) southeast of the village of Keeler just before the park’s west gate the group spotted a lone Joshua tree in the desert a short distance south of the road – unusual, as Joshua trees usually grow in groves. This would be the iconic tree that graced the album cover, although oddly enough not on the front of album, which instead used a shot of the band standing in front of Death Valley’s Zabriskie Point (itself a famous location in rock music history thanks to the Pink Floyd/Jerry Garcia-based soundtrack for the eponymous 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni film). (Submitted on March 24, 2014, by Michael Kindig of Elk Grove, California.)