Mojave Trails National Monument

Designated in 2016, Mojave Trails National Monument is located inside the vast Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California. Mojave Trails is a fairly new national monument, which was created along with two other nearby national monuments, Sand to Snow and Castle Mountains. It’s eastern boundary is just east of Newberry Springs.

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Coverage

The monument covers a large swath of Mojave Desert, 1.6 million acres to be exact, just south of the existing Mojave National Preserve, and north of Joshua Tree National Park. It also incorporates several existing wilderness areas.

Unlike other national monuments, the area here is almost totally undeveloped, which was one of the reasons for creating it. With the talk of largescale solar power plants and windfarms, desert activists and preservationists wanted to take action before this swath of land was used for something that would alter the scenery in this area forever.

This is a map created by the BLM:

Virtual Video Tour

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