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You can visit Joshua Tree for free this weekend

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You can visit Joshua Tree for free this weekend

Nationwide Park Week kicks off Saturday, with among the nation’s most spectacular wilderness areas accessible to discover freed from cost.

Joshua Tree park passes begin at $15 for people and $30 for automobiles, so this can be a good alternative to journey on a budget. A park spokesperson mentioned that rangers shall be at entrances to welcome individuals into the reserve and reply any questions. Till you enter and exit the park once more, you seemingly received’t be requested for a go.

By no means been to this distinctive slice of Southern California desert? Right here’s what you could know.

File – A Joshua Tree, from which the nationwide park takes its title, in opposition to the setting solar. (Picture: Ella Hinkle through NPS)

When to go to Joshua Tree

Right here’s extra excellent news: The free visits accessible Saturday — and the particular occasions deliberate for the following Nationwide Park Week — come on the park’s advisable time for guests.

That is the desert, so the climate is most snug in spring and fall, contemplating the common excessive temperature nonetheless reaches about 85 levels. On the similar time, you keep away from the coldest desert evenings, with common lows coming in at round 50 levels.

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You’ll additionally breathe higher air throughout the spring. When temperatures soar in the summertime, the world can expertise poor air high quality, in keeping with the Nationwide Park Service. Joshua Tree has an air monitoring web page that updates with the most recent information, so in the event you’re delicate, you may examine earlier than you go. As of Thursday, the Ozone Air High quality Index was listed as Good.

Joshua Tree isn’t any “secret spot” and the park spokesperson warned that that is usually the busiest time of the yr there. Don’t let that discourage you from heading out to the park — simply understand that you received’t have the place to your self.

What to do in Joshua Tree

Rangers prefer to say that the park is “the place two deserts meet,” bringing collectively the distinctive ecosystems of the Mojave and the Colorado. The park isn’t filled with amenities — it’s 800,000 acres of largely open wilderness, dotted by rock formations and the long-lasting Joshua Bushes from which the park takes its title.

Take a look at the Joshua Tree mountaineering information and choose your path. There’s all the things from brief nature walks to reasonably difficult trails and hikes onerous sufficient that you’re strictly suggested to keep away from them in sizzling circumstances.

Stargazing within the desert is second-to-none. You’ll see “a glittering dome peppered with stars, planets, and passing meteors,” because the nationwide park’s web site poetically particulars. Joshua Tree has among the darkest skies in Southern California, giving many guests an opportunity to see the Milky Approach with the bare eye for the primary time.

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How about sporting actions? When you’ve got a rock climber in your life, you already know that Joshua Tree is among the many hottest spots within the state. Climbing, bouldering, highlining and slacklining are all permitted within the desert’s rocky outcrops. Guides may give you a day class or tour in the event you’re a newbie — simply ensure that they’re permitted to work throughout the park. You’re additionally urged to Depart No Hint.

A climber on Dairy Queen Wall inside Joshua Tree Nationwide Park. (Glauco Puig-Santana through NPS)

Cyclists ought to know there aren’t any bike lanes within the park and most paved roads don’t have a shoulder that enables protected using, however you may journey the world’s backcountry roads.

Staying the night time? The park is house to 10 campgrounds with lodging suited to everybody from backpackers to tent campers and RV vacationers.

Should you’re searching for extra actions, contemplate images, birding, horseback using and guided ranger packages. Do you assume you’ll have sufficient to do?

Making an attempt to determine the place to go inside Joshua Tree? The park additionally has a listing of its high points of interest.

Be ready

The park shares the next security suggestions:

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  • There isn’t any cell service all through the park — talk your journey plans forward of time.
  • At all times preserve loads of water with you, whether or not driving or mountaineering. Rangers suggest a minimal of 1 gallon of water per individual, per day; hikers and cyclists ought to carry two gallons per individual, per day.
  • Shield your self from the solar by sporting sunscreen, sun shades and a hat.

Should you’re searching for one thing nearer to house this weekend, understand that Cabrillo Nationwide Monument in Level Loma can be a part of the federal parks system, so you may go to the tidepools, lighthouse and statue there without spending a dime on Saturday.

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Motorist dead after being ejected from car during crash on L.A. freeway; 3 others seriously hurt 

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Motorist dead after being ejected from car during crash on L.A. freeway; 3 others seriously hurt 

One person died and three others were hospitalized in serious condition after a violent rollover crash near the interchange of two major L.A. freeways early Sunday. 

According to the California Highway Patrol, officers responded to the 134 Freeway eastbound connector with the southbound 5 Freeway in Griffith Park at 12:50 a.m. on reports of a single-vehicle crash. 

Upon arriving, they located the gray sedan involved in the collision on its roof and suffering major damage. 

Investigators found that one of the vehicle’s occupants was ejected from the car due to the force of the collision. Two others were trapped and had to be rescued with hydraulic rescue tools, and a fourth was able to escape on their own, authorities said. 

Of the three surviving victims, one was said to be in grave condition and the other two in critical condition. 

It was not immediately clear if impairment or speed played a role in the deadly crash. 

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A SigAlert was issued for the affected stretch of freeway that lasted about two hours.

Alexis Lewis contributed to this report.

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Suspect arrested in deadly Orange County hit-and-run crash

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Suspect arrested in deadly Orange County hit-and-run crash

A suspect was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a woman dead in Orange County.

The suspect was identified as Edgar Arce, 24, according to the Anaheim Police Department. 

On Sept. 15, police responded to a hit-and-run crash near Katella Avenue, just west of Euclid Street in Anaheim at around 4:40 a.m.

Officers found a woman with severe traumatic injury at the scene. She was transported to the hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

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The victim was identified as Sabrina Ruiz Adame, a 47-year-old woman who was a transient, Anaheim police said.

Witnesses said they saw a dark-colored SUV traveling westbound on Katella Avenue fatally strike her. The suspect drove away from the scene without stopping.

Detectives later identified the driver as Arce. He was located and arrested on felony hit-and-run charges. His vehicle was recovered and is being processed for evidence.

The deadly crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Anaheim Police Department at 714-765-1900 or Orange County Crime Stoppers at 855-TIP-OCCS.

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Fire burns through apartment building in Koreatown, leaving families displaced

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Fire burns through apartment building in Koreatown, leaving families displaced

Families are left without a home after a massive fire burned through an apartment building in L.A.’s Koreatown.

The fire occurred on Sept. 26 at a building on the 750 block of South Normandie Avenue in the early morning hours.

When firefighters arrived, smoke was billowing from the roof and the flames destroyed multiple apartment units, leaving families displaced and without a place to sleep.

“There are six units total that have suffered severe damage,” said Celeste Kessler with the Los Angeles Tenants Union. “What really blows my mind is that the L.A. Housing Department has declared this a habitable unit.”

Inside Maria Vargas’ apartment, the fire burned through her kitchen, bathroom, personal belongings and several walls, leaving the unit unsafe and uninhabitable. The ceiling was burned through where water can be seen leaking and a clear view into her neighbor’s apartment is visible.

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  • A fire burned through an apartment building in Koreatown in Los Angeles on September 26, 2024. (Citizen)
  • Maria Vargas' apartment was destroyed by the fire that burned through her kitchen, bathroom, surrounding walls and personal belongings. (KTLA)
  • The fire left families displaced after burning through several apartment units and leaving them uninhabitable. (KTLA)
  • The fire left families displaced after burning through several apartment units and leaving them uninhabitable. (KTLA)
  • The fire left families displaced after burning through several apartment units and leaving them uninhabitable. (KTLA)
  • The fire destroyed a shared wall that left a clear view into a neighbor's apartment. (KTLA)
  • The building was yellow-tagged by officials but tenants say the affected apartment units are dangerous and uninhabitable. (KTLA)
  • The fire left families displaced after burning through several apartment units and leaving them uninhabitable. (KTLA)
  • A fire burned through an apartment building in Koreatown in Los Angeles on September 26, 2024. (Citizen)

Vargas said she’s frustrated over the lack of ability to do basic things like cook or bathe in her home while also worrying about taking care of her three children.

“I’m not doing very well,” Vargas told KTLA’s John Fenoglio through a Spanish translator. “I’m very worried. We need help to leave this apartment. We can’t stay here.”

Many of the displaced residents don’t have anywhere else to go.

“We spent the night in our car,” said Margarita Linares, a mother of two children whose apartment was also destroyed.

Frustrated tenants told KTLA they’ve tried contacting the building’s manager but he reportedly wouldn’t answer their questions or even speak with them until the following Monday.

“TDI Properties, the owner of this building, has been pretty negligent, I would say, in terms of responding to this fire,” Kessler said. “They have not been speaking with tenants. Tenants went to their office and they refused to open the door so the tenants are grasping at straws to find a place to go where they can live with their children and TDI is just ignoring them.”

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Displaced residents are left scrambling and had asked for assistance with temporary housing but said they’ve been completely ignored.

“I can’t believe that this is the reaction I’m getting,” Linares said. “I always pay my rent on time and now that I need something from them, I can’t believe this is the reaction.”

“Council District 10 was on the scene, but so far they have not offered any recourse,” Kessler said. “They talked about hotel vouchers for tenants but at the end of the day, they told us they were out of them. So they truly haven’t been much help, either.”

“There should not be a circumstance where individuals are displaced due to a fire and they are unable to find housing in the short term,” an attorney, Ryan Kerns, explained of the situation. “If the landlord’s negligence was the cause of the fire, then the landlord is responsible for relocating costs and finding replacement apartments. If the landlord can find replacement apartments in the same unit that are of the same value as the apartments the tenants were already having, that can potentially constitute the replacement value of that property.”

On Saturday night, a spokesperson from Council District 10 told KTLA they are working on finding interim housing for the displaced tenants.

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A GoFundMe page organized by the Los Angeles Tenants Union to help the affected tenants can be found here.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

KTLA has reached out to TDI Properties for a statement but has not heard back.

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