California Road Trips Guide - 2024 - 50

ITINERARY FOR THE ARTIST
Universal Studios Hollywood
Palm Springs Art Museum
Burbank
Claremont
Los Angeles
Riverside
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Highway 62 to the creosote-dotted hills of
Joshua Tree. Stimulate your creativity by
surveying 10 acres of room-sized sculptures
at the Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum of
Assemblage Art. Purifoy spent 15 years at
this sandy site making art from civilization's
junk: old televisions, bowling balls, tires, and
mannequins.
View more
traditional desert
works in the
rustic adobe that
houses 29 Palms
Art Gallery. For
dinner, Kitchen
in the Desert
in Twentynine
Palms serves jerk
N
Palm
Springs
Joshua
Tree NP
chicken and dan dan noodles on its patio.
Sleep to the call of coyotes in one of 29 Palms
Inn's bungalows.
Joshua Tree National Park lies at your feet,
so take a day to explore its spindly Joshua trees,
massive granite boulders, and fuzzy-looking
cholla cacti. " J-Tree " off ers a broad canvas for
the imagination, so head to the Wonderland of
Rocks or Keys View to meditate, photograph,
and marvel at the landscape. Take a walk at
Hidden Valley. Gaze at the graceful curve
of Arch Rock. Th en steer along Pinto Basin
Road through smoke tree-dotted washes to
Cottonwood Spring Oasis, where you exit
the park and veer west 45 miles on Interstate
10. Soon you'll be sipping an Aperol spritz
at Palm Desert's Porto Via and descending
into dreamland at desert-chic Hotel Paseo, a
midcentury-styled property with 150 rooms.
Rise late and brunch like a local. On El Paseo,
Wilma and Frieda elevates comfort food to an
art form with its blackberry custard French
toast and short-rib scrambles. Th irty minutes
north, the Meditations in Glass exhibit at Palm
Springs Art Museum makes you rethink what
you know about the stuff of windows and
eyeglasses. Spend the night at Talavera, where
11 suites-each with a hot tub-are decked out
with antiques and original artwork.
For your trek back to L.A., backtrack 25 miles
west on Interstate 10, then veer off on Highway
60. Halfway through the two-hour drive, take a
break in Riverside to view vibrant recycled art at
Tio's Tacos. Owner Martin Sanchez is both chef
and sculptor, and he's created an astounding
array of works made from discarded beer cans,
glass bottles, license plates, and toys.
When you arrive in downtown Los Angeles,
take your pick from imaginative destinations:
At Th e Broad, step into Yayoi Kusama's
kaleidoscopic " infi nity mirrored room. " Learn
how to make gnocchi at Eatz cooking school, or
eat the pros' cooking at Smorgasburg, an openair
market with nearly 100 vendors. Tour the
studios or shop the gallery store at the craft er's
dream space, Th e Makery.
Zip over to Universal Studios Hollywood for
a glimpse at how movie magic is made. Take the
back-lot tram tour, which snakes past sets and
sound stages. You'll see actual sets from Jaws,
Psycho, and other fi lms, and experience special
eff ects and animatronics. Best of all, you'll come
away with a fresh appreciation for the ways
movies invite us into new and imagined worlds.
FILL THE TRUNK JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK HAS NO FOOD SERVICE, SO STOCK UP ON WATER
AND SNACKS BEFORE LEAVING TWENTYNINE PALMS. PACKING LIST STAY SUN-SAFE IN THE DESERT.
WEAR HIGH-SPF SUNSCREEN AND LIP PROTECTION, A WIDE-BRIM HAT, AND NONMETAL SUNGLASSES.
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