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Cottonwood Spring

Joshua Tree National Park


Cottonwood Spring is an oasis with a natural spring that Cahuilla tribespeople depended on for centuries. Look for morteros – rounded depressions in the rocks used by Native Americans for grinding seeds. Miners came searching for gold here in the late 19th century.


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