Mission Creek Preserve

The Mission Creek Preserve hike can be started from the main gate at the entrance or at a stone house accessible via path. There is no visitor’s center at the preserve, so hikers are on their own. From the gate, the roundtrip hike is 8.4 miles; from the stone house, it is 5.2 miles. Other destinations worth visiting in the area include Andreas Canyon, as well as the Lost Horse Mine and Barker Dam in Joshua Tree National Park.