Lost Horse Mine Loop
Keys View Rd, Joshua Tree NP · near Joshua Tree · California Desert
Hiking
At a glance
- Difficulty
- moderate
- Route type
- loop
- Distance
- 6.5 miles
- Elevation gain
- 1,000 ft
- Time needed
- day
- Best season
- Oct–Apr
Permits and booking
- Permit required
- No
- How the permit works
- $30/vehicle 7-day Joshua Tree NP entrance fee. No day-hike permit needed.
- How hard the permit is to get
- 1 of 5
What is here
- Features
- Best-preserved gold-stamp mill in the park · High desert ridge views · Mine ruins · Joshua tree forest
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Not permitted
- Good for a first timer
- No
Hiking detail
- Intl tip
- Do the loop clockwise to save the big views for the descent; the fenced mine building is the turnaround highlight — don't enter the shafts.
The guide
The park's premier history hike climbs to the remarkably intact Lost Horse Mine ten-stamp mill — one of the region's most succe…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Lost Horse Mine Loop — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 33.9285, -116.1636