Travel & Stay

Flight

PSP

Palm Springs airport is a 40-minute drive to Pioneertown. This is the easiest airport to fly into.

Flight

LAX

LAX is a two-hour drive from Pioneertown.

Flight

SAN

San Diego is a two-hour and thirty-minute drive from Pioneertown.

Hotel

Pioneertown Motel

There will be a shuttle going to and from this hotel for the ceremony, reception, and after party. Please take the shuttle if you stay here to keep the parking lot at the venue manageable.

Hotel

Super 8 Yucca Valley

There will be a shuttle going to and from this hotel for the ceremony, reception, and after party. This is a ten to fifteen minute walk from the after party. Please take the shuttle if you stay here to keep the parking lot at the venue manageable.

House Or Rental

Multiple Properties

This collection of rentals is beautiful! Look for rentals in Pioneertown or Yucca Valley to utilize the shuttles at Pioneertown Motel or the Super 8.

Travel Note

Taxi Information

Lucky 777 & Roadrunner Car Service https://roadrunnercarservice.com/ (760) 660-9115 Jason’s Taxi Service (760) 401-2460 Jason@29PalmsTaxi.com http://www.29palmstaxi.com/services.html Top’s Taxi (760) 397-3981 topstaxi@outlook.com https://www.topstaxis.com

Travel Note

Understanding the Area: Rimrock Ranch

Rimrock Ranch is a beautiful 36 acre ranch situated just outside Joshua Tree National Park in Pioneertown, California that was originally built as the weekend retreat for western actors like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. The ranch consists of 4 rustic Cabins, retro-fitted Airstream trailers, a lodge and the internationally famous architectural masterpiece known as the Hatch House. The ranch is located just 2 hours from Los Angeles and 40 minutes from Palm Springs.

Travel Note

Understanding the Area: Pioneertown

Pioneertown, California, is an unincorporated community of the Morongo Basin region of San Bernardino's High Desert. The historical town was originally incorporated in 1946 and fell into the hands of San Bernardino County in the late 1960s. The winding, 4-mile drive northwest to Pioneertown from Yucca Valley has been designated a California Scenic Drive and the area is now surrounded by privately and federally protected lands. Actor Dick Curtis started up the town in 1946 as an 1880s themed live-in Old West living, breathing motion-picture set. The town was designed to provide a place for production companies to enjoy while also using their businesses and homes in movies. Hundreds of Westerns and early television shows were filmed in Pioneertown, including The Cisco Kid and Edgar Buchanan's Judge Roy Bean. Dick Curtis, Roy Rogers and Russell Hayden were some of the original developers and investors. Gene Autry filmed his weekly show in town for 5 years, using the buildings and businesses as part of the film set. The first episode accidentally features the Pioneer Bowl sign, which was usually covered for filming, and Pioneer Bowl is still an operating bowling alley. The third building to be built in Pioneertown, Pioneer Bowl was used for recreation for the residents, actors and crew after filming. Bowling leagues were an active part of American culture, and dozens of businesses had leagues at Pioneer Bowl, especially after western films were no longer being made in town. In 2020, Pioneertown's Mane Street area was recognized as a historic district by the National Register of Historic Places.

Travel Note

Understanding the Area: Yucca Valley

Yucca Valley is located in southern California's San Bernardino County on the northern edge of Joshua Tree National Park. It is among a group of communities, including Joshua Tree, Landers and Twentynine Palms, occupying the Morongo Basin of the southeastern Mojave Desert.

Travel Note

Understanding the Area: Joshua Tree National Park

The earliest known residents of the land in and around what later became Joshua Tree National Park were the people of the Pinto Culture, who lived and hunted here between 8000 and 4000 BCE. Their stone tools and spear points, discovered in the Pinto Basin in the 1930s, suggest that they hunted game and gathered seasonal plants, but little else is known about them. Later residents included the Serrano, the Cahuilla, and the Chemehuevi peoples, and the Mojaves. In the 21st century, small numbers of all four peoples live in the region near the park; the Twentynine Palms Band of Mission Indians, descendants of the Chemehuevi, own a reservation in Twentynine Palms. In 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a proclamation designating 794,000-acres of what is now Joshua Tree National Park — an area slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island — a national monument. It became a national park in 1994. Joshua tree is the common name for the Yucca brevifolia, which only grow in a small swath of the Mojave Desert, from southwest Utah, southern Nevada and western Arizona and into southeastern California, in elevations from about 1,300 to 5,900 feet above sea level. Mormon pioneers encountered the species in the mid-1800s and named it after the Biblical story of Joshua, who raised his hands to the sky in prayer. Most of the first European settlers, however, saw the desert as a wasteland. Others, like Minerva Hoyt, a South Pasadena socialite and amateur gardener, found solace and renewed health in the clean air, and beauty in its austere landscape. Long an inspiration for artists, Joshua Tree was rediscovered in the 1960s and ’70s by the rock ‘n’ roll community, including Keith Richards, the Eagles and Gram Parsons.