The Joshua Tree National Park Association, the non-profit that provides funding to programming at Joshua Tree National Park, has announced the successful results of one fundraiser while announcing their next one.
On the week surrounding Valentine’s Day, 12 local restaurants participated in the “Love Your Park Hi-Desert Food Tour,” in which each of the businesses donated a portion of the proceeds on certain food and drink items to the JTNPA.
More than $10,000 was raised by the 12 restaurants:
Spaghetti Western Saloon
The Tiny Pony Tavern
Frontier Café
2 Guys Pies Brick Oven Pizza
The Copper Room
The Red Dog Saloon
Pappy + Harriet’s
Food for Thought Café at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center
Roadrunner Grab + Go, Joshua Tree Country Kitchen
Sky High Pie
The 29 Palms Inn
A finale event at the Tiny Pony Tavern featured a silent auction for goods donated by even more local businesses, snakes, and a talk from interim National Park Superintendent Jane Rodgers.
The money raised from this event will be used to fund the preservation and conservation of Joshua Tree National Park.
The Joshua Tree National Park Association has also announced their benefit dinner and auction which is scheduled for May 6th. The money raised from this event will allow JTNP researchers to coordinate surveys on bighorn sheep and purchase the necessary equipment needed to survey their populations.
The Bighorn Benefit Dinner and Auction will take place at Paradise Heights, a rustic setting tucked between the hills of Joshua Tree and Palm Springs, located in Morongo Valley, CA on the evening of May 6th , 2023, from 5-8 pm.
A BBQ dinner, drinks, live auction hosted by Z107.7 radio personality Gary Daigneault, and special guest speakers from the national park. Keep an eye out for tickets, which go on sale on April 1.
