Lost Horse Area

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Description 

The Lost Horse Area covers popular rocks including The Lost Horse Wall, Hemingway Buttress, Dairy Queen Wall, Freeway Wall, Shorter Wall, Tiny Tots, Atlantis, and others. Count on crowds at popular areas such as DQ, Hemingway, and Lost Horse Wall. Shorter Wall and Atlantis are popular with larger groups due to the high density of moderates. The South Side of Lost Horse Wall boasts some of the longer routes in the Park including classics Dappled Mare and Bird on a Wire (not to be confused with 'Bird of Fire' - that's in a completely different area!).

Getting There 

Lost Horse is located between Quail Springs (Trashcan Rock) and Hidden Valley Campground on the south side of Quail Springs Road. Approach via the designated Hemingway parking area along Quail Springs Road for the following rocks: DQ, IRS, Copenhagen, Hemingway. Approach along the dirt road to Lost Horse Ranger Station (several pullouts, but limited parking) for the following: Freeway Wall, Tiny Tots, Rock Garden, Shorter Wall, Lost Horse, and Atlantis.

The Classics

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Dappled Mare 5.8  CA : Joshua Tree National Park : ... : Lost Horse Wall

Approach: walk up the wash below the Lost Horse Wall. Your landmark for finding this route is the traverse down and left along a horizontal from the top of P2 into P3; look for this about halfway down the ledge that defines the right side of the wall. At the left edge of this traverse, there is an obvious, left-facing dihedral. Scramble up boulders to reach the approach pitch.Photo opportunity: as the leader gets into the dihedral at...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA

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BETA PHOTO: dairy queen wall and hemingway buttress from the h...	Panorama, looking west from Hemingway	BETA PHOTO: Another trailside problem
Dairy Queen Wall, Left and right from the top of P...	Cool looking rocks at Lost Horse. Photo by Blitzo.	Lost Horse Ranger Station Area. Photo by Blitzo.
Moonrise at Lost Horse. Photo by Blitzo.	BETA PHOTO: Playhouse Rock	Freeway Wall
Banana Cracks	BETA PHOTO: Creature Comforts Wall, Joshua Tree NP.	Copenhagen Wall
Flowering Yucca near Lost Horse Road, JTNP.	Yucca bloom detail, Joshua Tree NP.	Butterfly and Desert Dandelion, JTNP.
Bee and Beavertail cactus flower, Joshua Tree.