The Polka Dot Wall 

The "small Plateau area" is distinguished by a stand of several dead pinyons. 1000 ft elevation gain total from the car, Allow 1-1/4 to 1-1/2hr.

UTM 579615 3770773 (Conus 27)

greytradster:

I find it slightly ironic that you stated:

"No,but sometimes it's just nice to leave a sense of mystery and adventure for the next guy. Not everything needs to be documented to death. There are plenty of overdeveloped areas for that already."

And then give GPS coordinates to an area. There's little enough adventure in JT w/o giving out waypoints to out of the way crags.

Actualy We found it highly ironic that we had to pack out trash found on top of the formation! Pick up after yourselves people!

There's a very complete govt sponsored list of the gps coordinates of almost every formation and feature in the park remote or otherwise. J Tree is even in its most remote areas, "developed".If this info keeps people from trampling all over the place creating braided dead ended trails looking for this formation it will have served its intended purpose. Its description on this website will insure its popularity in any case.

I'd never think of devulging that kind of info for many places I've been, but not in the park.

This was much easier to find than I thought it would be and worth the hike. A couple of hints about getting there; its pretty much right behind the bulkhead and it can be seen from the billboard area as a smooth dark wall above and slightly to the right of the bulkhead