San Diego to Joshua Tree with a travel trailer or RV
San Diego to Joshua Tree runs 193 miles from San Diego to Twentynine Palms. With an RV, you're looking at 5 h 20 min behind the wheel. Our map shows it sealed the whole way.
We planned it on Motocamp's own router for an RV and for a truck and travel trailer, at the sizes in the table below, so every number here comes from a real plan, not a guess.
The stops: San Diego · Temecula · Palm Springs · Twentynine Palms
Is San Diego to Joshua Tree OK for an RV?
Yes, on our plan. It gets through for an RV without using a road signed too low, too short or closed to trailers. Here's what to keep an eye on.
- It keeps you off 1 nearby road with a signed limit your rig wouldn't clear, like Pan American Road East (30 ft long).
The plan, rig by rig
| RV | Truck and travel trailer | |
|---|---|---|
| Distance | 193 miles | 193 miles |
| Driving time | 5 h 20 min | 5 h 40 min |
| Unsealed | none | none |
| Steeper than 8% | under a mile | under a mile |
| Total climb | 8,615 ft | 8,615 ft |
| Longest gap between fuel | not on our map | not on our map |
| Signed limits it goes round | 1 | 1 |
| Planned at | 13 ft 1 in high, 40 ft long and 26,455 lb | 11 ft 6 in high, 38 ft 1 in long and 11,464 lb |
Towns on the way
- Poway · mile 21
- Escondido · mile 30
- Temecula · mile 73
- Hemet · mile 99
- Banning · mile 118
- Joshua Tree · mile 178
- Twentynine Palms · mile 193
RV parks on the way
- Escondido RV Resort · mile 31
- Pala Casino RV Resort · mile 60
- Pala RV Resort · mile 61
- Pechanga RV Resort · mile 68
- Golden Village Palms RV Resort · mile 99
- Reflection Lake RV Park · mile 101
- Diamond Valley RV Park · mile 102
- Country Hills RV Park · mile 111
- Happy Traveller RV Park · mile 141
- Two Springs RV Resort · mile 148
Free camps on the way
- Joshua Tree North Dispersed Camping Area · mile 183
- BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP · mile 184
National park and other campgrounds
- Camp Balboa · mile 2
- Fiesta Island Youth Camp · mile 5 · fees apply
- Group Camp Site · mile 31
- Hidden Falls Preserve · mile 88 · fees apply
- Mission Creek Preserve · mile 157
- Desert Drifter · mile 170
- Indian Cove Group · mile 187 · fees apply
- Indian Cove Campground · mile 187 · fees apply
Rest areas
- Whitewater Adobe Rest Area · mile 130 · toilets · water
Dump points
- at Pala RV Resort · mile 61
- at Reflection Lake RV Park · mile 101
Fuel stops
- Rancho Bernardo Senior Services · mile 23
- Pilot Travel Center · mile 147
Plan this trip for your own rig
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Tell Motocamp what you drive, from an enduro bike to a 40-foot RV, and it plans this trip for that vehicle: the roads it fits, the low bridges and closed roads to steer clear of, and places to stay on the way. The maps keep working where there's no signal.
Plan this trip for your own rig Already have Motocamp USA? Open it hereCamps, fuel and road limits come from OpenStreetMap and state agencies, and some can be missing or out of date. Distances are along our plan. Always go by the signs on the road.