El Ranchito Wellness Inn and Spa is a super chill spot. A lot of awesome musicians, actors, directors, painters, hikers, cyclists, climbers, and athletes of all stripes have stayed and recreated here, and created some fabulous things. Lots of good juju here.


Aside from the magical delights up in the park, there's great hiking, biking and desert wandering going right out from the ranch house, across the open desert, or ride the dirt roads in our area, or bushwhack cross country in the nearby foothills.

On the ranch there's a pool patio spa next to a lap pool, lounges and daybeds, a palapa with eight hammocks, two outdoor showers and a second spa in in a private cabana (a hot tub in a cabana, that locks from the inside, uses a vacant/occupied sign system, and has no sight lines in), all make El Ranchito de la Playa a fun, romantic and often inspiring sanctuary. It's really important to us that you revel and recreate in our little corner of the Mojave, a place we dearly love. Our goal is to achieve an almost instant dropping of your heart rate as you first relax into a hammock, lounge, rocking chair, or jacuzzi, take in the oceanic desert that engulfs you and the trillions of stars above that shine down, the galaxial sky's awesomeness inevitably softening the heart.

We also offer ATV, Quad, and Fat-Sand-Tire Electric Mountain Bike guided tours of the surrounding desert area.

Additionally we directly offer golf cart rentals to our guests staying at the ranch. If interested please let us know and we'll send you the info.

And we also offer Equine therapy and Horse Experiences.

All subject to availability.

If there's any biking, running, climbing, dirtbiking, horseback riding or hiking you'd like to do while you're in the Joshua Tree area, we'll give you solid recommends (I.e. re: hiking: how long, how difficult, elevation gain/mostly flat/rollers, etc). Think of us as your Joshua Tree Desert concierge.