Yucca Valley, California

Yucca Valley is the commercial hub and northern gateway to Joshua Tree National Park, a town of about 21,770 people in San Bernardino County, California. The park recorded roughly 2.99 million visitors in 2024, down 8.5% from a record 3.2 million in 2023, a figure that describes the park, not the town, since Yucca Valley does not publish its own standalone visitor count. The town captures a large share of that inbound tourism as travelers stop for lodging, dining, gas, and supplies along State Route 62. Visitors are dominated by outdoor-recreation travelers, hikers, rock climbers, campers, photographers, and stargazers drawn to the park’s dark skies, plus a growing desert-getaway segment from the Los Angeles and San Diego metros seeking weekend and month-plus stays. Local attractions include Desert Christ Park, the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum, and the Hi-Desert Nature Museum. Yucca Valley’s STR performance data in StaySTRA’s dataset is tracked at a shared Morongo Basin regional level, combined with nearby Twentynine Palms and Morongo Valley, rather than reported uniquely for the town, so all performance figures below describe that shared regional STR market rather than Yucca Valley in isolation. In the most recent tracked month (June 2026), the Morongo Basin area STR market shows an average daily rate of $281 and occupancy of 46.2%, with average revenue of $3,853 per listing for the month. Year over year, occupancy is up 3.8 percentage points and revenue is up 0.5%, even as ADR is down 1.1%. Bedroom mix, channel split, listing-type counts, and top property manager rosters are tracked at the same shared regional level rather than uniquely for Yucca Valley, so this profile omits those figures rather than present a regional total as the town’s own. Housing data is available specifically for Yucca Valley: the typical home value was $360,105 as of June 2026, with 281 homes for sale.