Sacred SandsEST. 2007

Sacred Sands, Quail Springs Road, Joshua Tree, CA, United States
Ceremony & our Branch Arbor
Ceremony Circle
Reception Area
Other side of Cocktail Hour area - Dusk
Grounds of Sacred Sands
Ballroom - Nighttime
Joshua Tree Bride
Retreat to the desert... Be our guest... Relax your mind, refresh your body, align with your soul.
Let Sacred Sands show you and your guests a bit of heaven.
Desert ceremony with spectacular views!
venue photo
This straw bale home was built with the modern guest in mind.
Access to the National Park is instantaneous.
venue photo
venue photo
Renew your connection to nature and savor this magical place.
The skyline alone is enough to get everyone to Joshua Tree to delight over this blank canvas of a venue, creating positive vibes and an optimistic outlook.
venue photo
The ultimate in privacy, comfort, restfulness, healthfulness, and beauty also affords you some of the most spectacular views around.
Best place to stargaze.
Sacred Sands is a Joshua Tree Guest Retreat Luxury Bed & Breakfast & intimate wedding venue in California.
This spectacular desert wilderness, with it's monumental granite rocks and fabulous wild and plant life, including many endangered species, has become Southern California's premier destination.
It offers countless trails, camping and day sites for picnicking, carefully preserved wilderness areas for registered exploration, and rock climbing for all levels of skill and endurance.
venue photo
An extraordinary bathing experience is yours, both inside and out. Our breakfasts are innovative, healthy and delicious. Access to the National Park is instantaneous.
venue photo
Joshua Tree National Park is exactly one mile up the road (1.61km). Hailed as one of the world's natural wonderlands, this vast desert park of over one million acres spans two great desert ecosystems.
venue photo
venue photo
The ultimate in privacy, comfort, restfulness, healthfulness, and beauty also affords you some of the most spectacular views around.
venue photo
venue photo
Sacred Sands provides a beautiful desert setting for long feasting tables.
venue photo
Poised on a hill at the west entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, Sacred Sands offers luxury accommodations in the high desert of California.
venue photo
Joshua Tree has an abundance of beautiful backdrops and photo ops.
This intimate desert wedding venue in California is ideal for photo workshops, weddings, elopements & retreats.
venue photo
Reception Area
The great room at Sacred Sands Joshua Tree.
The Onyx Room (now w/ new furnishings/bedding)
Reception Area
Part of Cocktail Hour area - Daytime
Ballroom - Daytime
Sacred Sands
Ceremony & our Branch Arbor
Ceremony Circle
Reception Area
Other side of Cocktail Hour area - Dusk
Grounds of Sacred Sands
Ballroom - Nighttime
Joshua Tree Bride
Retreat to the desert... Be our guest... Relax your mind, refresh your body, align with your soul.
Let Sacred Sands show you and your guests a bit of heaven.
Desert ceremony with spectacular views!
venue photo
This straw bale home was built with the modern guest in mind.
Access to the National Park is instantaneous.
venue photo
venue photo
Renew your connection to nature and savor this magical place.
The skyline alone is enough to get everyone to Joshua Tree to delight over this blank canvas of a venue, creating positive vibes and an optimistic outlook.
venue photo
The ultimate in privacy, comfort, restfulness, healthfulness, and beauty also affords you some of the most spectacular views around.
Best place to stargaze.
Sacred Sands is a Joshua Tree Guest Retreat Luxury Bed & Breakfast & intimate wedding venue in California.
This spectacular desert wilderness, with it's monumental granite rocks and fabulous wild and plant life, including many endangered species, has become Southern California's premier destination.
It offers countless trails, camping and day sites for picnicking, carefully preserved wilderness areas for registered exploration, and rock climbing for all levels of skill and endurance.
venue photo
An extraordinary bathing experience is yours, both inside and out. Our breakfasts are innovative, healthy and delicious. Access to the National Park is instantaneous.
venue photo
Joshua Tree National Park is exactly one mile up the road (1.61km). Hailed as one of the world's natural wonderlands, this vast desert park of over one million acres spans two great desert ecosystems.
venue photo
venue photo
The ultimate in privacy, comfort, restfulness, healthfulness, and beauty also affords you some of the most spectacular views around.
venue photo
venue photo
Sacred Sands provides a beautiful desert setting for long feasting tables.
venue photo
Poised on a hill at the west entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, Sacred Sands offers luxury accommodations in the high desert of California.
venue photo
Joshua Tree has an abundance of beautiful backdrops and photo ops.
This intimate desert wedding venue in California is ideal for photo workshops, weddings, elopements & retreats.
venue photo
Reception Area
The great room at Sacred Sands Joshua Tree.
The Onyx Room (now w/ new furnishings/bedding)
Reception Area
Part of Cocktail Hour area - Daytime
Ballroom - Daytime
Sacred Sands
Ceremony & our Branch Arbor
Ceremony Circle
Reception Area
Other side of Cocktail Hour area - Dusk
Grounds of Sacred Sands
Ballroom - Nighttime
Joshua Tree Bride
Retreat to the desert... Be our guest... Relax your mind, refresh your body, align with your soul.
Let Sacred Sands show you and your guests a bit of heaven.
Desert ceremony with spectacular views!
venue photo
This straw bale home was built with the modern guest in mind.
Access to the National Park is instantaneous.
venue photo
venue photo
Renew your connection to nature and savor this magical place.
The skyline alone is enough to get everyone to Joshua Tree to delight over this blank canvas of a venue, creating positive vibes and an optimistic outlook.
venue photo
The ultimate in privacy, comfort, restfulness, healthfulness, and beauty also affords you some of the most spectacular views around.
Best place to stargaze.
Sacred Sands is a Joshua Tree Guest Retreat Luxury Bed & Breakfast & intimate wedding venue in California.
This spectacular desert wilderness, with it's monumental granite rocks and fabulous wild and plant life, including many endangered species, has become Southern California's premier destination.
It offers countless trails, camping and day sites for picnicking, carefully preserved wilderness areas for registered exploration, and rock climbing for all levels of skill and endurance.
venue photo
An extraordinary bathing experience is yours, both inside and out. Our breakfasts are innovative, healthy and delicious. Access to the National Park is instantaneous.
venue photo
Joshua Tree National Park is exactly one mile up the road (1.61km). Hailed as one of the world's natural wonderlands, this vast desert park of over one million acres spans two great desert ecosystems.
venue photo
venue photo
The ultimate in privacy, comfort, restfulness, healthfulness, and beauty also affords you some of the most spectacular views around.
venue photo
venue photo
Sacred Sands provides a beautiful desert setting for long feasting tables.
venue photo
Poised on a hill at the west entrance to Joshua Tree National Park, Sacred Sands offers luxury accommodations in the high desert of California.
venue photo
Joshua Tree has an abundance of beautiful backdrops and photo ops.
This intimate desert wedding venue in California is ideal for photo workshops, weddings, elopements & retreats.
venue photo
Reception Area
The great room at Sacred Sands Joshua Tree.
The Onyx Room (now w/ new furnishings/bedding)
Reception Area
Part of Cocktail Hour area - Daytime
Ballroom - Daytime
Sacred Sands
Ceremony & our Branch Arbor
Ceremony Circle
Reception Area
Other side of Cocktail Hour area - Dusk
Grounds of Sacred Sands
Ballroom - Nighttime
Joshua Tree Bride
Retreat to the desert... Be our guest... Relax your mind, refresh your body, align with your soul.
Let Sacred Sands show you and your guests a bit of heaven.
Desert ceremony with spectacular views!
venue photo
This straw bale home was built with the modern guest in mind.
UsersPlusBedSpace with stay
Up to 100 guests
Avg. venue rate
Rate info
$4k - $13k
Avg. nightly rate$356
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The eternally wise Tom Hanks once said, “I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began.”

Let Sacred Sands show you and your guests a bit of heaven. The skyline alone is enough to get everyone to Joshua Tree to delight over this blank canvas of a venue, creating positive vibes and an optimistic outlook. Reset your internal clock with a personal hot tub, fine linens, and a blanket of stars.

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Venue use

Space with stay

Best for these Occasions

anniversarybaby showerbirthday partybridal showercorporate eventdinner partyelopementengagement partygroup getawayholiday partyrehearsal dinner / Welcome ReceptionRetreats: Corporate, Spa, Wellness, etc.social eventvow renewalwedding ceremonywedding reception

Venue type

Estate / House / Mansion / VillaOtherBoutique Hotel

Views

canyoncourtyarddesertgardenlandscaped groundsparkrivervalleySkylinemeadow/FieldRolling HillsMountains

Style

RusticBohemianDesert OasisWesternZen

Venue Settings

A heavenly union deserves a heavenly place

Sacred Sands is an unrivaled wedding venue and the closest to the West entrance of Joshua Tree National Park. We're so close that our 5 acre property has pictorial joshua trees and protected sweeping mountain views for beautifully unobstructed photos. It's unique architecture and design lends to the feeling of being a "hacienda" or "outpost" in the breathtaking high desert landscape. This intimate setting is ideal for elegantly rustic weddings and various social events. Since 2007 Sacred Sands has been making the dreams of couples come true on its hallowed grounds. Be wed under our beautifully boho arbors adorned with flowers and kissed by the desert sunlight and clean air.

Sacred Sands has a captiviating ceremony circle which accommodates 100 guests, a sprawling outdoor reception area and a cocktail hour patio with majestic views. Our indoor ballroom opens to both the reception and cocktail areas and has stylishly patina’d polished concrete floors. Our two luxury soundproofed rooms serve as respite for the bride & groom or other guests. We welcome every couple fathomable to be betrothed at our high desert shangri-la. We congratulate you both and invite you to wish upon one of the countless stars in the Joshua Tree night sky for everything your hearts desire!

Capacity

100Seated100Buffet100Standing
Fees

(Prices listed here are estimates only & are subject to change)

Venue price range
Additional charges
*Required that both of our luxury rooms must be booked during weddings/receptions and some events depending on the hours you are renting the space. 
*Please conatact us for a full estimate
Insurance

Additional insurance may be required depending on the event

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Amenities

Event Logistics

Essential logistics and amenities for a seamless, memorable event.

Celebrations hosted here since
2007
Curfew
11 PM
Venue spaces
Indoor & Outdoor Venue Spaces Available
Catering
Client can select the caterer of their choice
Alcohol
BYO Permitted – you can bring your own alcohol, Licensed Server is Required
Music
Indoors & Outdoors
Smoking
Designated Smoking Areas Only
Accommodations
This architectural gem is an iconic landmark one mile from the West Entrance of Joshua Tree National Park. Commanding magnificent mountain and desert valley views, Sacred Sands offers the perfect escape with its luxurious accommodations. Prepare to be in awe of the sunsets and overcome by the limitless beauty of the dark night sky with glimpses of shooting stars across The Milky Way. Take it all in from our deep soaking tubs or comfy outdoor stargazing beds.

Our Onyx and Jade rooms are ideal for two and serve as your private gateway to Joshua Tree. The rooms are designed for the ultimate in rest, with plush California king mattresses, luxury Parachute bedding and linens. Clean lines and rich textures entice you in. The thick earthen strawbale walls create a peace and quiet you have to experience to believe. Both rooms come equipped with a record player to enhance the Joshua Tree vibes and the Zen ambience of our Moroccan lamps.

The indoor showers feature multiple jets to surround you, rain head fixtures and river rock floors to massage your feet. Perfect for sharing! Outside you can shower al fresco with our new rain shower heads, or relax in your own private brand new soaking tubs as you view our famous sunsets. Rest in the sun in our outdoor beds, or sleep under the stars on your own terrace, complete with meditation platform. You can also enjoy the sunset and views from our intimate communal patio.

Eco/Green Events
Yes
Handicap Accessible
Yes
other
Yes

Onsite amenities

Valet ParkingWifiAmple Parking OnsiteDining ChairsDining TablesOnsite Restrooms

Venue Features

The scene

Joshua Tree National Park is exactly one mile up the road (1.61km). Hailed as one of the world's natural wonderlands, this vast desert park of over one million acres spans two great desert ecosystems, the Colorado and the Mojave, and hosts the most famous Joshua Tree forest in the world. Originally championed in the 1930's by famed socialite and environmentalist, Minerva Hoyt and Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmstead (designer of New York City's Central Park), this spectacular desert wilderness, with it's monumental granite rocks and fabulous wild and plant life, including many endangered species, has become Southern California's premier destination for nature lovers, hikers, climbers, and those who want to rejuvenate in what Ansel Adams referred to as "The sanity of nature."

Design

Referred to as sustainable or green building; sustainable because straw is plentiful and usually burned or tilled under each year, and green because it conserves our valuable forests and is a superior non-toxic insulation. The walls, stuccoed outside and earth plastered inside have an adobe-like feel. They are wide and flexible yet dense and air tight, lending to greater performance in earthquakes and have recently proven to fare better in fire than wood frame structures. Setting fire to a stawbale wall has been compared to lighting a match to a phone book; the density doesn't allow air flow. One might think rodents would enjoy living in our straw walls. Not so; unlike haybale, there is no food value in strawbale and once again there is no air to breath.

Standout venue features

The Park can be explored by car, bicycle, horseback, foot, or from commercial plane hired from the Joshua Tree Airport. It offers countless trails, 8,000 unique climbing routes, camping and day sites for picnicking, carefully preserved wilderness areas for registered exploration, and rock climbing for all levels of skill and endurance. Guided tours of some sites require reservations.

Extra perks

Included in the venue fee is the following: Polished concrete "ballroom” indoor dance floor, outdoor reception area, cocktail hour area, various staging tables and furuniture, telescope, indoor and outdoor fireplace, tons of outdoor lighting and string lights across the reception area, bar stations, 3 fire bowls, dressing rooms, large kitchen space for caterer, day of wedding on site management and parking attendant service. Choice of 2 arbors for the ceremony, CBD offerings and partnership with winemaker. (Reception can be inside our ballroom versus outside in our courtyard if preferred).

We're working on expanding our rental catalog and currently have serape blankets, mason jars, votives and one large and two small Morocan standing lamps for candles or cards available for rent.