Nature venue
Giant Rock CA
291 locals recommend
Location
Landers, CA
Tips from locals
*** Giant Rock is the largest freestanding boulder in North America and is known to be the largest free-standing rock in the world. www giantrockproject.com Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. The boulder covers 5,800 square feet of ground and is seven stories high. Native Americans of the Joshua Tree area consider it to be sacred. In the 1950s, Giant Rock was a gathering point for UFO believers. It is located on land which was at that time leased by George Van Tassel, a friend of Critzer's, a purported flying-saucer contactee and organizer of UFO conventions. ~ Wikipedia
*** Giant Rock is the largest freestanding boulder in North America and is known to be the largest free-standing rock in the world. www giantrockproject.com Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twe…
The largest free standing rock in the US! Cool to see and also hike around the area.
Giant Rock is purported to be the largest free standing boulder in the world. A single large room, which was subsequently filled in, was dug beneath the rock and resided in by a prospector named Frank Critzer during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Considered sacred by Native Americans of Joshua Tree, Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California, that covers 5,800 square feet of ground and is seven stories high. Giant Rock is purported to be the largest free standing boulder in the world.