Gatos Trail is a custom built destination recording studio located in Joshua Tree, CA. We offer full music production services and lodging for bands, songwriters, producers & more. We host a variety of pre and post production sessions ranging from songwriting retreats to tracking and mixing sessions.
If you’re looking for a private, creative oasis in the middle of the Joshua Tree desert, Gatos Trail Recording Studio is it! As you enter our Joshua Tree filled property you will immediately be transported to another world where time slows down and creativity takes over. Our clients testify that they accomplish much more in less time here as their senses heighten and their focus sharpens in our beautiful, distraction-free environment.
Our location offers the best of both worlds: a pristine, remote area of the high desert but within close proximity to all visitors points of interest including Joshua Tree National Park, Pappy & Harriets, Downtown Joshua Tree and Old Town Yucca Valley. For our fly in visitors we are only 40 minutes from Palm Springs International Airport and 2.5 hours from Los Angeles International Airport.
Joshua Tree and the surrounding areas are world renown for their beauty and creative inspiration, at Gatos Trail you can enjoy everything the high desert has to offer while working in an artistically appointed, world class recording studio.
Gatos Trail gets named as one of SoCals best Studios! Read More
The Mekons at Gatos Trail Recording Studio
SZA with Dan Joeright at Gatos Trail Recording Studio
ABOUT
Owner Dan Joeright custom built Gatos Trail over a 2 year period between 2013 - 2015 and continues to update the space.
Accomodations
We offer on-site lodging, steps away from the studio.
“A true desert experience and fantastic studio”
- Vinny singnorelli - unsane
