The Secret Tours Presents:

Real-Life
Adventure TOURS

EPIC Experiences to last a Lifetime

CITY #1:
Joshua Tree, California

Joshua Tree
"REAL-LIFE" Tours

Self-Guided, Self-Paced, App-Based, tours that will amaze you… All you need is YOU and your smart phone. We live in Joshua Tree and this was our very first city ever made within “The Secret Tours” dynasty. This area and all of her secrets are near and dear to our hearts. You might even catch a glimpse of us whilst out and about on your adventures. If we see that you’re on our tours, we will buy your crew lunch and give you some awesome merch!

You finally decided to visit Joshua Tree. AWESOME! Now what? That’s what we have heard again and again over the past 25+ years when our friends and family have visited us… and that spawned “The Secret Tours.” We searched every inch of the desert and researched all of the history and lore that makes Joshua Tree one of the most visited areas in the country. Nearly 3,000,000 visitors drive into the Joshua Tree National Park every year, but we teach you that Joshua Tree actually has THREE main areas to visit:

1. Inside the National Park
2. Outside the National Park
3. Inside the JT Village

Our REAL-LIFE TOURS are a Self-Guided, APP-Based, Self-Paced adventure combining a treasure hunt, scavenger hunt, escape room, geocaching, and adventure travel experience all into one spectacular journey! Our real-life tours will guide you to each location using your cell phone’s GPS! Our tours will transform you into a Joshua Tree Subject Matter Expert (SME)! Let’s dive in to the (5) Tour Options you have in Joshua Tree California:

1. The Village Walking Tour
2. The National Park Tour
3. The Secret Tour MINI
4. The Secret Tour XL
5. The Alien Adventure

Village Walking Tour

VILLAGE WALKING TOUR (VWT):

(18) LOCATIONS
2.3 MILES
ABOUT 1-HOUR
USES CLUEKEEPER APP

Our Real-Life Joshua Tree Village Walking Tour is a fun way to walk the Village on foot and see everything that most people pass up on their way to the Park. We will challenge your mind with puzzles, ciphers, clues, and riddles at each location. Solve each one to move on to the next location or choose to skip the clue and move on. We make sure you will have fun and complete the WHOLE adventure no matter what. You start and finish at the Joshua Tree Visitor Center (JTVC). Learn about Gram Parsons, Jim Morrison, Village Secrets, Artwork, the best food, and SO MUCH MORE!!! Don’t just visit the Park, dive into what the Joshua Tree Village has to offer.

National Park Tour

NATIONAL PARK TOUR (NPT):

(25) LOCATIONS
76 MILES
ABOUT 3-4 HOURS
USES CLUEKEEPER APP

Our Real-Life Joshua Tree National Park Tour will add a little bit of fun as you travel through the Park. You will start at the Joshua Tree Visitor Center (JTVC) on Park Boulevard and end at the 29 Palms Inn. As you visit each unique location, we will challenge your mind with puzzles, ciphers, clues, and riddles. Solve each one to move on to the next location or choose to skip the clue and move on. Our APP works with “zero cellular service” so you will be able to complete the WHOLE adventure. This tour is almost ALL inside the Park.

Your biggest prize is our PDF file that you will get with your purchase. We created a stop-by-stop checklist for you to follow along as you make your way through this MASSIVE National Park. We include every single possible stop, all 141 of them, but chose the 25 most notable and photogenic locations for you to experience during the Tour. The Park is so huge that it could easily take you over 26 hours to visit, but we shorten it to 3+ hours. Our checklist will help you keep track of where you are throughout your day so you can gauge how far you are into the park and how much longer you will be without cellular service. YES, there is ZERO cellular service inside the Park so having our checklist will be worth a million dollars!

ENJOY THIS GLORIOUS NATIONAL PARK! We think it is the most beautiful of the 61 National Parks across the United States of America and the best of the 9 National Parks in California.

Secret Tour MINI

THE SECRET TOUR MINI (TSTM):

(22) LOCATIONS
55 MILES
ABOUT 3-4 HOURS
USES CLUEKEEPER APP

We feel that our Joshua Tree: THE SECRET TOUR (MINI) is the MUST-SEE of all of our Tours. We take you on a mystical, mysterious, and magical adventure throughout the Joshua Tree area creating 22 spectacular experiences that will remain with you forever. You will learn about U2, John Lennon, Jim Morrision, UFOs, Aliens, Artwork, Project Blue Book, George Van Tassel, the literal heart of the earth, and SO MUCH MORE!!! This is the MINI version of THE SECRET TOUR XL. This slimmed down version will take you 3-4 hours and have you drive a distance of 55 miles. That might sound like a lot of driving but we can bet you already drove a long way just to get to this remote desert area. Most of the locations are close to each other so the tour is broken up into a lot of short runs from clue to clue. We will have you start and finish at the same location, the Joshua Tree Visitor Center (JTVC). As you visit each unique location, we will challenge your mind with puzzles, ciphers, clues, and riddles. Solve each one to move on to the next location or choose to skip the clue and move on. This tour does NOT visit the Park. It is all OUTSIDE the National Park. We make sure you will have fun and complete the WHOLE adventure. Don’t just visit the Park, see what Joshua Tree is really all about!

Secret Tour XL

THE SECRET TOUR XL (TSTXL):

(38) LOCATIONS
104 MILES
ABOUT 8 HOURS
(Fastest team did it in 5.5 hours)
USES CLUEKEEPER APP

This is it. This is the big one. You’ll need to set aside a whole day to even attempt to complete this one. THE SECRET TOUR XL will take you on a mystical, mysterious, and magical adventure throughout the Joshua Tree area creating 38 spectacular experiences that will change your perception of the desert forever. This extended version of The Secret Tour MINI adds 16 more experiences and roughly double the time (6-8 hours) and distance (104 miles). This tour does NOT visit the Park at all. It is all OUTSIDE the Park.

You will learn about U2, John Lennon, Jim Morrison, Paul McCartney, UFOs, Aliens, crop circles, artwork, Project Blue Book, George Van Tassel, the literal heart of the earth, and SO MUCH MORE!!!

We will have you start and finish at the same location, the Joshua Tree Visitor Center (JTVC). We did that so your team can always have a “home base.” As you visit each unique location, we will challenge your mind with puzzles, ciphers, clues, and riddles. Solve each one to move on to the next location or choose to skip the clue and move on. Your friends, family, and social media followers will absolutely love the extreme backdrops and quirky objects you will encounter along the way. Most importantly we guarantee that you will be amazed.

Alien Adventure

Alien Adventure (AA):

(18) LOCATIONS
45 MILES
ABOUT 3 HOURS
USES CLUEKEEPER APP

Our Joshua Tree: ALIEN ADVENTURE will take you on an interstellar adventure throughout the Joshua Tree area creating 18 spectacular experiences. Although all of the locations on this Alien Adventure are also found on our “Secret Tour XL”, we created this different version for those of you who want to focus directly on the Alien and UFO culture that exists around Joshua Tree. This tour does NOT visit the Park. It is all OUTSIDE the Park.

UFO enthusiasts have the most wonderful inquisitive minds! And guess what? You have come to the right place. We like to think of our desert as Area 52, the unknown TOP SECRET UFO location that gets overlooked by the rest of the world. We are ULTRA connected to huge military bases, PROJECT BLUE BOOK, UFOs, Howard Hughes, Government Conspiracies, Giant Rock, George Van Tassel, and so much more!

We will have you start and finish at the same location, the Joshua Tree Visitor Center (JTVC). We did that so your team can always have a “home base.” As you visit each unique location, we will challenge your mind with puzzles, ciphers, clues, and riddles. Solve each one to move on to the next location or choose to skip the clue and move on. We make sure you will have fun and complete the WHOLE adventure. We will take you no further than a 12-mile radius from your starting location so have no fear about the distance. Even though you won’t be driving “far”, visiting these 18 eccentric locations will take you 3+ hours so plan accordingly.

CITY #2: Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs
"REAL-LIFE" Tours

COMING SOON:

Self-Guided, Self-Paced, App-Based, tours that will amaze you… All you need is YOU and your smart phone. We are currently scouring every little square inch and all of the history and mystery throughout Tinsel Town East… aka Palm Springs. We will have a massive media event to share that we created new tours. Keep checking back often.

PALM SPRINGS TOURS COMING SOON: We are going to blow your mind with all of the celebrities homes, unique and secret architecture, and hidden gems in the downtown Palm Springs Strip.

How Do I Book A Real-Life Tour?

"REAL-LIFE TOURS" are played when you are physically present using our ClueKeeper APP:

Step 1...

Download the ClueKeeper APP available for iOS/Android. Our real-life tours are available 24/7/365 because YOU are the tour guide!

Step 2...

Click on the “CLICK HERE TO BUY” button (above) of the tour you would like to experience. You will be sent to the Purchase and Checkout screen on the ClueKeeper website. You will instantly receive an EMAIL with the 6-letter hunt code that you will use inside the ClueKeeper APP. No waiting. Start your tour THIS INSTANT!

Step 3...

Open the ClueKeeper APP. Click on the ENTER HUNT CODE button, type in the 6-letter code, and enjoy your adventure! All Joshua Tree tours begin at the Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center at: 6554 Park Boulevard, Joshua Tree, CA 92252.

Payment types:

REAL-LIFE TOURS:
To purchase a Real-Life Tour, simply click on the “CLICK HERE TO BUY” button above your chosen tour and complete your checkout on the ClueKeeper site checkout system. You will instantly receive an EMAIL with your 6-letter code. Download our ClueKeeper App on iOS and Android, input your 6-letter code, and immediately begin your adventure.

APPAREL, HOME GOODS, ART, AND ALL OTHER ITEMS:
These items are hosted here on our website. Simply add them to your cart here on our website and complete your checkout. PAYPAL and STRIPE are our accepted methods of payment.

Please contact us at thesecrettours@gmail.com to discuss payment/shipping concerns.

Shipping Policy

REAL-LIFE TOURS:
Our real-life tours are hosted in collaboration with ClueKeeper. There are no shipping or handling charges associated with this type of purchase. You will instantly receive an EMAIL with your 6-letter code so you can immediately begin your adventure.

APPAREL, HOME GOODS, ART, ALL OTHER ITEMS:
These items have varying shipping and handling costs based on the total purchase price, the total number of items, the combination of items in one order, and the weight/size of an item.

Please contact us at thesecrettours@gmail.com to discuss shipping concerns.

Return / Refund Policy

REAL-LIFE TOUR CLUEKEEPER REFUND POLICY:
We create each and every one of our tours and use a third party service at ClueKeeper to offer our creation through their APP. When you desire a refund for a real-life tour purchased through ClueKeeper, you can contact them first if you like. Both ClueKeeper and our team have the same goals in mind…. your happiness and enjoyment. This is the quoted refund policy from our partners & friends at ClueKeeper:
“We really want you to be happy with any purchases you make on the ClueKeeper platform, so if you are unhappy with your purchase and believe you should get a refund for any reason, before or after playing or creating a hunt, please let us know at admin@cluekeeper.com and we will do everything possible to make it right, either by refund or credit, depending on circumstances.” -The ClueKeeper Team

APPAREL, HOME GOODS, ART, ALL OTHER ITEMS REFUND/RETURN POLICY:
Our main goal is to make sure you are extremely happy with each and every single item you ever choose to purchase with us. Generally, all of our items under these categories are unique and made on a one-at-a-time basis. Because these items are made directly for you when you order, they cannot be returned. Please contact us at thesecrettours@gmail.com or info@thesecrettours.com to discuss your concerns on a case-by-case basis. The general policy is no returns are allowed for these one-off creations.