This is a review of our experience, not the park itself. Joshua Tree National Park is a beautiful place. Unfortunately, My friends and I experienced harrasment by campers on the night of 12/20/24 from 11 PM - 12:30 AM. My friends and I occupied the picnic area in the afternoon. We read on every advertisement for the Stargazing on the several sites JT has that we were good to stargaze in any picnic area since they are on a first-come-first serve basis. We set up our chairs and food and had no intention to stay overnight. Which we communicated this to the group when they asked us in the day time. They did not say anything else, rather just walked away from us. We didn't think much of it either. Eventually, my friends and I picked up our food and made sure no trash was left behind. After we cleaned up our food, we moved a bit further away from the big group. And according to the signpost, we ended up right within the picnic area but some of the campers aggressively insisted for us to leave the area. We were a group of 4, sitting on camping chairs, Stargazing. We had no overnight camping gear, and we let the group know after they continued to insist. I explained to them that it is too dark to find a new area since it was after 11 PM. This group proceeded to harass us to get us to leave and threatened to hurt us at some point. They were speaking loudly, playing loud ring tones, playing alarm clock sounds, making noises with a glass bottle, singing/yelling, flashing flashlights right at our faces/eyes, held loud conversation right behind our chairs, and all this occured for an hour straight. Myself and my friends were positive we had followed the correct directions as to where to stargaze and never thought we would have to deal with such harassment. I will recognize one of my friends was very upset with the harassment we were experiencing, specially the bright lights being flashed directly at our faces/eyes for an hour, like anyone would be while trying to stargaze, that he used profanity. We did not retaliate otherwise. we did not use flashlights at them. We did not sing loudly, nor played ringtone, nor set off alarm sounds on purpose. We simply wanted to stargaze and thought they would eventually stop and leave us alone. We ended up leaving around 12:30 am in such bad spirits by the aggressive behavior of these people. We were outnumbered by these mostly yt guys and girls. Their other half of their group did not participate with these 10-15 people. It was obvious they were looking for trouble intentionally especially the yt guy on the picture provided below. I would like to know what safety protocols is there at JT for these type of situations. Please and thank you. The license plate #'s of the group are listed below: 6WEG434, 8BCB936, 9MFB669, and 6 KHT054. I couldn't capture all of their cars but in total, the group was about 25+ people. I am posting their license plates to spread safety and for anyone going there to stay vigilant of your surroundings.