Fielding more than three million visitors a year, Joshua Tree National Park has become a hotbed for vacation homes. To catch the wave, Elaine and Stanley Yang, the husband-and-wife team behind real estate and development firm Mini Inno, went out in search of a home that could serve as a weekend retreat and Airbnb.

“My husband and I fell in love with Joshua Tree after we moved to Los Angeles from the Bay Area about four years ago,” says Elaine. “We would find ourselves escaping there every chance we could get; there was something about the area that kept drawing us back, and we even got married in the park last year.”

While they were hoping to find a homestead cabin on a few acres, those types of properties had become rare. Instead, the couple fell in love with a 2,000-square-foot ranch home built in 1966. Sitting on 3.6 acres, it’s only 11 minutes from the park and six minutes from downtown. The two-bed, two-bath home, however, had gone through various remodels over the years and needed a unifying refresh. “We felt the layout of the home already flowed well, so we saved money by not having to do any major reconfigurations or taking down any load-bearing walls,” says Elaine.