Step 1 : Introduction to the question "What national park shares its name with an album by U2?"
Joshua Tree National Park is an American national park in southeastern California. The park is named for the Joshua trees native to the Mojave Desert. Originally declared a national monument in 1936, Joshua Tree was redesignated as a national park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act. In 1987, Irish rock band U2 released their fifth studio album, The Joshua Tree, named after a tree with which the band were photographed near Darwin, California. The site is about a four-hour drive north of Joshua Tree National Park. The tree collapsed and died around the turn of the century.