Got a ticket filed at San Bernardino County's Joshua Tree District courthouse? Here's the court's fee, how to request traffic school and finish the course online.
Serves: The Joshua Tree District is San Bernardino County's traffic-filing court for the Morongo Basin — including Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms, Landers, Pioneertown, Morongo Valley, Johnson Valley, and the surrounding unincorporated high-desert communities. Your filing location is the one on your citation or courtesy notice — confirm it before you start.
6527 White Feather Rd
Joshua Tree, CA 92252
Mon–Fri 8:00am–4:00pm
$55 — paid to the court (bail + $55)
Nonrefundable; separate from any course payment when you pass
Online at cap.sb-court.org, by phone (909) 481-4228, or in person
Note: the court’s separate MyCitations / Ability-to-Pay tool can’t sign you up for traffic school
Set on your reminder/courtesy notice — confirm your date via the Case Access Portal or the clerk
The Joshua Tree District courthouse sits on White Feather Road just down the hill from the national park's west entrance, and that location shapes its docket in ways you won't see at the county's valley courthouses. Joshua Tree National Park draws several million visitors a year, and a steady share of them — many driving rental cars or vehicles registered out of state — pick up a citation for a rolling stop at an entrance station or a speed check on the approach roads through Yucca Valley. Twentynine Palms adds its own twist: it's home to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, one of the largest Marine bases in the country, so a lot of the drivers cited around here hold licenses from whatever state they called home before their orders sent them to the high desert. And because the Morongo Basin itself is spread thin across a lot of open ground — Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Twentynine Palms, Landers, Pioneertown, Morongo Valley, and Johnson Valley all file here — a trip to the clerk's counter can mean an hour or more of driving each way for residents on the far side of the basin, which is exactly why handling your request by mail or phone and finishing the course online is usually the easier route.
You generally qualify if the ticket is a moving violation, you haven't done traffic school in the past 18 months, you weren't more than 25 mph over, it wasn't in a commercial vehicle, and it isn't an alcohol/drug or mandatory-appearance offense. The out-of-state-license rule carries extra weight at this courthouse: between the national park's out-of-town visitors and the Marine base's rotating personnel, a large share of citations here go to drivers without a California license, and the court can authorize those cases to attend — it's handled case by case rather than automatically, so confirm with the clerk. Holding a commercial license doesn't disqualify you either, as long as the ticket wasn't written in a commercial vehicle — worth knowing if you're stationed at Twentynine Palms and got cited driving your own car off-base. Look up your citation on the Case Access Portal or call the court to confirm.
You can request traffic school and pay the county's $55 fee online at cap.sb-court.org, by phone at (909) 481-4228, or in person — the only thing you can't use is the court's separate MyCitations / Ability-to-Pay fine-reduction tool, which can't sign you up for traffic school. Mail works too — if you send a check, write "traffic school" and your citation number on it. That $55 is paid to San Bernardino Superior Court and is separate from your course payment. Verify the current fee with the court — it can change.
Click "Start Free" above. There's no upfront course payment — give your school your name, date of birth, driver license number, and case/citation number so completion posts to the right case. Immediate access, self-paced lessons in English or Spanish, unlimited retries, pay only when you pass.
Pass the final and your completion is reported electronically to the court — you don't mail a certificate. Leave enough time before your due date for the court record to update.
Traffic-school completion is reported electronically, so you don't need a DMV trip just to report the course. If you need DMV services for another reason, the closest field office to the Morongo Basin is the Twentynine Palms Field Office, 3668 Adobe Road G-J, Twentynine Palms, CA 92277 — it keeps a limited weekly schedule, so confirm current open days and hours on the official DMV location finder before making the drive out from Joshua Tree or Yucca Valley. Check your citation first; the court listed there controls where the case is handled.
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