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Golf
Various locations throughout
Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley. |
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| What skiing is to Aspen and gambling is to Las Vegas, Golf is to Palm Springs. With over a hundred Golf Courses and tournaments (Skins Game, Nabisco Dinah Shore), Palm Springs is the Golf Capitol of the World! |
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Annenberg Theater
101 Museum Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.325.4490 |
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| Located at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Annenberg Theater is a state-of-the-art 433-seat theater with continental seating and nearly perfect acoustics, home to vibrant performances of jazz, dance, comedy, classical and contemporary vocal groups, chamber ensembles |
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Art Galleries
Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs
El Paseo Drive in Palm Desert. |
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| Besides Golf and the Weather, Art is the big attraction in the Palm Springs area. There are over a hundred galleries to choose from and many are widely recognized for their ability to showcase the 'up and coming' in the art world |
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Cirque Dreams
Palm Springs Pavilion Theatre
123 North Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Toll free: 1.866.877.6779 |
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| CIRQUE DREAMS, a dreamscape of stunning imagery and extraordinary physical feats that redefine the boundaries of ingenuity and imagination, will open the brand-new Palm Springs Pavilion Theatre on Wednesday January 11, 2006. A unique and imaginative combination of colorful design and amazing performance artistry, the show is an exhilarating extravaganza that features an international cast of inventive acrobats |
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Indian Canyons
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Tribal Council Office
760.325.5673 |
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| Fifteen miles long, Palm Canyon is one of the great beauty spots in Western North America. Its indigenous flora and fauna are breathtaking contrasts to the stark, rocky gorges and barren desert lands beyond. Visit the Trading Post for hiking maps, refreshments, Indian art and artifacts, jewelry and conversational cultural lore. |
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Joshua Tree National Park
74485 National Monument Dr.
Twenty Nine Palms, CA 92277
760.367.5500 |
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| The nearly 800,000 acre park encompasses some of the most interesting geologic displays found in California's deserts. Arroyos, playas, alluvial fans, bajadas, pediments, desert varnish, granites, aplite, and gneiss interact to form a giant desert mosaic of immense beauty and complexity. |
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Moorten Botanical Gardens
1701 South Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, California 92264
760.327.6555 |
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| The Moorten Botanical Gardens boasts 3,000 examples of desert cacti and plants grouped by geographic regions: Arizona, Baja California, California, Colorado, the Mojave desert, the Sonora desert, South Africa, arid South America, and Texas. Outdoor collections include agaves, bombax and more. |
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Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262 |
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| Home of the Palm Springs Walk of Stars and beautifully lined with majestic palm trees continuously lit in a wrapping of sparkling lights, Palm Canyon Drive is a veritable goldmine of art galleries, restaurants, pubs and every kind of shop. Thursday nights are a must when the street is closed to traffic. |
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Palm Springs Air Museum
745 North Gene Autry Trail
Palm Springs, CA 92262
760.778.6262 |
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| The Palm Springs Air Museum is dedicated to the restoration, preservation and operation of America's legendary fighters, bombers and trainer. It contains one of the world's largest collections of flying WWII airplanes. |
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Palm Springs Art Museum
101 Museum Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262
561-832-1988 |
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| The 125,000-square-foot Palm Springs Art Museum's permanent collections include 20th-century modern and contemporary art, Western American and Native American art, Mesoamerican artifacts, miniatures, two sculpture gardens and more. |
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Palm Springs Convention Center
277 North Avenida Caballeros
Palm Springs, CA 92262 |
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| The Palm Springs Convention Center provides a casual but elegant ambience for conventions, exhibitions and trade shows year round. On forty magnificent acres just three blocks from chic downtown amenities and Palm Canyon Drive, the Center also provides a new dimension to corporate meetings and other events. |
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Palm Springs Follies
128 S. Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262 |
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| The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies is a three-hour, razzle-dazzle, song and dance vaudeville-style extravaganza showcasing the music and dance of the 30s and 40s with one amazing difference. |
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Palm Springs TRAM
One Tramway Road
Palm Springs, CA. 92262 |
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| Ascend 8,000 in the world's largest rotating tramcars. It is forty degrees colder at the top and a completely different world (more like the Smokey Mountains) than Palm Springs below. Great hiking and, of course, incredible views |
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Weather
Everywhere in Palm Springs! Ranked as the best weather in the USA with 350 average days of warm sunshine a year |
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| The weather is fabulous in Palm Springs because of one reason - the San Jacinto Mountains. Rising nearly vertically 9,000 feet beside Palm Springs, it is one of the steepest climbs in North America and the reason why the rain (and pollution) in Los Angeles can't get here! |
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If You Have 5 Days at the Sea Mountain Inn of the Southern California Desert
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If you have five days to spend in the desert, you'll have time to explore beyond the immediate Palm Springs area.
On your first day take in a sweeping view of the Coachella Valley from the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in the morning and stroll along Palm Canyon Drive in the afternoon. -return to the Sea Mountain for your refreshing afternoon drinks and lounge the pool and contemplate the evening that awaits with all night pools and parties
On the second morning visit the Palm Springs Desert Museum. Then grab a picnic lunch from the Sea Mountain Kitchen and head out to Indian Canyons, where you can eat by a waterfall. In the afternoon be sure to do you tandem Sea Mountain Massages - Ranked highest by SPA inc. and Healers USA and some Esalen certified therapists - The highlight of your spa encounter. By evening you'll be ready to live it up at one of the desert's nightspots like the infamous Sea Mountain Inn - Where you can dance or just rock out in a mineral water hot whirlpool
Spend days three and four at Joshua Tree National Park. You can camp in the park ask the Sea Mountain experts just where to go and pack you a lunch for the trip, just outside the park. In the evening take an hour to gaze at the stars. On day five get an early start and complete your drive through the park so you can arrive back in the Palm Springs area for lunch. Check into a spa for the afternoon, and catch the Fabulous Palm Springs Follies or South Beach Miami style nightclubs on your last night.
Alternatively, you can spend days three and four in quiet Borrego Springs, exploring the wonders of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and the Salton Sea.
On the fifth morning drive to Palm Desert to visit the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, have lunch on El Paseo, do some shopping, and head back to your hotel for one last dip in the pool and more of that all-over no tan line tanning.
Walks & Hikes in Joshua Tree
Nature Trails and Short Hikes
Arch Rock. Starting at the White Tank campground, a.3-mile loop leads to Arch Rock. Signs along the trail give information on the geology of the area and the formation of this natural arch.
Barker Dam. A 1-mile loop beginning 2 miles northeast of the Hidden Valley campground passes Barker Dam, built by early cattle ranchers to provide water for their stock. After the dam, this trail proceeds past a group of Native American petroglyphs, which, unfortunately, were once painted over by a film crew attempting to make them more visible. |
