Palm Springs, California City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Palm Springs, California Travel Guide has been your connection to Palm Springs's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Communities of Palm Desert
 The desert of the Palm Springs in Coachella Valley is home to several small communities that hug the San Jacinto, San Gorgonio and Santa Rosa Mountains. Each is distinctively different in flavor. Palm Springs is the largest of the towns featuring a faster pace of life. It is home to upscale hotels and bed & breakfasts, fine restaurants and shopping galore. If you had to describe Palm Springs in one word it would be shopping.
Heading south on Hwy 111 is Cathedral City a small residential community known for its perfect location. From Cathedral City residents can have the best of all worlds, fabulous shopping, restaurants and activities are just around every corner in whatever direction they choose to go.
Palm Desert has a peaceful and restful quality. It is home to The Living Desert and Shadow Mountain Resort. There is plenty to do there with golf, museums and more shopping but the pace is slower and there are more family activities.
Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells and La Quinta are known worldwide as a golfing paradise with more than 100 courses, with championship as well as par threes that challenge golfers of all abilities. Home to the Bob Hope Desert Classic and the Dinah Shore Nabisco Women's Championship, to name a few, bring scores of visitors and celebrities to the desert. It is also home to most of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the desert.
Indio is the last town before Hwy 111 reaches Hwy 10 again. It is the largest of the eight cities that comprise the Palm Springs Desert Resorts area. It is known as the City of Festivals and hosts something for everyone throughout the year. |
