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Deserts
With its awesome landscapes and sublime winter weather, California’s desert region has a unique allure. More than five million visitors annually descend on Palm Springs and environs for club- and racket-swinging recreation and to sample nature’s raw beauty, from lush palm oases to soothing hot mineral spas.
Add a glamorous yet low-key lifestyle that’s being reinvigorated and reconceived with a youthful new Hollywood energy. No wonder “It’s hot!” has new meaning for a cross-spectrum of travelers thrilled by Palm Springs’ newfound desert-cool sensibility. After all, where else can you golf in the morning, go snowshoeing in the afternoon, and enjoy a chilled martini by the pool in the evening?
An easy 90-minute drive from Los Angeles, “Palm Springs” is understood as the entire Coachella Valley, comprising eight “desert resort communities” clustered at the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains. They merge into one another along Highway 111—one of California’s great urban drives. The physical setting is out of this world. Majestic mountains soar on three sides, glistening with snow in the winter sunshine.