Palm Springs for visitors and desert locals
Make more of the desert
Plan a Palm Springs escape, rediscover your own backyard, or find something worth leaving the pool for.
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Good Reasons to Get Out
Coming Up in the Desert
Architecture, classic cars, and local nights worth making plans for. Pick an event, then follow the guide for tickets, logistics, and ways to round out your visit.
Oct. 15–18, 2026 · Palm Springs
Modernism Week, Your Way
Choose your home tours, map your stops, and leave time to enjoy the city between them.
Make a trip of it: Explore Historic Hotel Stays.
Nov. 20–22, 2026 · Palm Springs
A Weekend at McCormick’s
Browse the classics, watch the auction block, and know what to expect before you arrive.
More to explore: Classic Car Events in the Desert.
Thursday Evenings · Palm Springs
Meet You at VillageFest
Local makers, street-fair energy, and a downtown evening with room for a dinner detour.
Round out the night: Downtown Dining.
Nov. 12–15, 2026 · La Quinta
A Day at La Quinta Art Celebration
Meet artists, browse the displays, and plan an outdoor art outing at La Quinta Civic Center Park.
Make a trip of it: Explore La Quinta Resort.
Start where you are
What sounds good today?
A first desert visit and a free Saturday call for different plans. Choose the path that fits, then follow the details as far as you need.
Plan less. Desert more.
Book your trip
Bring the pieces of your desert escape together, from the right home base to packages, transportation, and experiences worth reserving ahead.
Browse by experience
Choose your desert mood
Go high, stay cool, lean into the arts, or surrender to a mineral bath. Palm Springs has range.
Adventures & Excursions
Desert trails, mountain escapes, and memorable day trips for every elevation and season.
Arts & Culture
Museums, design, performance, and the creative history that gives the desert its distinctive point of view.
Entertainment & Nightlife
Shows, film, casinos, live entertainment, and evenings that continue well after the sun slips behind the mountains.
Wellness & Relaxation
Hot springs, destination spas, restorative stays, and quieter ways to spend a desert day.
Shopping & Local Finds
Independent favorites, recurring markets, destination shopping, and places worth a deliberate detour.
Tours & Guided Experiences
Architecture, culture, nature, and expert-led outings that reveal more than a drive-by view ever could.
Worth Exploring
A memorable home base, an evening out, or a different kind of desert day. Start with these guides, then browse more local favorites below.
Stay Somewhere With a Story
Old Hollywood and Desert Hideaways
Compare historic hotels with garden cottages, midcentury architecture, and a sense of desert history.
Palm Desert
An Evening on El Paseo
Pair a little browsing with dinner and discover Palm Desert’s shopping district at your own pace.
More Desert Favorites
Whitewater Preserve: Wildlands, Wildlife & Desert Trails
Plan a Whitewater Preserve visit with current rules, nature and hiking options, seasonal safety, camping guidance and official links.
Palm Springs VillageFest: Thursday Nights, Local Makers & Street-Fair Energy
Plan a Thursday evening at Palm Springs VillageFest, with seasonal hours, vendor mix, downtown logistics and ideas for fitting the street fair into a trip.
Moorten Botanical Garden: Cacti & Old Palm Springs Charm
Plan a Moorten Botanical Garden visit with seasonal hours, visit-length guidance, heat considerations, accessibility notes and official links.
The River at Rancho Mirage: Waterfront Dining & a Desert Night Out
Plan an outing to The River at Rancho Mirage with current dining, cinema and activity guidance, seasonal considerations and verified official links.
Make it your trip
Guides for how you actually travel
Start with the kind of day, weekend, or season you want. Then use the deeper guides to compare the details.
Choose the right home base
Compare downtown convenience, resort amenities, distinctive smaller stays, and responsibly managed vacation rentals.
Beat-the-heat inspiration
Build hot-weather days around indoor discoveries, early starts, evening plans, and cooler high-elevation escapes.
Don’t have a date? Never a problem in the desert
The desert is known for date shakes, date ice cream, date festival, and so many more permutations of delicious. Like your local Dubai!
Play it or watch it
Sports belong in the desert
Golf, tennis, pickleball, major tournaments, and Coachella Valley Firebirds hockey make the desert as appealing to competitors and fans as it is to pool loungers. Dedicated sports guides are in development, but you can start with arena planning and current events now.
Explore beyond Palm Springs
Find your place in the Valley
Choose a home base, plan a neighboring-city day trip, or discover something new close to home.
Happening in the desert
Seasonal picks and recurring favorites
The desert changes with the calendar. Cooler trail days, holiday traditions, festival weekends, and summer strategies all deserve their own kind of plan.
Around the Valley
Local updates, thoughtfully curated
Although we highlight key openings, closures, community announcements, and visitor-impacting updates here, Palm Springs Review highly recommends you support our local newspaper The Desert Sun for comprehensive local reporting and news.
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