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GOLF
Cimarron Golf Resort Located 3.5 Miles from the Viceroy Palm Springs 67-603 30th Avenue Cathedral City, California
Desert Willow 11 Miles from Viceroy Palm Springs Located on Desert Willow Drive off of Country Club between Cook St. and Portola Ave Palm Desert, California SHOPPING North Palm Canyon Drive (Two-and-a-half blocks west of Viceroy) www.palmsprings.com/palmcyn.html Palm Canyon Drive is the cultural artery that pulses through the historic heart of Palm Springs. Beautifully lined with majestic palm trees continuously lit in a wrapping of sparkling lights, Palm Canyon Drive (and Indian Canyon Drive beside it) fearture a goldmine of shops, restaurants, art galleries, pubs and every kind of boutique!
Desert Hills Premium Outlets (20 miles north of Palm Springs) 48400 Seminole Drive Cabazon, CA 92230 (951) 849-6641 premiumoutlets.com Barney's, YSL, Gucci and 127 others..
El Paseo Shopping District Palm Desert, CA 92260 www.palmsprings.com/elpaseo Located in Palm Desert, the world famous El Paseo Shopping District features over 300 world-class shops, clothing boutiques, art galleries, jewelers, restaurants and much, more...all lined along a beautifully maintained picture-postcard floral and statue-filled mile! Known as the Rodeo Drive of the Desert, El Paseo boasts a wide spectrum of stores from Sak's 5th Avenue to individually owned boutiques. SPA
Estrella Spa at The Viceroy Palm Springs 415 South Belardo Road Palm Springs, CA 92262 (800) 670-6184 www.viceroypalmsprings.com/spa
Spa Resort Casino 401 E. Amado Road Palm Springs, CA 92262 888-999-1955 www.sparesortcasino.com CASINOS Spa Resort Casino 401 E. Amado Road Palm Springs, CA 92262 Phone 888-999-1995 www.sparesortcasino.com Agua Caliente Casino 32-250 Bob Hope Drive Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 888-999-1995
TOURS Palms Springs Celebrity Tours 4751 East Palm Canyon Drive Palm Springs, CA 92262 (888) 805-2700 www.celebrity-tours.com
Palm Springs Modern Tours (760) 318-6118 psmoderntours@aol.com Three-hour exterior tours of midcentury-modern buildings.
HIKING & PARKS
Indian Canyons Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Tribal Council Office 760 325 5673 The Indian Canyons are the ancestral home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. You can see remnants of their ancient life: rock art, house pits and foundations, irrigation ditches, bedrock mortars, pictographs, and stone houses and shelters built atop high cliff walls. Four areas are open: Palm Canyon, noted for its stand of Washingtonia palms; Murray Canyon, home of Peninsula bighorn sheep and a herd of wild ponies; Andreas Canyon, where a stand of fan palms contrasts with sharp rock formations. Tahquitz Canyon 500 W. Mesquite, west of Palm Canyon Drive 760 416 7044 Also an Agua Caliente territory. This incredibly scenic canyon, which features the waterfall filmed for the classic Lost Horizon, was closed to the public for nearly 30 years after it was vandalized. But now the vegetation is renewed and cleaned up, and in 2001 the tribe began offering 2-hour ranger-led hikes into their most spiritual and beautiful place. The canyon is open daily from 8am to 5pm, with hikes departing every hour until 3pm. Palm Springs Tram One Tramway Road Palm Springs, CA 92262 888 515 TRAM www.pstramway.com To gain a bird's-eye perspective on the Coachella Valley, take this 14-minute ascent up 2 1/2 miles to the top of Mount San Jacinto. While the Albert Frey-designed boarding stations retain their 1960s ski-lodge feel, newly installed Swiss funicular cars are sleekly modern and rotate during the trip to allow each passenger a panoramic view. There's a whole other world once you arrive: alpine scenery, a ski-lodge-flavored restaurant and gift shop, and temperatures typically 40° cooler than the desert floor. The Living Desert Wildlife and Botanical Park 47900 Portola Avenue Palm Desert 760 346 5694 www.livingdesert.org 14.79 miles from Viceroy Palm Springs This 1,200-acre desert reserve, museum, zoo, and educational center is designed to acquaint visitors with the unique habitats that make up the southern California deserts. You can walk or take a tram tour through sectors that re-create life in several distinctive desert zones. See and learn about a dizzying variety of plants, insects, and wildlife, including bighorn sheep, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, lizards, owls, golden eagles, and the ubiquitous roadrunner.
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