Ski Inn

Greater Palm Springs


For local color by the bucket and greasy burgers to boot, stop by this Salton Sea watering hole in a quasi ghost town. If you're lucky, you'll get to be there when the owners' band, Heat Hell and Winter, regales guests with 1950s cover songs. Don't leave without adding a dollar bill to the ceiling.

The name, by the way, has nothing to do with snow but hearkens to the days when water-skiing was big here.