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.
14.58 MILES
Salvation Mountain is a mighty strange sight indeed: a 100ft-high hill of hand-mixed adobe and straw slathered in paint and decorated with flowers,…
26.83 MILES
Cottonwood Spring is an oasis with a natural spring that Cahuilla tribespeople depended on for centuries. Look for morteros – rounded depressions in the…
16.9 MILES
Go bananas at this endearing and bizarre collection of over 19,000 banana-related artefacts, from candles to cookie jars, hats to hangers. Dress in a…
29.7 MILES
East of Borrego Springs, a 4-mile dirt road, sometimes passable without 4WD, diverges south from County Rte S22 out to Fonts Point (1249ft). From up here…
Salton Sea State Recreation Area
14.09 MILES
This area covers 14 miles of the northeastern shore of the Salton Sea and is popular with boaters and anglers, although the fish population has been…
Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
13.76 MILES
This refuge is a major migratory stopover along the Pacific Flyway and has a visitor center with a short self-guided trail, an observation tower and a…
29.07 MILES
En route to the Salton Sea, this certified-organic date garden is handy for picking up gift boxes and yummy date shakes.
1. Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
13.76 MILES
This refuge is a major migratory stopover along the Pacific Flyway and has a visitor center with a short self-guided trail, an observation tower and a…
2. Salton Sea State Recreation Area
14.09 MILES
This area covers 14 miles of the northeastern shore of the Salton Sea and is popular with boaters and anglers, although the fish population has been…
14.58 MILES
Salvation Mountain is a mighty strange sight indeed: a 100ft-high hill of hand-mixed adobe and straw slathered in paint and decorated with flowers,…
4. International Banana Museum
16.9 MILES
Go bananas at this endearing and bizarre collection of over 19,000 banana-related artefacts, from candles to cookie jars, hats to hangers. Dress in a…
26.83 MILES
Cottonwood Spring is an oasis with a natural spring that Cahuilla tribespeople depended on for centuries. Look for morteros – rounded depressions in the…
29.07 MILES
En route to the Salton Sea, this certified-organic date garden is handy for picking up gift boxes and yummy date shakes.
29.7 MILES
East of Borrego Springs, a 4-mile dirt road, sometimes passable without 4WD, diverges south from County Rte S22 out to Fonts Point (1249ft). From up here…