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 California Escape: Palm Springs uncovered

California Escape: Palm Springs uncovered

It's understandable why, as wintry weather sets in elsewhere, travelers flock to Palm Springs for warmth and sunshine. Heavy clothes are quickly replaced by T-shirts and shorts — or, at some resorts, no clothes at all. Palm Springs is a hot spot not only for snowbirds but also for those who...

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Weekend Escape: Relaxation uncovered in Palm Springs

Weekend Escape: Relaxation uncovered in Palm Springs

Palm Springs is a hot spot not only for snowbirds but also for those who choose to vacation in the buff, with the Terra Cotta Inn among...

SoCal Close-Ups: A date with the Coachella Valley

SoCal Close-Ups: A date with the Coachella Valley

Sure, you could go to the beach again. Or you could turn your back on the Pacific and head instead for a desert land of date shakes and...

 Tour luxurious Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage

Tour luxurious Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage

Sunnylands, the 200-acre Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage that hosted five decades of political and Hollywood luminaries behind its pink...

Palm Springs revival has deals for a song (or close to it)

Palm Springs revival has deals for a song (or close to it)

The Rat Pack lives again — or at least Palm Springs, once the party pad of Sinatra and the boys, does.

The Willows: A hidden retreat in Palm Springs

The Willows: A hidden retreat in Palm Springs

A decade ago, when my wife and I were honeymooning on Italy's Amalfi Coast, we'd talked — maybe even vowed — to return there for...

Palm Springs' 'goat trails' by mountain bike

Palm Springs' 'goat trails' by mountain bike

Rocky and mostly barren, the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains southwest of Palm Springs offer terrain hospitable only to king snakes,...

A visit to 1959 Palm Springs

A visit to 1959 Palm Springs

Dwight Eisenhower, on holiday from the White House, whips a golf club beneath a blue October sky. Frank Sinatra, driven indoors by a...

San Gorgonio windmills can teach you a lot

In the Coachella Valley, you can roll along the San Andreas fault on a chuck wagon, lope through a date farm on a camel, soar above 100 golf...

Hyatt Grand Champions in Indian Wells: Bring on the heat

Never mind that it's 108 in the shade. At the Hyatt in Indian Wells, low-rate specials with cool activities appeal to kids and adults.

A desert hike through Joshua Tree with high tech

A desert hike through Joshua Tree with high tech

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In Borrego Springs, development dreams -- and pitfalls

In Borrego Springs, development dreams -- and pitfalls

The desert backcountry of San Diego County has always been a great place for long shadows -- the wiry ocotillo stalks at dawn, the oasis...

Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs

Pool-centric Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa emerges from a makeover

Like those misguided victims on extreme makeover TV shows, so many hotels and resorts these days are renovating themselves into properties...

Seeking more TLC at Palm Springs' Colony Palms Hotel

If you're not careful these days, you can fall victim to a mind-altering infection. I call it the Price Perception Plague. It has already...

Palm Springs, a guide to its ins and outs

Like Frank Sinatra, Palm Springs has fallen in and out of fashion, but never out of style. Given its desert and mountain scenery, historic...

Palm Springs' image in book creates uproar

Robert julian's little neighborhood is on the southwest side of Palm Springs, where the San Jacinto Mountains begin to rise from the...

Ace Hotel & Swim Club is a hybrid apart in Palm Springs

The first thing that caught my eye: the coyote wearing a pearl necklace.

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