More on 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...
By Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
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...
By Christopher Smith, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Sunnylands, the 200-acre Annenberg estate in Rancho Mirage that hosted five decades of political and Hollywood luminaries behind its pink...
By Rosemary McClure, Special to the Los Angeles Times
The Rat Pack lives again — or at least Palm Springs, once the party pad of Sinatra and the boys, does.
By Jordan Rane
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...
By Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times
Rocky and mostly barren, the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains southwest of Palm Springs offer terrain hospitable only to king snakes,...
Dwight Eisenhower, on holiday from the White House, whips a golf club beneath a blue October sky. Frank Sinatra, driven indoors by a...
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...
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.
By Dan Neil
Joshua Tree National Park
By Christopher Reynolds
The desert backcountry of San Diego County has always been a great place for long shadows -- the wiry ocotillo stalks at dawn, the oasis...
By Debora Vrana and staff writers
Palm Springs
By Valli Herman
Like those misguided victims on extreme makeover TV shows, so many hotels and resorts these days are renovating themselves into properties...
By Valli Herman
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...
By Pauline O'Connor
Like Frank Sinatra, Palm Springs has fallen in and out of fashion, but never out of style. Given its desert and mountain scenery, historic...
By Scott Gold
Robert julian's little neighborhood is on the southwest side of Palm Springs, where the San Jacinto Mountains begin to rise from the...
By Beverly Beyette
The first thing that caught my eye: the coyote wearing a pearl necklace.