4 Hidden Gem Activities Unique To The Palm Springs Area

While Palm Springs attracts thousands of tourists a year for its world famous golf courses, casinos and restaurants, there’s plenty of other unique Palm Springs activities that draw visitors and locals alike. The distinct and quintessential climate of this town combined with the stark beauty of its oasis-like scenery settled at the foot of the sublime San Jacinto Mountains, creating the perfect area for multiple natural and human made attractions.  To make sure you don’t miss out on some of the best hidden gems of Palm Springs, we’ve come up with a guide of four lesser known activities to do in the area. Aerial Tramway Experience the beauty of this paradisiacal town on the world’s largest rotating tram car from over 8,500 feet above sea level. The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway travels two and a half miles over Chino Canyon and drops visitors off at Mount San Jacinto, where they can enjoy a restaurant, scenic views and hiking trails.  Date Gardens Date crops have been growing in the Palm Springs area since the late 1800s after a successful migration experiment by the USDA upon realizing that the climate here is similar to this fruit's natural homes of North Africa and the Middle East.  Since then dates have become a staple of Palm Springs life, as evidenced by the abundance of date palm trees that line this city’s streets as well as the popularity of the Shields Date Garden, which has been around since 1924. This seventeen acre date farm is located in Indio, just a half hour from Central Palm Springs, and serves the local population as not just a great place to tour these gorgeous gardens, but also to stock up on these delicacies in a number of varieties, as well as their famous date shakes.  Twin Palms Estate, or “The Sinatra House” Situated in the Movie Colony / El Mirador neighborhood of Palm Springs, this house boasts a layout that’s spread out over 4,500 square feet and contains 4 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms.  Also known as the “Sinatra House” as it was commissioned to be built in 1947 by Ol’ Blue Eyes and lived in by the singer from 1947 until 1954, this spectacle of a house is now available to stay in as an AirBNB, where you and your friends can live like Sinatra himself.  Many cite Twin Palms Estate as one of the early influences of Mid Century Modernism and an early prototype for what we now call “desert modernism.” Designed by seminal mid century modernist E. Stewart Williams, this historic house has many intriguing features, but its most famous is probably the piano shaped pool in its backyard.  Golf Cart Parade With a different theme every year, the Golf Cart Parade is an annual     

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