Salton Sea
Saline lake in Imperial and Riverside counties in California, United States.
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.

Each year, some 2.9M people go to Joshua Tree National Park. The town has no place on our list of its own; 19 are within 40 miles. Among them are 7 museums, 3 gardens and 2 mountains. Beyond the town, the best known is Niland Geyser, 52 mi off.

National park of the United States.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
The outermost point is San Gorgonio Mountain, at 39 mi.
Orange: Bermuda Dunes. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
All of it lies within 60 miles: 34 places.
Saline lake in Imperial and Riverside counties in California, United States.
National park of the United States.
Mausoleum in Cathedral City, California near Palm Springs.
National forest in California, United States.
Botanical garden and zoo in Riverside County, California.
Ski resort in Running Springs, California, United States.
Biographical museum in Chiriaco Summit, California /.
Maritime museum in North Shore, United States of America.
Ranch outpost of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel in Redlands, California.
Historic house museum in Desert Hot Springs, California Old Indian Pueblo and Old Indian Pueblo and Museum).
"Sub-mission" to Mission San Diego de Alcalá in California.
Theater and performing arts center in San Bernardino, California.
Historic date palm orchard and tourist attraction in Indio, Riverside County, California, United States.
Historic ranch, and stagecoach station in Banning, Riverside County, California..
Botanical garden in Palm Springs, California, US.
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Bermuda Dunes → · Bermuda Dunes’ history →
Salton Sea: NASA, Public domain · Joshua Tree National Park: Sergiy Galyonkin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Acrisure Arena: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0 · San Gorgonio Mountain: Doc Searls, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Niland Geyser: California Department of Transportation, Public domain · Salvation Mountain: Joe Decruyenaere, CC BY-SA 2.0 · San Jacinto Peak: Wattewyl, CC BY 3.0 · Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: No machine-readable author provided. Miskatonic assumed (based on copyright clai, CC BY 2.5 · Big Bear Lake: H.G. Judd, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Cahuilla: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Orange Empire Railway Museum: The original uploader was Pretzelpaws at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cleveland National Forest: Michael Romanov, Public domain · Riverside National Cemetery: Sigris Lopez, CC BY-SA 4.0 · San Bernardino National Forest: Scottthezombie (talk) (Transferred by JaumeBG/Originally uploaded by Scottthezom, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Living Desert Zoo and Gardens: Dsyrengelas at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · March Field Air Museum: Curimedia, CC BY 2.0 · Snow Valley Mountain Resort: Me, CC BY-SA 4.0 · General George S. Patton Memorial Museum: Chris English, CC BY-SA 3.0 · North Shore Beach and Yacht Club: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Palm Springs Air Museum: Ted Rufus Ross, CC BY 2.5 · Palm Springs Art Museum: Toohool, CC0 · Cabot's Pueblo Museum: Jllm06, CC0 · Santa Ysabel Asistencia: Tristan Loper, CC BY-SA 4.0 · California Theatre of the Performing Arts: Amerique, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Shields Date Gardens: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gilman Ranch: Jean Allsworth, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium: YuriVict, Public domain · Desert Christ Park: Zekerags, Public domain · College of the Desert Arboretum: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0