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Attractions near Indio

Shields Date Gardens, the place to visit in Indio

Each year, some 2.9M people go to Joshua Tree National Park. Mapped inside Indio is one place to visit, and within 40 miles another 17. The mix takes in 6 museums, 3 gardens and 2 lakes. Set 42 mi out, San Gorgonio Mountain makes a day trip.

Attractions nearby
30
within 60 miles
The big one
9 mi
Joshua Tree National Park
National park units
1
parks & monuments
Ski areas
3
Snow Valley Mountain Resort
Big draws
2
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
National Park · 9 mi northeast

Joshua Tree National Park

National park of the United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

The places, mapped

The map stretches to Lake Cahuilla, 39 mi away.

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Orange: Indio. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

The list in full

The one inside Indio comes first, then 29 more within 60 miles.

The places inside Indio lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Indio → · Indio’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Shields Date Gardens: Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

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