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Attractions near Palm Desert

College of the Desert Arboretum, the place to visit in Palm Desert

About 2.9M people a year visit Joshua Tree National Park. The town itself has one place on our list; 18 others are within 40 miles. Among them are 7 museums, 3 gardens and 2 mountains. Set 41 mi out, Salton Sea makes a day trip.

Attractions nearby
38
within 60 miles
The big one
12 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 · 12 mi northeast

Joshua Tree National Park

National park of the United States.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

What’s around Palm Desert

The list reaches out to Cleveland National Forest, 39 mi away.

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

Everything nearby

The full list

After the one in town come 37 more within 60 miles.

The places inside Palm Desert 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 Palm Desert → · Palm Desert’s history →

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

College of the Desert Arboretum: Unknown, 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 · San Diego Zoo Safari Park: Flickr user: Olivier Bruchez https://www.flickr.com/photos/bruchez/, 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 · Santa's Village: Dcsutherland, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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 · Classic Rotors Museum: Hughes-MDflyer4, CC BY 3.0 · Gilman Ranch: Jean Allsworth, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium: YuriVict, Public domain · Riverside International Automotive Museum: MissionInn.Jim, Public domain · Desert Christ Park: Zekerags, Public domain · University of California, Riverside Botanic Gardens: Rick Sidwell, Public domain

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