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Attractions near Palm Springs

Start with Palm Springs Air Museum: the sights of Palm Springs

Palm Springs has 47 notable places within 60 miles, among them 1 national park unit and 3 ski areas. 3 of them are inside Palm Springs. About 2.9M people a year visit Joshua Tree National Park. The trip to Salton Sea is 52 mi.

Attractions nearby
47
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

How they lie

The outermost point is Orange Empire Railway Museum, at 40 mi.

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

Everything nearby

Everything to see

It starts in town with 3 places and goes on to 44 within 60 miles.

The places inside Palm Springs 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 Springs → · Palm Springs’ history →

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

Palm Springs Air Museum: Ted Rufus Ross, CC BY 2.5 · Palm Springs Art Museum: Toohool, CC0 · Moorten Botanical Garden and Cactarium: YuriVict, Public domain · 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 · 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 · Glen Helen Amphitheater: Alonzo, CC BY 2.0 · 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 · Santa's Village: Dcsutherland, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cabot's Pueblo Museum: Jllm06, CC0 · Riverside Art Museum: Unknown, Public domain · Riverside Fox Theater: Bahugala, CC BY 2.0 · Santa Ysabel Asistencia: Tristan Loper, CC BY-SA 4.0 · California Citrus State Historic Park: MissionInn.Jim, Public domain · Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum: Alan Islas, 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 · Riverside International Automotive Museum: MissionInn.Jim, Public domain · Desert Christ Park: Zekerags, Public domain · Museum of Riverside: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain · Alta Vista Gardens: BCM11 (talk | contribs), Public domain · University of California, Riverside Botanic Gardens: Rick Sidwell, Public domain · College of the Desert Arboretum: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0

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