salton sea 2022

Side Trips: Salton Sea and Niland

Follow Grapefruit Boulevard southeast from Indio, and you’ll hit the Salton Sea. Once envisioned to become a destination resort, nature took its toll and left the beach deserted, covered in fish bones and long-forgotten scrap.

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When you reach the Salton Sea — once considered a destination resort — nature has taken its toll and left the beach desolate and in disarray.

idyllwild day trip

Side Trips: Head up to Idyllwild

Take in the fresh mountain air of Idyllwild and explore the Nature Center, visit a brewery, or take a leisurely hike around Lake Fulmor.

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Take in the fresh mountain air of Idyllwild and explore the Nature Center, visit a brewery, or take a leisurely hike around Lake Fulmor.

Kids painting at Children's Discovery Museum

Kids’ Stuff

With the season officially over, but almost everything still open and begging for patronage, this is the ideal time to let the kids have their way throughout the valley.

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Family Day at Museums The Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert is a hands-on, intergenerational museum offering messy play, problem solving, and interactive exhibitions. We love the rope maze. Up next: the Palm Springs Air Museum, consistently ranked among the top air museums in the country. It showcases World War II combat aircraft and the museum’s location adjacent to the