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Visit Palm Springs California
By David G. Hallstrom, Sr., Mon Dec 26th

The playground of Palm Springs, California is less than a twohour drive from most cities in Los Angeles, Orange and San DiegoCounties and less than an an hours drive from the cities ofRiverside and San Bernardino. It is approximetly 130 miles fromthe Los Angeles International Airport and 100 miles from theOrange County John Wayne Airport.

Whether you like sitting around the pool at a luxury hotel,dining at fine dining establishments, golfing at some of thebest golf courses in the nation, hiking in the nearby mountains,playing tennis on top rate courts, gaming at indian casinos,partying at exclusive night spots, mountain and trail bikeriding, spending the day or week being pampered at a luxuriousspa, shopping in designer stores or celebrity gazing, you can doit all year long in or near Palm Springs.

Palm Springs is a desert city, surrounded and sheltered bymountains and sits approximately 466 feet above sea level. It'saverage yearly high temperature is in the high eighties, it'saverage yearly low temperature is in the mid fifties and it'saverage yearly rainfall is less than eight inches. This makesPalm Springs a city that can be enjoyed any time of the year.

Play golf where the pros play. The Palm Springs area has over100 beautiful, exquisitely maintained golf courses, some ofwhich are famous throughout the world. Play tennis at some ofthe best tennis courts and clubs around. If you like shopping,you will find a myriad of art galleries, antique shops, designerboutiques, craft shops, jewelry stores, malls and shoppingcenters, carrying almost anything you might wish to purchase. Bepampered like royalty, stay in luxury hotels and spas like theHilton Palm Springs, the Palm

Springs Riviera Resort & RacquetClub, the Hyatt Regency Suites, the Parker Meridien PalmSprings, the Spa Resort Casino, the Wyndham Palm Springs Hoteland dozens of others. Relax and rejuvenate is one of the manyhealth and beauty spas that Palm Springs is famous for. Take a2.5 mile ride up the mountain on the Palm Springs AerialTramway. Visit the Moorten Botanical Gardens with it's naturetrails and over 3,000 varieties of cacti, succulents andflowers. Tour the Joshua Tree National Park with it's amazingdesert scenery, rock gardens and 1000 year old Joshua Trees.Experience the culinary arts of some of the finest chefs is someof the best restaurants in the world. Party and dance at topnight clubs. Etc., Etc., Etc..

This article has barely started to cover the things you canexperience in the Palm Springs area. To cover everything wouldtake several books instead of an article. Whether you stay anight, a weekend, a week or a month you will never run out ofthings to do and experience.

For more information about the city of Palm Springs, Californiasee: http://palmsprings.usacitydirectories.com,a directory of links to the city of Palm Springs, Californiaguides and directories listing hotels, restaurants, attorneys,real estate brokers, information, resources, services, things todo, places to go and more.