Family Activities - Palm Springs

• Boomers! – 67-700 E. Palm Canyon Dr., Cathedral City (760) 770-7522 www.boomersparks.com
• Cabot’s Old Indian Pueblo and Museum – 67-616 E. Desert View Ave., Desert Hot Springs. (760) 329-7610. www.cabotsmuseum.org
• Children’s Museum of the Desert – The focus of this hands-on children’s museum is professions and vocations. 71-701 Gerald Ford Dr., Rancho Mirage (760) 321-0602 www.cdmod.org
• Dinosaur Gardens – 5800 Seminole Dr., Cabazon.
• Hi-Desert Nature Museum – 57116 Twentynine Palms Highway, Yucca Valley. (619) 329-7212
• Joshua Tree National Monument – Two great deserts – the low Colorado and the high Mojave – come together at this dramatically beautiful 870-plus-acre park. (760) 367-5500
• Lake Cahuilla – Located south of Indio, at the intersection of Jefferson and Fifty-eighth streets, 9 miles south of Highway 111. (760) 564-4712
• Living Desert Reserve – One thousand acres of beautiful California desert are set aside and protected from development in the Living Desert Reserve; home to a wide variety of desert plants and animals. 47-900 Portolo Ave., Palm Desert (760) 346-5694
• Moortens’ Botanical Gardens – More than two thousand varieties of cactus and other desert plants from every desert in the world are arranged according to region in this botanical garden. 1701 S. Palm Canyon Dr., (760) 327-6555.
• Morongo Wildlife Reserve – Known as a wildlife sanctuary, Morongo is home for more than two hundred species of birds and 150 varieties of plant life. 690 W. Garnet Ave. (760) 251-4800
• Oasis Waterpark – 1500 Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs. (800) 247-4664
• Palm Springs Aerial Tramway – In 18 minutes, an 80-passenger car carries you up the side of Mount San Jacinto from cactus and desert sand to the cool air and evergreen trees of 8615-ft Mt San Jacinto State Park. One Tramway Rd., Palm Springs (760) 325-1391. www.pstramway.com
• Palm Springs Desert Museum – 101 Museum Dr., Palm Springs (760) 325-7186. www.psmuseum.org
• Palm Springs Skate Park – 401 S. Pavillion Way, Palm Springs (760) 323-8272
• Ruddy’s 1930s General Store Museum – 221 S. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs. (760) 327-2156.
• Shields Date Gardens – 80-225 Highway 111, Indio. (619) 347-0996.
• Village Green Heritage Center – 221 S. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs (760) 323-8297.
• Whitewater Trout Farm – Whiewater Canyon Rd., Whitewater. (760) 325-5570.