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A thrilling cable car ride shuttles visitors from the desert floor up almost 8,500 feet to the heights of Mt. San Jacinto, sometimes providing a 30-degree temperature ... View Details
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Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism
777 North Palm Canyon Drive
Suite 201
Palm Springs, California 92262
(760) 778-8415
www.palm-springs.org
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Imagine the desert here as the bottom of a vast sea. Many millions of years ago, that's what it was. By 10 million years ago, the waters had receded and the climate was hospitable to prehistoric mastodons, zebras, and camels. As recently as 10,000 years ago, the Colorado River still spilled into this basin intermittently, and around AD 700 Lake Cahuilla formed.... MoreLocation
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