Luxury Hotels in Indian Wells

Choose The Purpose Of A Desert Resort Stay

Grand Hyatt Indian Wells Resort & Villas combines rooms, suites and villas with a golf setting and a water park. Those features give Indian Wells a concrete resort identity for both golfing and family holidays.

Gardens And Design In Rancho Mirage

Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage gives a regional outing a designed desert landscape. Landscape architect James Burnett took inspiration from the Annenbergs' collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. Native and arid-adapted plants from several continents form the planting palette.

Reflecting pools filled with river stones flank the centre's rear windows and patios. A labyrinth winds through rows of Wedelia on the western side. The garden is a place for an interest in landscape design and planting, distinct from a visit to a natural canyon or a round of golf.

The centre introduces Walter and Leonore Annenberg and the history of Sunnylands through multimedia interpretation. It gives context to the landscape without making a visit depend on entering the adjoining historic house.

Valley Life In Indio

The Coachella Valley History Museum in Indio approaches the desert through the people and industries that made communities here. Its Smiley-Tyler House is a former residence containing material on water and agriculture, railways, the fire department and early domestic life.

A reconstructed kitchen from the 1930s and 1940s brings household routines into the visit. Alongside the water-and-agriculture material, it offers a view of life in the valley before its identity became so closely associated with resort holidays. This is social and working history, rather than another contemporary art collection.

The California guide places a desert resort stay within a wider state journey.