I really love to see the new streets the crews are working on while we all pass, when I'm driving…read moredown Long Canyon Road it's a nice windy less narrow road. I feel the traffic flowing right! I love checking out those large Palms and the other thing is I will I planning is a definite trip there. It looks relaxing.

Five stars for another wonderful trail near Desert Hot Springs. It is great to see nature being…read morepreserved and also made accessible for everyone to enjoy. The city of Desert Hot Springs is making a concerted effort to create and maintain great hiking opportunities and Long Canyon Trail is the latest example. My trip out to the trailhead on a weekday offered some interesting sights along the way: two folks engaging in what looked like target practice and another fellow perhaps sampling some natural herbs. If you plan to hike, I'd make sure you go with a group. And don't forget water, sunscreen and a hat. Free parking and no entrance fee.

Nice place for a walk and the scenery was great. I will admit I didn't follow all the posts showing…read morethe trail, I ended up walking an extra 2 miles. I'm not complaining though. The walk is well marked, slot canyons and all. I'm glad I did it early morning, used 1.5 liters of water. I'd like to walk it again

This review is for the East Indio Hills Badlands which was a ~5.2 mile round trip that took ~ 2.5…read morehours to complete. Parking is on the dirt road. This trailhead seemed popular especially since it's close to the city. For this particular trail, you follow the signs for Indio Hills Badlands. It's straightforward for the most part but also recommend downloading the map from AllTrails in case you need it. Trail was comprised of sand and dirt. Plenty of rock formations throughout the hike and awesome views at higher elevation. This hike sort of reminds me of a mix of Slot Canyon in Anza Borrego and Vasquez Rocks in Agua Dulce. Short video of the hike for those interested! https://youtu.be/1VuvNgk-sJg

This was a quick hike with some steep parts to get the heart pumping. Pretty panoramic views and…read morefree shaded parking at the civic center at the bottom of the hill.

I loved this trail. It was a fun and easy and scenic hike. It is pretty easily marked but got a…read morelittle confusing when it connected up with other trails. There are a few over looks that you can walk out and see the view. It kind of just ends at the top at the Ritz hotel and then you aren't really sure where to go. If the Ritz were open it would have been a nice place to stop and geta little bite to eat or a drink, but it was still closed due to COVID 19. We were thankfully that it was a nice walk down the road back to the parking lot at city hall. Not for little kids as there is quite the dropoff and is no guard rails.

We got the scoop about this hike while sitting around the pool at the Palm Springs Tennis Club. It…read morewas suggested that we hit the trailhead around 7AM to avoid the heat. We got there at 7:30, but still managed just fine thanks to a little breeze. Bring water and make sure you apply sun screen. You will need shoes with good grip, the first half can can be steep, but it all lends to great views of Palm Springs. The trail is well marked with white dots spray painted on the rocks throughout. Depending on how you go about your hiking expedition, it can be quite short if you turn around at the picnic benches, but still a fun adventure. We pressed on and enjoyed the loop hike we scouted out. There's plenty of parking at the base (which is at the museum), technically you're not supposed to park in the museum lot, but there's also a large free garage right across the street. At the top there are a ton of picnic tables, and you can choose to go back down or continue on to the North Lykken, South Lykken, or Skyline Trails. The trail splits when you see the large PILE of rocks, this will speak for itself. We continued on the North Lykken trail (left/downward) which made for a perfect 4 mile loops from our front door. The museum trail is a great way to get moving and get some beautiful views of Palm Springs! I would love to do this hike every day, it is a good workout, the roundtrip took us about 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Very steep hike with great views of Palm Springs. The trail is well marked with white dots spray…read morepainted on the rocks throughout. It's quite short but very steep so bring plenty of water and be prepared to use your legs! There's plenty of parking at the base--you're not supposed to park in the museum lot, but there's also a large free garage right across the street. At the top there are a ton of picnic tables, and you can choose to go back down or continue on to the North Lykken, South Lykken, or Skyline Trails. The museum trail is a great way to get moving and get some beautiful views of Palm Springs!

I love visiting the Whitewater preserve. It's a beautiful, peaceful, and friendly Godlike gorgeous…read moreplace. If you y want stunning photo ops, or just know experience peaceful on Earth, visit Whitewater.

Hiked there often. Love the small trail. There is also a…read morevisitors center there which is interesting.

It was a very chilly & windy day in Desert Hot Springs yesterday but we decided to tackle this…read moretrail anyway. We parked on the street and followed the markings to the entrance. It started out pretty simple and not very challenging. However, the higher up we climbed the more I got blown around...and not in a "good way" if ya know what I mean! Lol. The trail heading down was very steep, sandy & rocky with not much traction. We had to go down side ways to avoid slipping on our buttocks. Once we were 1/2 way down it was less intense and we weren't concerned about slipping. The views were incredible! Lots of desert plants were flowering. From start to finish it was less than a mile. Plenty of resting spots. I would like to come back when it's not so darn windy...but lately it's always windy in DHS. Oy!

What a delightful hike! Incredible twilight views with the sky turning into a thousand different…read morecolors. Will never got this evening.

Beautiful, moderately challenging hike with great views of downtown and North Palm Springs. I…read morespontaneously decided to do the Museum Trail to North Lykken and then walked back to the parking by the museum along the streets. It took about 2 hours in total. The North Lykken trail is definitely a little less steep than the Museum Trail but has equally beautiful views. Be aware that this trail is NOT well marked. If I hadn't been hiking around other people who knew where they were going I definitely would have gotten lost several times. The loop between North Lykken, South Lykken, and the Museum Trail is also pretty confusing so make sure you're on the right path. Especially because many people do this as a point-to-point trail (like I did) instead of out-and-back, I wish the markings were a bit clearer. On the bright side, you're not exactly out in the wilderness so you should have cell service the whole time.

This trailhead at the dead-end of west Ramon Road is another way to access the Skyline Trail, as is…read morebarely discernable on the typically old, clouded, scratched plexiglass covered sign in its parking area (which is why it's good to check caltopo.com before doing a new hike - I've found it to be more accurate than alltrails.com). But this trail is worthwhile in itself. At the start it directly and intimately overlooks the Historic Tennis Club neighborhood and its beautiful old estates - probably the nearest ones have to forget about any nude sunbathing in their back yards. I hadn't been here in quite a while - when I arrived, slowly passing by the empty new development on my left, it was kind of eerie like one of China's just-built but uninhabited "ghost cities." I mention it only because I was gobsmacked to see what an awesome landscaping job they did - the view hasn't been marred by a nearly treeless bunch of homes as I'd expected. Suddenly I've got to know all about the transplantation of fully grown trees! Leaving your car at the trailhead seems safer now that the housing development appears to be nearly finished. The trail doesn't get much traffic so on a weekday summer morning I was surprised to see several vehicles arrive and park here over about 20 minutes. But as I watched, only the occupants of one of them headed to the trail. The others appeared to be here to rendezvous for who knows what. Seems like an out-of-the-way place for drug deals, so most likely it was just international espionage. That would explain the van. You don't have to climb very high to gain some gorgeous panoramic views of our amazing valley. At first the trail seems suited for the rehabilitating and/or bad knees crowd, but it gets steep/rocky/tricky soon enough. Watch out for snakes as there are a lot of dark crevices that you need to step near. It's basically a shadeless hike but a little off-trail I found an exception to that and have, in seated and still shaded comfort at 9:00am, been watching a pair of hummingbirds a few feet away and tennis games below and replaying the score from "Out of Africa" in my head while writing this. That's how well retired folks multi-task. As you can tell by my rambling review I'm in no hurry to leave! I found the path to be fairly clean but there's evidence of idiot invasions too. At one spot some partiers left behind beer bottles, KFC boxes, and a padded bra. Yes they did. So doubtless it was a night-time view they were after, among other things. Well **** them for leaving trash, but I got paid for packing it out since they were evidently too drunk or drugged or after-glowy to notice they'd dropped some money along with their garbage. I love it when that happens.

I love this particular location for easy to moderate day hiking. It's *way* out in Thousand Palms…read more(literally at the end of Ramon road when it changes names). There is a small but informative visitor center (that is almost always looking for volunteers, so if you live out here full time consider volunteering!) and rest rooms at the parking area, and then a number of hikes out from there. The preserve sits directly on the San Andreas fault, so some of the hikes follow it for a bit. My favorite hike so far has been out to McCallum Oasis, where a permanent "pond" sits under a grove of huge palm trees. The trails are usually well marked, though sometimes you might have to go scrambling. The terrain is mostly flat, though, with the exception of a few major hills. Do note that this is 'middle of the desert' hiking - there is not much to see if you are not looking to walk/admire the natural beauty of a desert landscape. Also it *is* out in the desert - with the exception of some of the oases (oasi?) there is not a lot of shade either. Bring lots of water, and avoid the high heat of the mid-day. Also I noted that it 'feels' like you do more walking/hiking on softer sand here than other places that I have been (Indian Canyons, Big Morongo, municipal trails, etc.). That makes some hikes take slightly longer as I find walking on soft sand to be more strenuous. The preserve is free though $5 donation for parking is asked for (but not insistently - the first few times I went I didn't see the sign asking for the parking fee, didn't pay, and wasn't harassed about it). Also one other tip - the Circle K gas station just up the road (at the corner of Ramon and I think Monterey) always has the absolute cheapest gas, and does not charge you extra for using a credit card. I always make it a point to get gas when I'm leaving after my hike.

This is a pleasant walk. My husband and I spent about an hour walking two miles through an oasis,…read morethen desert, then more oasis. We were amazed by the temperature difference under the palm trees. I almost gave this four stars because it was fairly crowded. We went on a Tuesday, and it was still busy. The parking lot was filled so we had to park on the road. Which may have been a positive because the parking lot was dirt. Definitely not a good choice for a weekend afternoon. On the positive side they do have two porta potties available.