The communities that make up the Coachella Valley offer a host of art and cultural events, entertainment, open-air bazaars, great shopping, and unparalleled recreation.

Visitors and conventioneers will enjoy major orchestral, dramatic, and musical entertainment at the McCallum Theatre and thrill to concerts, ballet, opera, symphony, and Broadway productions at the Annenberg Theater.

     You’ll be in awe at the rare and endangered animals and desert flora offered at the serene, 1,200-acre Living Desert in Indian Wells.

     Special annual events that desert callers won’t want to miss are two Palm Springs International Film Festivals (January and August) and the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival held in February in Indio.

     Sports enthusiasts can watch the professionals of world-class tennis (Masters Series Tournament) and golf (Bob Hope Desert Classic, Nabisco Championship, and Palm Springs Celebrity Golf Classic). For the avid golfer, the natural beauty of the desert and the professionally created course designs offer challenging and pleasurable golfing on more than 100 of America’s top golf courses.

      Above all of this, a ride in one of the world’s largest rotating tramcars at the Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs could be the high point of a visit to the Coachella Valley. The ride provides a spectacular 360-degree view of the valley floor and surrounding mountain area as it climbs the steepest vertical cable rise in the United States. The 15-minute trip – 8,516 feet up Mt. San Jacinto – displays the flora and fauna that approximate the varieties of vegetation and animal life that could be found on a trip from Mexico’s warm Sonora Desert to the alpine wilderness of Alaska.