Sun-Soaked Resort with Mountain Views in Downtown Palm Springs

Palm Mountain Resort is within walking distance of downtown Palm Springs’ trendy shops and international restaurants. After a day exploring the area’s attractions, you can unwind poolside, lying in the sun. Spend the night in a spacious guest room equipped with a refrigerator, microwave, and flat-screen television; many units also have private balconies or patios.

With one of this Getaway’s options, you get a $25 dining credit at Matchbox, a nearby restaurant serving artisan thin-crust pizza, gourmet sandwiches, and more. Two options include passes to Wet ‘n’ Wild water park, where you can zip down water slides and float on a lazy river.

The Palm Mountain Resort & Spa is adding 20 new guest rooms, an atrium lobby and a new day spa salon. The hotel lobby and parking lot will be affected while this work is being done. The work is expected to be completed in June or July of 2015. Renovation work will only be conducted during business hours on weekdays. Every effort will be made to minimize noise and disturbance.

Palm Springs, California: SoCal Resort Town with Midcentury Charm

Palm Springs is an oasis of outdoor recreation and old Hollywood glamour located about 100 miles from Los Angeles. Once the stomping grounds of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and the Rat Pack, the town still attracts A-list vacationers today. A stroll through the Movie Colony—which had its heyday between the 1930s and 1960s—will take you past the former homes of Dean Martin, Bob Hope, and Marilyn Monroe.

Palm Springs is also the birthplace of desert modernism, a Bauhaus-influenced architecture movement. You can explore the area’s famed midcentury-modern landmarks on a self-guided tour; grab a map at the Palm Springs Official Visitors Center, itself housed in an iconic building—a retro-futuristic Tramway Gas Station designed by Albert Frey. Furniture and clothing boutiques along Palm Canyon Drive embrace Palm Springs’s trademark aesthetic—what you might call Mad Men West. Nearby, the small but impressively curated Palm Springs Art Museum features works by Pablo Picasso and Robert Rauschenberg along with significant contemporary and Native American collections.

The sun shines more than 300 days a year in Palm Springs, which means you can play a round of golf or hike in the nearby Agua Caliente Indian Canyons no matter the season. It’s worth taking a ride on the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, whose cars rotate 360 degrees as they carry passengers to Mount San Jacinto’s Mountain Station, located 8,516 feet above sea level. About 40 miles northeast is the nearly 800,000-acre Joshua Tree National Park, which spans parts of the Colorado and Mojave Deserts. Hit one of the 12 nature trails for a chance to see desert bighorn sheep, snakes, and black-tailed jackrabbits.

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