Revolving, 80-passenger gondolas with picture windows ascend the vertiginous face of the San Jacinto range on cables suspended from five towers anchored in the rocky slope. The journey (10min) from the bottom station (2,643ft above sea level) to the ..

The museum offers a survey of the natural history, anthropology and art of California’s deserts. Exhibits in the Central Gallery include Native American basketry, Asian art (collected by actor William Holden), and furniture and bronze sculptures by a..

Housed in a polished contemporary structure, this museum offers an excellent overview of the natural history, cultural history and art of the California deserts. It was established in 1938 as an anthropological and natural history museum of the Coach..

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians retains ownership of three canyons in the lower slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains that contain extensive groves of fan palms (Washingtonia filifera), California's only native species of palm. Visitors may ..

Military history of World War II is the focus of this modern museum, which showcases a rotating collection of some 30 restored aircraft. Accompanied by the swinging sounds of period music, visitors can move in for up-close examination of such vintage..

In a whimsically designed alternative to the formal and scientific presentations of national and state-park botanical displays, a profusion of strange and curious plants from the world's deserts flourishes here in a dense diversity usually associated..