California Desert Region Information

Please meet the Desert Forum
The forum offers details about travel to each of the nine cities and 4 towns that make up the Coachella Valley region of the Sonoran Desert in Riverside County a part of inland Southern California.

Meet the Desert Forum Coachella Valley Forum

The Coachella Valley is 45 miles in length and 15 miles wide stretching from the west at the San Gorgonio Pass to the east end at the Salton Sea. The valley’s width is separated by the Interstate 10 Freeway.

The Coachella Valley is made up of these nine cities
Desert Hot Springs, Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta, Coachella and Indio with four smaller but important unincorporated towns of Thousand Palms, Bermuda Dunes, Mecca and Thermal.

What makes up Coachella Valley
While the desert floor or basin is relatively flat with a continuous yet gradual change in elevation from the west end of the valley heading each towards the Salton Sea (the largest lake in California) and eventually out into Imperial County which is also the path of the White Water River that also runs the entire 45 mile length.

About our scenic mountains
The mountains are tall starting with the San Jacinto Mountains 10,834 feet the Santa Rosa Mountains Toro Peak at 8,716 feet making up the west and the south walls of the valley then the Little San Bernardino Mountains with the tallest peak in Southern California on Mount San Gorgonio at 11,499 feet to the north. 

The Coachella Valley once really popular by being home to Palm Springs, California the getaway of the rich and famous today has grown and the nine cities and 4 towns are seamlessly connected to one another with a current valley population of over 400,000 residents.
The valley is a popular vacation destination with East Coast residents, State of Washington residents, Canadians tourists and people from Europe all of these arrivals into our two small and one International Airport swells the population to nearly 1,000,000 people though this is only during the top of the areas season which is January 15 through April 15 each year.

What the Desert Forum offers
Everything a visitor or local would like to know about visiting or learn things as a resident about the Coachella Valley. With temperatures exceeding 121 degrees during the hottest month (Logic’s favorite month August) July and out natural beauty of mountain views along with 350 days of sunshine and blue skies even some of the cleanest drinking water in the USA it is a perfect place to visit and even better place to have the opportunity to live.

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