Palm Springs, California
Nestled at the base of the majestic San Jacinto Mountains, the Palm Springs, California desert is the ancestral home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians - who have lived in the area for the last 350–500 years. The Cahuilla name for the area was "Se-Khi" or boiling water. In the early 19th century, Spanish explorers named the territory "Agua Caliente" or hot water. The current name likely came into common usage in the mid-1860s when U.S. Government surveyors noted that a local mineral spring was at the base of "two bunches of palms.” By 1884, when San Francisco attorney John Guthrie McCallum settled in Palm Springs, the name was already widely accepted.
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Palm Springs CVB
january
- HITS Thermal Desert Cities Horse Show (through March)
- The Humana Challenge
- Indio Southwest Arts Festival
- New Years Day
february
- McCormick’s Palm Springs Collector Car Auctions
- Modernism Week (through March)
- Riverside County Fair & National Date Festival
- Tour de Palm Springs Presented by CVSPIN
march
- BNP Paribas Open
- Fashion Week El Paseo
- Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Foundation Celebrity Invitational
- La Quinta Arts Festival
- Kraft Nabisco Championship (through April)
april
- Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
- Desertscapes
- Indian Wells Arts Festival
- Palm Springs Photo Festival
may
- Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival
june
- Palm Springs International Film Festival
- Palm Springs International ShortFest
- Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week
july
- Palm Desert Fourth of July Celebration
august
- Idyllwild Jazz Festival
october
- Halloween
- Palm Desert Golf Cart Parade
- Palm Springs Tram Road Challenge
november
- Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival
- Gay and Lesbian Tennis Association Palm Springs Open
- Indio Powwow
- Jacqueline Cochran Air Show
- Pride in the Desert
- Thanksgiving
december
- Christmas Day
- Indio International Tamale Festival
- New Years Day
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