Palm Springs has 75 hiking trails. These trails range from 1 to 20 miles in length. The most popular trails are San Jacinto Peak (Backpacking), San Jacinto Peak and San Jacinto Peak: The Easy Way. Trails.com member Helen F. recently completed Desert View Loop.
San Jacinto Peak: The Hard WayView Trail Details
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Palm Springs, CA
This hike, known as the Cactus-to-Clouds Hike by Palm Springs hiking enthusiasts, is an absolute hoot—if you survive. For three decades now, ...
Pines to PalmsView Trail Details
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Palm Canyon should be on every serious Southern California hiker’s to-do list. The canyon separates the San Jacinto Mountains and Desert Divide ...
San Jacinto PeakView Trail Details
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This rewarding trip surveys some of the best high-mountain country southern California has to offer and ends on a lofty summit that affords perhaps ...
San Jacinto Peak (Backpacking)View Trail Details
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The north face of San Jacinto Peak, at one point soaring 9000 feet up in four horizontal miles, is one of the most imposing escarpments in the ...
Santa Rosa Wilderness TrailsView Trail Details
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Santa Rosa Wilderness lies on the eastern slope of the Santa Rosa Mountains, one of southern California’s Peninsula Ranges. Many geologists consider ...
Garstin–Earl Henderson LoopView Trail Details
This loop hike takes you over a small summit at the northwest end of the Santa Rosa Mountains. It features a fine walk along a ridge with views ...
San Jacinto Peak: The Easy WayView Trail Details
San Jacinto Peak is a close second after San Gorgonio Mountain on the roster of Southern California high points, but its more sharply defined ...
Jo Pond TrailView Trail Details
The Jo Pond Trail, completed in 1994, connects Palm Canyon to the Desert Divide, relentlessly climbing Garnet Ridge to Cedar Spring. It does ...
San Jacinto Peak from the Palm Springs Aerial TramwayView Trail Details
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This is the easiest route to the summit of San Jacinto, but it is still a strenuous and rewarding hike.
San Jacinto is one of the most majestic peaks in Southern California. It is also one of the most heavily visited. The surrounding forest is supremely ...
South Ridge Trail31View Trail Details
This strenuous hike near the center of Idyllwild leads to Tahquitz Peak, the second-highest peak in California, and a lookout tower with sweeping ...
Deer Springs TrailView Trail Details
This strenuous hike heads up Deer Springs Trail via long switchbacks, then winds 1 mile east up to the top of Suicide Rock, a wide, open clearing ...
Black Mountain Road TrailView Trail Details
This hike begins about 5 miles outside of Idyllwild Village and follows a wide fire road up a relentless 2,400 feet to a campground and lookout ...
Hopalong Cassidy Trail, Palm DesertView Trail Details
This short but strenuous hike begins on the Art Smith Trail at the base of an off-leash dog park in Palm Desert and links with the 8-mile Hopalong ...
Bear Creek Canyon Oasis, La QuintaView Trail Details
This popular hike follows a canyon wash, then switchbacks up a series of hillsides, giving way to expansive views of the city of La Quinta and ...
Palm Springs Art Museum TrailView Trail Details
This popular hike begins near downtown Palm Springs and crisscrosses the mountainside, gaining 850 feet in elevation in just 1 mile. It links ...
North Lykken TrailView Trail Details
The North Lykken Trail is the north half of the 9.5-mile Carl Lykken Trail, which weaves along a series of mountain ridges above downtown Palm ...
Clara Burgess TrailView Trail Details
This hike within the Palm Springs trail system begins with a strenuous switchback climb, then levels for a mile or so of easy walking before ...
Araby TrailView Trail Details
This hike begins outside an exclusive gated community that was once home to Bob Hope and Steve McQueen, and it turns into a strenuous ascent ...
Maynard Mine TrailView Trail Details
The Maynard Mine Trail is one of the more challenging trails within the Indian Canyons trail system. It once served as the access route for a ...
This is a pleasant jaunt of switchbacks to the boundary of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. The trail heads into the ...
Canyon View LoopView Trail Details
At the right time of year, this hike, in one of the Wildlands Conservancy preserves, delivers a unique facet of the Southern California desert ...
The Jo Pond Trail is one of the highlights of the Coachella Valley. Starting in Palm Canyon, it ascends the Garnet Ridge to Cedar Spring, providing ...
Fern Canyon LoopView Trail Details
Fern Canyon is noted for its vertical wall dripping with moisture that supports hanging ferns in the midst of the arid desert. This trip explores ...
Lower Palm CanyonView Trail Details
The splendid palm canyons at the desert foot of the San Jacintos and Santa Rosas are a delight to behold. Thousands of California fan palms, ...