Palm Springs, California

USA / California / Cathedral City /
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Palm Springs is a famed Riverside County, California, desert resort city, approximately 110 miles east of Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 42,807. Palm Springs contains some of the world's most famous golf courses. Swimming, tennis, horseback riding, and hiking in the nearby desert and mountain areas are other major forms of recreation in Palm Springs. It is one of nine adjacent cities that make up the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area). The area code for Palm Springs is 760. The ZIP codes for Palm Springs are 92262 through 92264.

Once known as the "Playground of the Stars," Palm Springs is a small city with the legacy, amenities, and history of a large, cosmopolitan city. Palm Springs lies at the foot of one of Southern California's most majestic mountain peaks, 10,834-foot-tall Mount San Jacinto, whose eastern flank abuts downtown.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Springs,_California
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Coordinates:   33°46'22"N   116°33'43"W

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  • Awsome...
  • Wish I could live there.
  • no you don't - it gets 120 degrees in the summer and is way too expensive
  • Eegah! was film here, which is enough to condemn it forever.
  • Wasn't "Eegah" riffed on Mystery Sciencce Theater 3000?
  • I live here and it's great. Snow ski and surfing in the same day.
  • There is one good café here where one could drink either café au lait or café noir as café filtre.
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