Aerial Desert Floor

If you re like me you ve driven interstate 10 many times and passed right by the palm springs aerial tramway sign just west of this most famous desert home of the fords the bonos the hopes and other retired well heeled of the desert.

Aerial desert floor.

The popular palm springs aerial tramway that takes visitors from the desert floor up to a high point on mt. Palm springs aerial tramway. San jacinto reopened monday morning. Taking a trip on the palm springs aerial tramway can be great.

Desert floor to mountain meadows see 9 174 traveler reviews 5 213 candid photos and great deals for palm springs ca at tripadvisor. The palm springs aerial tramway in palm springs california is the largest rotating aerial tramway in the world. The popular aerial tramway that takes visitors from the desert floor in palm springs up into the san jacinto mountains will be closed at least until april 1 because of damage from recent storms. It had been shut for maintenance since sept.

Some people freak out on the tram ride just a heads up. Ascend two and one half miles to a pristine wilderness aboard the world s largest rotating tramcar. It was opened in september 1963 as a way of getting from the floor of the coachella valley to near the top of san jacinto peak and was constructed in rugged chino canyon before its construction the only way to the top of the mountain was to hike hours from idyllwild. Then sakai and his colleagues handed the algorithm a massive set of high resolution aerial photos of the desert floor.

I mean one minute you are on the scorching hot desert floor but then after a short drive up to the valley station 2 643 ft and a 12 minute ride on a rotating tram car later you are 8 516 feet above sea level in the beautiful southern california mountains. The tram is the world s largest rotating ariels tramway starting in the sonoran desert and ending in an alpine zone. Half of the fun is taking the tram to mountain station.