San Jacinto Mountains, Palm Canyon Trail, a great "tour de fronds." Indian Canyons, Palm Springs, California, USA.

The San Jacinto Mountains rise above the world's largest California Fan Palm oasis, along the Palm Canyon Trail, a great "tour de fronds." We hiked the Palm Canyon Trail to Indian Potrero Trail to Stone Pools, and looping back via Victor Trail, in the Indian Canyons, Palm Springs, California, USA. The Indian Canyons are the ancestral home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. California fan palms (Washingtonia filifera in the palm family Arecaceae) are native to the far southwestern United States and Baja California. Today's oasis environment was protected from a drying climate, restricting this cold-tolerant palm to widely separated relict groves.

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Contained in galleries: 2021 Mar 26-30: CA desert: Joshua Tree, Mecca, Indian Canyons, California: more desert sights

The San Jacinto Mountains rise above the world's largest California Fan Palm oasis, along the Palm Canyon Trail, a great "tour de fronds." We hiked the Palm Canyon Trail to Indian Potrero Trail to Stone Pools, and looping back via Victor Trail, in the Indian Canyons, Palm Springs, California, USA. The Indian Canyons are the ancestral home of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. California fan palms (Washingtonia filifera in the palm family Arecaceae) are native to the far southwestern United States and Baja California. Today's oasis environment was protected from a drying climate, restricting this cold-tolerant palm to widely separated relict groves.