10-April 2011: But perhaps more practically speaking from a pricing standpoint, $12.50 per person was one of the cheaper alternatives considering that most visitors to Palm Springs could blow off a lot more money on spas, golf, shopping (at the nearby Cabazon outlet), or trying their luck at one of the casinos, among other things. Day trippers like us (from nearly two hours away) didn’t fit their typical profile of a visitor.

From the literature, we learned that they did clean up this trail from graffiti and transients (using the canyon illegally) as well as maintain the trail. Before 2001, this trail was closed to the public…

• LONG TIME TO GET STARTED
• EASIER THAN WE THOUGHT

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