Palm Springs RV Resort (TT) – Palm Desert CA

RATING: ♦♦♦♦
  • Dates: Sep 20, 2019 – Oct 18, 2019
  • Length of stay: 28 nights.
  • Cost per night: $0 for first three weeks + $27 for one week extension.
  • Discount: Thousand Trails Membership.
  • Hookups: 30 amp electric, water, and sewer. 
  • Site number/quality: #152. On main street running down the middle of the park. Several streets, including ours, are newly paved as are the sites on those streets. We also have a nice concrete seating area with a picnic table. 
  • Park Quality: This park is closed during the summer. It just opened back up a few days before we arrived. Almost all the sites were empty in September. But by the beginning of October, it started to fill up. It’s justifiably very popular during the winter. 
  • Access: Easy access off I-10.
  • Connectivity: Verizon – good, AT&T – weak, and T-Mobile -strong. 
  • Return yes/no?: Yes.
  • Notes: The Palm Springs area, which is more properly known as the Coachella Valley, has grown a lot since we first started coming here back in the 1990s. Besides Palm Springs and Palm Desert, the valley contains the cities of Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, La Quinta, Indian Wells and Indio. According to Wikipedia, the valley has a total population of almost 500,000 in April, declining to around 200,000 in July and rising to around 800,000 by January. There is a large population of wintertime residents, aka snowbirds, that at peak times may surpass 100,000, with another 3.5 million annual conventioneers and tourists. As much as we like it here, there’s just a few hundred thousand too many people here.
  • Website: Palm Springs RV Resort