Palm Springs Attractions and Desert Landmarks Worth Your Time

Famous and worth it are two different questions, and this valley has landmarks in both categories.

These cover the big ones — Indian Canyons, The Living Desert, the Tramway — and answer what people actually want to know before committing an afternoon and a parking fee. Is it worth it with kids. How long you really need. When the crowds land. What the admission gets you once you're through the gate.

Where something's overrated, that's stated plainly. Nobody needs another page describing a landmark in the exact tone of a brochure written by the landmark.