The River, Rancho Mirage

The River gathers restaurants, a cinema and shops around a man-made waterway, giving Rancho Mirage a place to walk in the evening. Around it sit the city's large resorts, the Eisenhower medical campus and Sunnylands.

Rancho Mirage is the valley's quiet middle: central for driving anywhere, short on street life outside this complex. It suits couples, spa trips and travellers splitting time between Palm Springs and the eastern golf cities.

Palm Springs is 15 minutes northwest; Palm Desert's El Paseo is 10 minutes east.

The River, Rancho Mirage is one of the areas we track in Rancho Mirage. This page pulls together everything on PalmSpots that sits inside it, so you can judge whether it is the right base for your trip rather than guessing from a map pin.

We do not currently list a hotel inside The River, Rancho Mirage, so most visitors stay elsewhere in Rancho Mirage and drive in.

Getting around: distances in the Coachella Valley are deceptive. Neighbouring areas look close together but the valley runs about 45 miles end to end, so plan on a car for anything outside a walkable downtown core, and budget more driving time on festival weekends when Highway 111 and the I-10 back up.

Sunnylands tour tickets are released on a rolling schedule and go quickly in season — book before you fly, not after you land.