Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer with her top things to do in Palm Springs

People will be flocking to Palm Springs over the next couple of weeks for Coachella 2025, but BloggerAtLarge's Megan Singleton promises there's more to see than music festivals.

Between the iconic Joshua trees, the resorts, the mountain tours and the dining options, Megan's revealed how you can make the most of Palm Springs.

Read more about Megan's top picks here.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks, EDB Travel with Windy Woo Tours Where
the world is yours for now?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wow, a little bit of Lady Gaga. She has opened
coach Halla twenty twenty five. This is where all the
cool people are this weekend in Palm Springs. It's where
Megan was last weekend having a ball, and she joins me. Now,
good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Lady Gaga is the only name I recognized from the
entire lineup. I don't know if you don't look.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't know if any they say.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
It's all quite rape and DJ sets and stuff these days.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
So well, I'm sure that Palm Springs this weekend is
a little bit different to how the last weekend. Yes,
it's a good just.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Over two weekends in a row and then people stay
during the week to do it all. Yeah, there's a
great spot. So it takes about two and a half
hours to drive there from Los Angeles Airport, pretty much
straight out east into the desert to the foothills of
the San Jacinto Mountain Range, which is actually such a
high mountain range that today I just checked it's thirty

(01:21):
four degrees as we speak. But there is snow at
the top of that mountain that's right in town that
you can just take an aerial tramway wal kilometers long
is the aerial part, and there's a cafe and restaurant
up there. So that's actually a really great spot where
the locals hit when the temperatures get into the forties,
which you know, it's only April, so that's going to

(01:42):
be happening soon. We actually had had perfect weather there
last week. It was in about the mid twenties, so
lovely time to be out and about. Yeah. Yeah, you
need that when you when you're traveling because you just
do so much walking and exploring and you know, suddenly
you find twenty five degrees hoof need you need to
have a sit down, let alone thirty five and forty five,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
What I love about this area is the Dosher Tree
National Park. There's a stunning place.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah. That takes about an hour drive too, Yeah, and
it is stunning and you can actually just drive right
through it. You do have to stop and get a
ticket for your car and stuff. Those trees look like
something out of the Doctor Zoospok. The lore axe or something,
you know, and there's lots of little areas you can
pull over and part these picnic spots. You can go
ab sailing and repelling down the big boulders massive for bottles,

(02:31):
or you can just climb up them if you want.
That's really amazing, and I'd say get there earlier in
the day because that really is the desert. And we
got there by about ten am and we got able
to drive sort of straight through, but by the time
we were leaving, cars were lining up to get into
the park. So a good tip would be getting that
done early. And then there's a really fun saloon bar

(02:53):
called Peppy and Harriet's on the way out, which I
would totally suggest pop it in your map and stop
there for lunch and just get a burger. And there's
got live music and they smoke the meats and it's
a really good spot. In fact, you can't make a reservation,
so I rocked up with fifteen people and they were like,
we've just seated forty, so no, sorry no.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
And a lot of golf courses as well, more.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Than a hundred, and you know, we're out in the
desert here, so you're talking about the watering system designed
by all the pros. So if you're on a golfing holiday,
Palm Springs is a great spot. Of course, there's the
mid century modern architecture. It's you know, you can do
a bit of culture and a bit of a bit
of fitness, and you can even go out to the
San Andreas fault Line, which about six of the ladies

(03:40):
on my tour did and they absolutely loved it, foraging
and eating the crispy little leaves. I've done it a
few years ago and that's quite fascinating.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Just so much to do, Megan. Thank you so much, Meghan.
We'll have a blog up on this at blogger at
large dot com should be covering off Palm Springs for
you there. If you want a little bit more information,
it is eleven to twelve.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
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