Aerial Desert Floor

It had been shut for maintenance since sept.
Aerial desert floor. Taking a trip on the palm springs aerial tramway can be great. Palm springs aerial tramway. The tram is the world s largest rotating ariels tramway starting in the sonoran desert and ending in an alpine zone. If you re like me you ve driven interstate 10 many times and passed right by the palm springs aerial tramway sign just west of this most famous desert home of the fords the bonos the hopes and other retired well heeled of the desert.
Some people freak out on the tram ride just a heads up. Desert floor to mountain meadows see 9 174 traveler reviews 5 213 candid photos and great deals for palm springs ca at tripadvisor. Palm springs aerial tramway palm springs ca. San jacinto reopened monday morning.
It was opened in september 1963 as a way of getting from the floor of the coachella valley to near the top of san jacinto peak and was constructed in rugged chino canyon before its construction the only way to the top of the mountain was to hike hours from idyllwild. The palm springs aerial tramway in palm springs california is the largest rotating aerial tramway in the world. Ascend two and one half miles to a pristine wilderness aboard the world s largest rotating tramcar. Half of the fun is taking the tram to mountain station.
Then sakai and his colleagues handed the algorithm a massive set of high resolution aerial photos of the desert floor. I mean one minute you are on the scorching hot desert floor but then after a short drive up to the valley station 2 643 ft and a 12 minute ride on a rotating tram car later you are 8 516 feet above sea level in the beautiful southern california mountains. It searched for features shapes patterns of light and dark contrast and.