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Renting an Apartment in Palm Desert
Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella
Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs. The
population was 41,155 at the 2000 census. Other cites in the Coachella Valley
are Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La
Quinta, Palm Springs, and Rancho Mirage. The city was one of the state's fastest
growing in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning with 11,801 residents in 1980,
doubling to 23,650 in 1990, 35,000 in 1995, and nearly double its 1990
population by 2000.
A major center of growth in the Palm Springs area, Palm Desert is a popular
retreat for "snowbirds" from colder climates (the Eastern and Northern US, and
Canada), who swell its population by an estimated 31,000 each winter. In the
past couple of years Palm Desert has seen more residents become "full-timers"
(mainly from California, who have come for affordable but high-valued home
prices). Palm Desert may have 75,000 to 85,000 inhabitants on January 1 as the
"season" peaks, which decreases by half as the hot desert summer comes by.
The City of Palm Desert is also a presenting sponsor for the Art of Food & Wine
Palm Desert. Now in its second year, this festival attracts some of the most
renowned chefs and sommeliers to the town of Palm Desert.
Palm Desert is the home of the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, a combination zoo
and botanical garden featuring an extensive collection of desert plants and
animals. It is also the site of the campus of College of the Desert, the local
community college, as well as an extension campuses for both California State
University, San Bernardino and the University of California Riverside. Palm
Desert is served by the Desert Sands Unified School District based in La Quinta
and Indio. Its main High School is Palm Desert High School (with 2500 students)
and its main Middle School (with 1600 students) is Palm Desert Middle School.
Other schools are elementary level: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Gerald
Ford, Jimmy Carter, and a new yet-to-be named grade school. Riverside County
operates San Cayetano Community School, a grade 1 to 12 educational facility.
Palm Desert has seven prominent private schools: Desert Adventist Academy, St.
Margaret's Episcopal School, Palm Desert Presbyterian School, Sacred Heart
Catholic Academy, Maywood Academy, the Learning Tree Academy, and the Palm
Desert Jewish Community School.
As the home of the pioneering band Kyuss and its successor group Queens of the
Stone Age, the Palm Desert Scene is considered one of the cradles of the stoner
rock movement. Legendary desert rocker and guitarist of both of the above
groups, Josh Homme, was born in Palm Desert. Like Palm Springs, the Desert is
nicknamed "Boomertown", indicating the fact that aging baby boomers make up over
half of the municipality's population. Palm Desert remains a recreational mecca
for golfers, tennis players, water sports, hikers and bicyclists. Baseball
athlete Adam Seuss attended Palm Desert High School and was drafted by the
Houston Astros in 1999. Actor/musician Tyler Hilton is another Palm Desert
native [he attended La Quinta High School, not PDHS], a 1/4 mile from the real
"Hidden Palms", the namesake of the teen drama Hidden Palms on the CW Network.