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INDIO FOOD PARK 82868 MILES AVE. INDIOFOODPARK.COM Attend pop-up food and music events in the heart of Indio’s historic downtown every weekend during season. The Indio Food Park also hosts seminars and classes at their new Miles Avenue location. This haven for local artists rotates craft beers, murals and artisanal food selections in a scenic outdoor space.
INDIO FOOD PARK PHOTO CREDIT: MEL BELL PHOTOGRAPHY INDIO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (IPAC) 45-175 FARGO STREET DTWORKS.ORG
The mission of IPAC is to provide a creative environment to promote awareness and education in the performing arts to Indio and its surrounding communities. With weekly events and theatre groups such as Desert Theatreworks, KidsWorks and many more, you are sure to find something for you at IPAC. IPAC is an eclectic and award winning community theatre offering a range of theatrical performances, dances, concerts, exhibitions and children’s programming. Classes and workshops are also available to the community for theatre, dance and music. IPAC is located at the heart of downtown Indio. As the City of Festivals, the city values theater, music, motion pictures, and other artistic mediums to help enrich the lives and experiences of everyone.
FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO
FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT CASINO & THE ROCK YARD FANTASY SPRINGS 84-245 INDIO SPRINGS PARKWAY FANTASYSPRINGSRESORT.COM
Fantasy Springs Resort Casino offers all you need for a fun filled getaway or complete destination vacation. Whether your fantasy includes luxurious hotel rooms, exciting Vegasstyle gambling options, fabulous dining, world-class entertainment, golf or poolside lounging, you’ll find it all here. Fantasy Springs offers world-class gaming at a desert oasis setting, close to anywhere in southern California. The Rock Yard at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino has been the premiere setting for live rock ‘n’ roll music in the Coachella Valley throughout the summer, developing a following of fans that recognize the venue as their favorite source of live rock music – it’s the desert’s version of The Roxy and The Whisky A GoGo. The Rock Yard outdoor concert stage is an amphitheater-style area featuring two side-by-side stages holding audiences of more than 3,000 passionate music fans. The Rock Yard runs from Spring to Fall and is always live, always free, and always outdoors. SHIELDS DATE GARDEN 80-225 US HIGHWAY 111 SHIELDSDATEGARDEN.COM
A testament to its roots, Indio remains synonymous with the date industry. Dates have been a staple food of the Middle East for thousands of years. Dating back to as early as 4,000 BC, dates have found a home in the dry climate and ample sunshine of the Coachella Valley. Indio hosts one of the region’s most famous date gardens – Shields Date Garden. Floyd and Bess Shields came to the California Desert in 1924 and started Shields Date Garden, working long and hard to build up their business and educate their customers about date culture. In the beginning, Mr. Shields would give his lectures in the garden. As the popularity of his lectures grew, he incorporated a slide show, then recorded his presentation in conjunction with the slide show so that the show could be run several times a day. Today, the 15-minute film “Romance and Sex Life of the Date” runs continuously during store hours, where you can still hear Mr. Shields talking about his favorite subject, the date. Complete with a café, retail store and walking garden, Shields is one of the Coachella Valley’s top tourist destinations.
COACHELLA VALLEY HISTORY MUSEUM 82-616 MILES AVENUE CVHM.ORG
The museum is a historical campus which contains the 1926 adobe Smiley-Tyler House - housing our main exhibits - the historic 1909 Indio Schoolhouse and the world’s only Date Museum. Other highlights include our Desert Submarine, a Blacksmith’s shop, pioneer farming implements and the archives for the Historical Society. Also, the spacious grounds hold a variety of gardens which include a Memorial Date Garden, Japanese Garden, the Geissler Rose Garden, the Jardin del Desierto (Desert Garden) and our Liberty Tree - the oldest Cork Tree in the Coachella Valley. RED JEEP TOURS RED-JEEP.COM Extraordinary scenery is all around you during these morning or afternoon tours of the “bones of the earth.” Sit back as your Big Red Jeep climbs its way through the cuts and canyons of the San Andreas Fault Zone, while a guide educates and entertains with explanations of the native plants, animals, geology, and history of the Coachella Valley. Tours depart daily from Indio.
COACHELLA VALLEY HISTORY MUSEUM CABAZON BAND OF MISSION INDIANS 84-245 INDIO SPRINGS PARKWAY FANTASYSPRINGSRESORT.COM
A museum dedicated to the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, located on the grounds of Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, gives visitors a chance to “walk in the footsteps of the ancient Cahuilla people.” It features artifact displays, hands-on exhibits, and interpretive scenes of the Native Americans who originally inhabited the Coachella Valley. Over the generations, the Cabazon Band has often faced adversity, but they remain undaunted as they shape their destiny and sustain their most honored cultural values: bound by the land as its custodians, they have rich traditions of unity, leadership and generosity.
POLO AT EMPIRE POLO CLUB PHOTO CREDIT: JIM BREMNER POLO AT EMPIRE POLO CLUB PHOTO CREDIT: JIM BREMNER
POLO GROUNDS
EMPIRE POLO CLUB 81-800 AVENUE 51 EMPIREPOLO.COM
The Empire Polo Club is a 330-acre polo club in Indio. Founded in 1987, it hosts international polo tournaments January through April each year. It has twelve polo grounds, making it one of the largest polo clubs on the West coast of the United States. Along with the beautiful grassy polo fields, stories sculptures, and storied rose garden, the Empire Polo Club is also home to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach Music Festival.
ELDORADO POLO CLUB 50-950 MADISON STREET ELDORADOPOLOCLUB.COM
For over 60 years Eldorado Polo Club has been the premier destination for polo in the west, nestled against the mountains at the east end of the Coachella Valley, the club seems a tropical paradise. Los Angeles is a scant two hours away, Palm Springs less than a half hour, but there is a magic feeling of isolation, of being a long penalty shot from the end of the world.
