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Outdoor Fun and Recreation:
Polo Capital of the World

The sky’s the limit for local recreational opportunities. Whether it’s indoor, outdoor or outback, there’s a wealth of activities for all ages.

Located within the golf capital of the world, Indio offers both private and public championship courses. The world-renowned Landmark Golf Club hosted The Skins Game for several years.

Explore the spectacle of nature’s desert beauty on guided jeep tours. You can follow a more personal route cycling and walking along ancient trails. Or simply float above it all on a hot air balloon adventure and gaze down on the emerald courses, topaz pools, and terra cotta rooftops.

The equestrian lifestyle abounds in the private ranches and polo fields. Whatever your pleasure, you’re sure to find it under the eternal sunshine or soft moonlit nights in Indio.

Top Eight Attractions in Indio
1. Festivals and events
2. Casinos
3. Authentic Mexican restaurants
4. Golf clubs and resorts
5. Coachella Valley Museum and Cultural Center
6. Polo and other equestrian events
7. Agricultural and other educational and scenic tours
8. Historic murals

Golf
The natural beauty of the desert oasis community and ever-changing tints and shadows of the surrounding mountains create a perfect setting for golf.

Lush golf courses, lined with swaying palms and an extravaganza of colorful flowers, appeal to golfers of all skill levels. Indio boasts five professionally designed courses, including the beautiful new Indian Springs Golf Club.

Heritage Palms Golf Club
Discover a world of brilliant green Bermuda grass fairways with gentle containment mounding leading to modest tiff dwarf greens that call for precise shot-making skills. Heritage Palms is known throughout the valley for its greens, and the course allows golfers to use all the clubs in their bags. The course offers plenty of variety (with water coming into play on four holes) yet is player-friendly and inviting to beginners as well as seasoned golfers.

The mood of this Arthur Hill-designed course changes through the long shadows of sunrise and the ever-changing crimson hues of the desert sunset. The vistas from every vantage point at Heritage Palms are an incomparable panorama of mountains rising majestically from the tranquility of the pristine desert. This is the Coachella Valley.

Designer: Arthur Hill Holes: 18 Yardage: 6,727 Championship, 6,293 Men’s regular, 5,575 Women’s Address: 44-291 Heritage Palms Drive South Indio, CA Telephone: (760) 772-7334 Open to the Public

Indian Palms Country Club & Resort
The centerpiece of the Indian Palms Country Club & Resort is the 27-hole, par 72 USGA golf course, named by the Desert Sun as one of the two “best courses in the Coachella valley.”

While the course itself has been significantly upgraded over the years, its magnificent beauty and mature landscaping date back to its earlier days as one of the valley’s two original golf courses. The course is open to the public year-round.

Indian Palms has hosted several presidents, including President Dwight Eisenhower, who retired to Indian Palms and lived in what is known as the Eisenhower House for a number of years. The new Indian Palms Resort Hotel (only steps from the first tee) offers all the comforts of home and is adjacent to the community’s recreational club, swimming, tennis and fitness facilities.

Designer: Jackie Cochran Holes: 27
Address: 48-630 Monroe Street, Indio, CA 92201
Telephone: (760) 775-4444

Indian Springs Golf & Country Club
Indian Springs Golf & Country Club was rebuilt in 2000 in conjunction with the development of 700 elegant homes overlooking the 6,741-yard championship layout created by course architect David Ginkel.

The course features carpet-like playing conditions and unprecedented customer service amidst a landscape of beautiful lakes, waterfalls and streams. Every hole offers 360-degree panoramic views of the Santa Rosa and Chocolate Mountain ranges. Though providing a challenging test for the low handicappers, the user-friendly design is loved by golfers at all levels. The recently completed clubhouse is now open to the public and is available for special occasions, dinners and events.

Designer: David Ginkel Holes: 18-championship holes plus
9-hole, par 3 course
Address: 79-940 Westward Ho Drive, Indio, CA 92201
Telephone: (760) 200-8988

Indio Municipal Golf Course
The course, first opened in 1964, was lengthened to its current 3,004 yards in 1998 and was rated by the Southern California Golf Association as an “Executive Course.” The course has an extensive youth program and supports a number of high school golf teams.

The course appeals to all levels of golfers and provides both a fun and challenging round of golf. It is also the only night-lighted course in the valley.

Holes: 18 Yardage: 3,004 Address:
Jackson and Avenue 42, Indio, CA 92203
Telephone: (760) 347-9156 Open to the Public

Golf Club at Terra Lago
Recently the home of the made-for-TV Skins Game, the Landmark Golf Club, now called the Golf Club at Terra Lago, is a 36-hole desert oasis of two challenging and picturesque championship golf courses set amidst hundreds of acres of natural terrain. Designed for professional golf events by PGA tour professionals, it is situated in the foothills of the Indio Hills and Little San Bernardino Mountains. The design of the course melds the traditions of golf with the power of the land. As at many famous championship courses, the holes at Terra Lago have been given descriptive names. Try on Moonscape, No Way Out, Bad Lands or Rocky Peak for size.

Terra Lago’s two courses zigzag back and forth across the banks of Southern California’s All American Canal for over a mile before climbing to the heights of the earthen berm at the northern boundary. The breathtaking panoramic views of the Terra Lago’s courses span from San Gorgonio Mountain to the west, to the Chocolate Mountains in the southeast. With the entire Coachella Valley as a backdrop and magnificent sunrises and sunsets shining through orange and purple hues, the alluring magic of golf rises from the whispering hills of Indio and the Golf Club at Terra Lago.

Designer Team: Landmark, Schmidt-Curley Holes: 36 Yardage: South Course-7,044 North Course-7,123 Address: 84-000 Terra Lago Parkway, Indio, CA 92203 Telephone: For reservations (760) 775-2000 Internet: www.terralago.com Open to the Public

Kah We aH Falls Golf Course at Fantasy Springs Resort
The Kah We aH Falls Golf Course at Fantasy Springs Resort in Indio brings a whole new meaning to the term “Masters” in golf. Ka We aH is the phonetic spelling of Cahuilla, the name of the indigenous ancestors of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians and translates to “Masters” or “Powerful Ones.”

At the groundbreaking ceremony for the $13 million facility, tribal chairman John A. James said the tribe was given harsh desert land for its reservation generations ago, so it is fitting that this “dirt with a hedge” is now being shaped after 10 years of “hard thinking, hard work and hard engineering.”

The 18-hole championship course, designed by renowned architect Clive Clark, includes a driving range, putting green, more than 1,000 trees and extensive water features. Clark, a former Ryder Cup player, won five European Tour events and has designed 25 courses in Europe and the United States, including the “Clive” Course at The Hideaway Golf Club in La Quinta and the new West Course at The Golf Resort at Indian Wells.

The Par 72, 6,900-yard course covers 150 acres east of the hotel and casino to suit both tournament play and individual recreation. The 18th hole will incorporate an innovative tumbling water feature with a 30-foot drop that takes golfers through a cave, behind the waterfall, emerging with a spectacular back view of the massive waterfall.

Name of Golf Course: Kah We aH Falls Golf Course at Fantasy Springs Resort (I-10 at Golf Center Parkway)

Designer: Clive Clark Holes: 18 Yardage: 6,900 Championship, 6,700 Men’s regular, 6,400 Women’s Address: 84-245 Indio Springs Parkway, Indio, CA 92203 (I-10 at Golf Center Parkway) Telephone: (760) 342-5000 Open to the Public

Shadow Hills Golf Club
The championship golf course at Shadow Hills Golf Club is a thing of beauty. A Schmidt-Curley, Inc. design, it spreads itself across the desert floor as seamlessly and elegantly as if it flowed into the valley from the surrounding mountains. Shadow Hills is laid out in harmony with the natural hues of the vast desert, creating an explosion of color that takes your breath away. As the shadows move across the Valley, and the purples and browns of the desertscape mix with the deep greens of Shadow Hills, you’ll understand where the name comes from. Play Shadow Hills Golf Club and experience some of the most beautiful landscape the California desert has to offer.

Designer: Schmidt-Curley, Inc. Address: 80-875 Avenue 40, Indio, CA 92203 Telephone: (760) 200-3375.

Public Tennis Courts

Indio High School
775-3550. Six lighted courts.

Indian Wells Tennis Garden
200-8200. 20 hard courts, six lighted, two clay courts. $10 June 1-Sept. 30. $20 Oct. 1-May 31. $10 after 2pm.

The Polo Capital of the West

Horse lovers are thrilled by the speed, power and grace of the magnificent horses at the Empire Polo Club and Eldorado Polo Club, two of the finest polo clubs in the country. From November through April, world-class polo draws top riders and horses from all over the globe for a winter season of championship events amid a spectacular backdrop of desert and mountain beauty.

Because it is home to two of America’s finest polo facilities, Indio is known as the Polo Capital of the West. The Empire Polo Club, located at Avenue 50 and Monroe Street, secured a spot in polo history when it hosted the first 40-goal tournament played in the United States. Eldorado Polo Club, located at Avenue 50 and Madison Street, dates back more than 50 years and has hosted virtually every major U.S. tournament.

After playing separately for several years, the two facilities have now combined to form the Pacific Coast Polo Center, the world’s largest club, with 12 tournament polo fields and stabling for more than 1,000 horses.

Today, although both facilities remain separately owned, polo is played under the Eldorado name. High-goal polo dominates the winter season, but the sharing of fields also enables an expanded schedule to accommodate both professional and amateur players. The public is invited to enjoy polo matches every Sunday.

In addition to polo, the fields of both facilities are used for other major events, ranging from elaborate corporate entertainment extravaganzas to musical concerts that draw crowds of more than 50,000, and since 2001, it has been the home of the Southwest Arts Festival.

Eldorado Polo Club
50-950 Madison St. (760) 342-2223. Local/international amateur/professional players compete in matches November-April. 14 fields.

Empire Polo Club
81-800 Ave. 51. (760) 342-2762. Top-level polo, rodeos, balloon festivals, concerts, and more. On-site catering and restaurant.

Outdoor Fun and Recreation: Polo Capital of the World

Public Tennis Courts

The Polo Capital of the West

Outdoor Fun and Recreation:
Polo Capital of the World