Palm Springs, California – Where the desert blooms

Imagine the desert here as the bottom of a vast sea. Many millions of years ago, that’s what it was. By 10 million years ago, the waters had receded and the climate was hospitable to prehistoric mastodons, zebras, and camels. As recently as 10,000 years ago, the Colorado River still spilled into this basin intermittently, and around AD 700 Lake Cahuilla formed.