Destinations · California
La Quinta
CA · 33.6774, -116.2955
Joshua Tree National Park, Santa Rosa-San Jacinto Mountains National Monument and San Bernardino National Forest lie within 30 miles of La Quinta, California.
Get in
Amtrak serves nearby Palm Springs via the tri-weekly Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle service between Los Angeles and New Orleans, Chicago and many cities and towns in between. Amtrak also provides bus connections to and from the Gold Runner trains, which run up California's Central Valley to the Bay Area and Sacramento. The train station in Palm Springs is an open platform with no services, far from the city.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for La Quinta are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
National parks
- Joshua Tree National Park · 14 mi
Public land
Campgrounds
- Pinyon Flat Campground · 11 mi
- Ribbonwood Equestrian Campground · 11 mi
- Santa Rosa Yellow Post Sites · 13 mi
- Thomas Mountain & Toolbox Springs Yellow Post Site · 21 mi
- Ryan Campground · 23 mi
- Sheep Pass Group Campground · 24 mi
- Hidden Valley Campground · 25 mi
- Jumbo Rocks Campground · 26 mi
Named places
- Thomas P. Genovese Memorial · 0 mi
- La Quinta Civic Center Park · 0 mi
- Seasons Park · 0 mi
- Logan Gallery · 0 mi
- Fritz Burns Park · 1 mi
- La Quinta Museum · 1 mi
- La Quinta Community Park · 1 mi
- Saguaro Park · 1 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Indian Wells · 4 mi
- Indio · 5 mi
- Palm Desert · 5 mi
- Coachella · 7 mi
- Rancho Mirage · 10 mi
- Cathedral City · 13 mi