Palm Springs Aerial Tramway

Riders can travel more than 2.5 miles along the stunning cliffs of Chino Canyon on the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, the largest revolving tram car in the world, before arriving at the untamed wilderness of Mt. San Jacinto State Park. Tram vehicles rotate slowly as you travel for around 10 minutes, providing beautiful and breathtaking views of the valley floor below. You may enjoy two restaurants, observation decks, a natural history museum, two documentary cinemas, a gift shop, and more than 50 kilometers of hiking paths at the Mountain Station, which is located at an elevation of 8,516 feet.

The construction of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in the untamed Chino Canyon on Palm Springs' northern border did not happen by accident. It requires vision, planning, funding, and most importantly, foresight.

Francis Crocker's dream as a young electrical engineer began in 1935 while he was traveling to Banning, California, with newspaper owner Carl Barkow. With the sweltering sun, Crocker wiped his forehead as he looked up at Mount San Jacinto's 10,834-foot peak, which was still covered in snow, and yearned to "get up there where it's nice and cold." At that point, a tramway up the high cliffs of Chino Canyon, or "Crocker's Folly" as it was subsequently nicknamed by one newspaper woman, was born.

Location: USA