British writer and explorer Wilfred Thesiger described the wastelands of Saudi Arabia as “a desert within a desert, so ...

and while planning Palm Desert (developed by his brother-in-law Cliff Henderson) in the 1940s, he was granted a rocky hilltop parcel in Cahuilla Hills as part of the 1938 Small Tract Act.

Tucked away on state Route 18 is a trail where hikers meander through pinyon-juniper forest, braving rocky and sandy conditions to get to a single point — one of the ...