with 350 sunny days per year it's easy to enjoy the active, outdoor lifestyle that's made this desert oasis one of the most desirable retirement and resort locations in the world. Hollywood's playground since the 1920s, the area boasts 272,000 acres of pristine wilderness and 130 golf courses in the Coachella Valley alone. The surrounding mountains, soaring to 11,000 feet, shelter Rancho Mirage from the cooler Pacific Coast climate. The local temperature averages eighties during the day, sixties at night, and a scant five
inches of rain falls each year.
