A low, dark-clad house set among granite boulders below the Chino Canyon ridge at sunset.

Palm Springs’ last hillside community

Aerial tour

Offering a quiet, serene hillside escape above it all

Amidst one of the most recognizable landscapes in the Coachella Valley, Desert Palisades comprises 110 private homesites along Chino Canyon — the cherished Palm Springs landmark where the desert floor rises to an alpine peak in a transition found nowhere else in North America.

Homesites available
40110
Available homesite sizes
15,580–30,089sq ft
Elevation
250–350ft
An aerial view across Desert Palisades: the paved road winding through boulder-strewn desert, a single low house at the left, and the San Jacinto range rising into cloud behind.
The lit gatehouse at dusk, where the entry drive curves between boulders.
The desert floor gives way to the mountain in one uninterrupted gesture — and the architecture, at its best here, simply gets out of the way.
A glass-walled living room under a wood ceiling, with a long linear
              fireplace in white stone and the valley and foothills beyond.

An ensemble of singular architectural statements

Sliding walls of glass opening a living room onto a terrace and the valley beyond.
A pool deck facing the green flank of the mountain.
A louvred pergola shading an outdoor kitchen and lounge.

Homes choreograph fluently with their surroundings

Each homesite at Desert Palisades is appointed to preserve the natural contours of the land and offer varying elevation, topography and view lines. No two properties are the same, no flat-grade pads will be constructed and no mass grading will occur.

An entry courtyard with olive trees, a reflecting channel and low seating against board-formed concrete.
A concrete residence approached on a gravel walk through brittlebush and barrel cactus.

A rare Palm Springs setting

A cream 1960s Ford Thunderbird convertible parked under Washingtonia
                  palms on a Palm Springs street, with Mount San Jacinto behind.
The Tramway Gas Station, Albert Frey's 1965 wedge-roofed canopy at
                  the north entrance to Palm Springs.
Palm Springs rooftops and palms at golden hour, with the bare rock
                  of the San Jacinto foothills rising directly behind them.

Desert Palisades sits where the city ends and the mountain begins, at the northern edge of Palm Springs. More than 350 days of sunshine a year, ten minutes to downtown and the airport. From here you're within reach of the valley's full spread: dozens of restaurants and coffee houses, the design shops and mid-century landmarks of Palm Canyon Drive, art museums and theatres, and more than a dozen trailheads leading into the canyons and up the mountain. The coast, the mountains and Los Angeles are each a couple of hours out when the mood for a change arrives.

A glass-walled house and lap pool set on a boulder shelf beneath the ridge.