Read About Desert Adventures

Since 1988, Desert Adventures has provided the most highly regarded outdoor adventures in the Greater Palm Springs area. As the original, largest, and most respected outdoor adventure and eco-tour company in the California desert, Desert Adventures offers a vast array of tour and activity choices. Whether you seek rugged adventure, camaraderie and team building, history and culture, nature, geology, flora and fauna, spectacular desert events, or panoramic vistas and amazing scenery, Desert Adventures has a tour, activity, or event for you!

Desert Adventures’ Red Jeep Tours and events at Metate Ranch are an integral part of the Greater Palm Springs destination experience. For over three decades, Desert Adventures has fulfilled the ever-growing need for fun, educational, interactive, one-of-a-kind activities and events which are unique to the Greater Palm Springs area.

Desert Adventures is the premier outdoor adventure and eco-tour company in the Greater Palm Springs area and the only outdoor adventure company that can take you to our private 800 acre Metate Ranch, located in the Indio Hills. At Metate Ranch, we offer Jeep, hiking, and sightseeing (bus) tours, school/youth programs, unique team building programs, weddings and incredible, interactive desert parties and corporate events at our Enchanted Desert and Coyote Camp event venues.

Company History

Family Owned And Operated Since 1988!

Desert Adventures was founded in 1988 to fulfill the growing need for exciting things to do in Palm Springs – other than play golf or tennis. Within four months of getting the idea of offering entertaining, educational jeep tours into the desert, Desert Adventures was born with an initial fleet of three used vehicles and a capacity of nine passengers. The tours were a success from the beginning, and by the second year the capacity had grown to 35 tour seats and clients were coming back for more!

Over the years, our jeep fleet has grown to 15 7-passenger Jeep Scramblers (CJ-8’s) and we can accommodate up to 105 people at a time on jeep tours (larger groups can be accommodated using multiple rounds).

Desert Adventures has continued to grow and today, Desert Adventures offers tours and events at our 800 acre private Metate Ranch on the San Andreas Fault as well as other areas around the valley.

For individuals and families, we offer jeep tours to the San Andreas Fault, Palm Springs Indian Canyons, and the Painted Canyon / Mecca Hills Wilderness Area. We also offer sightseeing tours to Joshua Tree National Park (conducted in a climate controlled van or SUV).

For groups, we offer jeep tours and rallies, sightseeing tours, and hiking tours throughout the valley as well as unique team building programs and corporate events, weddings and other special occasion celebrations at our Enchanted Desert and other Metate Ranch event venues.