TOUR DEPARTURE LOCATIONS

Metate Ranch

Metate Ranch is located at the North end of Monroe Street in the Indio Hills.

• San Andreas Fault "Bones of the Earth" Jeep Tour
• San Andreas Fault "Movers and Shakers" Jeep Tour
• San Andreas Fault "Four Posts Hike" by Jeep
• San Andreas Fault "Gem Canyon Ladder Hike" by Jeep
• Weddings and Events at the Enchanted Desert or Coyote Flats

Directions to Metate Ranch:

Click here for a Google Map Link to Metate Ranch

There is not an actual physical address for Metate Ranch, but you can use this address for navigation in Google Maps:  38635 Monroe St, Indio, CA 92203 or you can find us listed under Metate Ranch - Red Jeep Tours by Desert Adventures departure location or we should come up if you just search for Metate Ranch. 

If you search for us on a map app, be sure you are following the directions to our Monroe Street location and NOT our office in Palm Desert on Lennon Place. 
 

• Take the I-10 freeway East to the Monroe Street exit in Indio.
• At the light at the top of the off ramp, turn left (north) onto Monroe Street.
• Take Monroe Street approximately 2.2 miles. You will go through a couple of stop lights and past housing developments on both sides of the street.
• After the housing developments (as you are approaching the hills), you will pass Avenue 40 and then the road will narrow and you’ll go across a water canal and then the road will wind up and over a levee (small hill).
• When you are at the top of the levee, you’ll see a Hi-Grade / Granite Construction plant directly in front of you.
• Half way between the levee and the Hi-Grade / Granite Construction gate is a dirt road that goes off to the right (east).
• Turn right onto the dirt road and then make a left into the dirt parking lot (look for the sign). 

​​NOTE​S:

• If you get to the Granite Construction / Hi-Grade Gate, you went too far on the paved road. Turn around and go back just a little ways to the dirt-road turn-off. Look for the signs for Metate Ranch and the Coachella Valley Horse Rescue.
• If you get to the horse corals, you've gone too far on the dirt road. Please turn around and return to the parking area.​  It's just before you get back to the pavement.
• ​​We are listed as Red Jeep Tours by Desert Adventures (Metate Ranch) in Google Maps or you can simply search for Metate Ranch.
• ​I​f you use a map app, be sure you are following the directions to our Monroe Street location - not to our office on Lennon Place in Palm Desert. If you search for Desert Adventures, both our Palm Desert and Monroe Street listings will come up.

Note that access to Metate Ranch is gated. If you wish to visit the Ranch, please contact us to schedule an appointment as you will require an escort.

Welwood Memorial Library

100 S. Palm Canyon Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262

The departure location for these tours is from the sightseeing tour loading zone.  The sightseeing tour loading zone is on E Tahquitz Canyon Drive, right in front of the library.

There are public restrooms located across the street at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

Free public parking is available two blocks to the south in the city lot on W. Baristo Rd. between Indian Canyon Drive and Palm Canyon Drive.  There is also unlimited free street parking one block north of E Tahquitz Canyon Drive on N Indian Canyon Drive (North of E Andreas Rd.).

• Indian Canyons Hiking & Jeep Tour
• Joshua Tree National Park Jeep Tour – For guests joining the tour in Palm Springs