Living Desert Zoo and Gardens

Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, formerly the Living Desert Museum, is a public desert botanical garden and a zoo located in Palm Desert, Riverside County, California, United States. They are in the Sonoran Desert of the Coachella Valley and Santa Rosa Mountains foothills near Palm Springs, California. The gardens of the Low Desert - Colorado Desert were established in 1970 as a 360 acres (1.5 km) wilderness preserve by the Palm Springs Desert Museum. By 1974 the gardens housed a Kit Fox, tortoises, lizards, and two Bighorn Sheep. In 1974-75 the Mojave Garden was built, a replica of the High Desert - Mojave Desert. Additional facilities have gradually been constructed, including greenhouses, model trains, and designed landscape gardens....