Golf clubs, gated estates, and historic neighborhoods across Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, La Quinta, and the high desert. Membership and the deed are rarely the same thing. We map both.
Toll Brothers' 37-home single-story estate pod inside Griffin Ranch in south La Quinta, with Canter, Farrier, and Sorrell plans around The Griffin Club.
Historic gated Palm Springs ranch colony and guest ranch on preserved desert acres; Colonist Ranch-style homes, Disney Hall, and a screened hospitality tradition since the 1930s.
Gated 46-home hillside villa community in Rancho Mirage below Mirada Estates: Mark Scheurer plans, Davidson close-out, deeded Ritz-Carlton amenities.
Guard-gated custom estate plateau in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Rancho Mirage beside The Ritz-Carlton; distinct from Villas of Mirada below.
Gated mid-2000s Transwest Housing community on Eisenhower Drive in La Quinta: Ridge View and Ridge Gate homes against the Santa Rosas beside La Quinta Resort.
Thirty-two custom estates gated on La Quinta Resort grounds beside Pete Dye's Mountain Course and a private lake; Heritage Membership optional.
Gated 69-home pocket on historic Point Happy ranch land at La Quinta's 111 and Washington gateway; Clarke Court holds the largest lot at 20,037 sf.
Gated equestrian estate community in south La Quinta on roughly two-acre horse-zoned lots across from Eldorado Polo Club; custom homes, no golf, no clubhouse.
Guard-gated south La Quinta ranch community on Merv Griffin land with a 10,000-sf clubhouse campus and Toll Brothers' 37-home estate pod.
Tom Doak private course in a Palm Desert mountain cleft with a small canyon Retreat below; golf and homes on separate ledgers.
Private motorsports country club in Thermal with Alan Wilson circuits, trackside villas, and desert living on 426 gated acres; no on-site golf.
Guard-gated Brock-era homes off Avenue 50 where Pete Dye’s La Quinta Resort Dunes Course winds through the streets without equity club dues.
Harry Kiener’s 1930s Santa Carmelita de Vale casitas under the Santa Rosa Mountains, still La Quinta’s original Spanish Colonial Revival neighborhood.
A tiny South Palm Springs hillside above Indian Canyons where 1963 custom modernism clings to San Jacinto rock and valley views.
Public Nicklaus Design golf and a Mid Century Modern clubhouse at Gene Autry and Vista Chino, with Toll Brothers Nola and other builders still filling the Palm Springs master plan.
Rancho Mirage's equestrian corridor off Bob Hope Drive: boarding stables, oversized lots, and small gates, with The River a few minutes away.
A gated Rancho Mirage cul-de-sac of about seven custom acre estates south of Mission Hills. Fee land. No club. Not a country club map.
Alexander Construction's Krisel tract in North Palm Springs, with about fifteen Du Bois Alohaus gables later nicknamed Swiss Miss.
About 170 central Palm Springs houses between Tachevah and Alejo, where E. Stewart Williams built Twin Palms for Sinatra in 1947.
Palm Springs' 1920s Hicks and Stevens estate neighborhood of about 290 homes, Spanish courtyards to Wexler glass, a walk from downtown.
Edmond Fulford's early gated Palm Springs village of about 180 houses, original El Portal gate still standing, fee simple, no golf-club HOA.
A 1980s-90s gated pocket of about 104 South Palm Springs houses on leased land published as expiring in 2081, distinct from Andreas Hills.
Custom South Palm Springs hillside above Indian Canyons, about 180 houses, fee-simple in market practice, and not the leased-land Parc Andreas gate.
Canyon Country Club's 1961-62 Wexler clubhouse and Bell North Course, now tribal public golf, with Kelso-era houses in South Palm Springs.
The valley's second 18-hole course, opened 1952 because Thunderbird restricted the roster; Hogan as head pro, Sinatra on the 17th.
The Rancho Mirage hillside across from Thunderbird Country Club: Crosby's first house, a tunnel under Highway 111, and no automatic membership.
The valley's first 18-hole course, opened 9 January 1951 on Frank Bogert's ranch: Lawrence Hughes golf, Hope, Crosby, and a restricted origin Tamarisk answered.
Bill Bone's 1974 Rancho Mirage condo club, 746 units on a Ted Robinson executive course, bought by the homeowners in 1981.
Jack Nicklaus's first Coachella Valley Signature course, guard-gated lock-and-leave in Rancho Mirage, membership separate from the unit.
Member-owned Rancho Mirage club founded 1975 on Muirhead golf, with a $16 million Bickler renovation already in the ground.
Desmond Muirhead around a central lake at 71-777 Frank Sinatra Drive, Rancho Mirage, with high-rise towers and golf houses on the same water.
A smaller private golf, tennis, and social club at 100 Chaparral Drive, Palm Desert. Spelling Chaparral. The house does not include the card.
Fred Couples and Brian Curley's La Quinta course through more than 2,000 date palms, A-4 bentgrass greens, and a capped membership that is not the deed.
Arthur Hills's 1,207-foot sixth tee and Tom Fazio's Canyons course on a south Palm Desert hillside, membership licensed to owners rather than sold with the deed.
South Palm Desert's dual-course Muirhead-Robinson club, later Fought, with more than 1,000 residences split across 13 homeowners associations.
700 acres in La Quinta whose association bought the Jones and Pate courses in 2021, after Grove, Pyramids, RTC, and a Skins Game chapter.
Member-owned 1959 La Quinta club on Avenue 50; the 2009 clubhouse and Elite recognition do not travel with a nearby deed.
Invited club on Club Drive with Classic and Cove, four decades of the Bob Hope Classic, and a house that does not automatically include the card.
Homeowner-owned Palm Desert condo club: 902 roofs, 27 Ted Robinson holes, social membership with the deed and golf as a July election.
Ron Fream's 1984 Palm Desert course, semi-private, with about 1,100 residences across multiple sub-associations and golf sold separately from the deed.
Sunrise's 36-hole Palm Desert condo club, 1,274 units from 1984 to 1991, with Robinson Championship and Challenge courses and a serious racquet plant.
Ted Robinson's 1977 Omni campus in Rancho Mirage: 27 holes plus a 6-hole express course, resort play, and membership that does not come with the deed.
Sunrise's 1978-1982 Palm Desert condo club: 1,206 homes, 27 Ted Robinson holes, spelling Monterey, not Monterrey.
Guard-gated Indian Wells Robinson club that publishes 520 residences: 22 estates, 210 houses, and 288 paired condos on a former date orchard.
Toll Brothers' 2003 La Quinta Palmer club on land drawn as a Citrus extension, complete with a cart tunnel that never joined the two.
Pete and Alice Dye's 1987 private PGA WEST course on Mandarina, parkland among citrus, with membership separate from the house.
Member-owned La Quinta club with Pete Dye and Clive Clark courses, 434 properties, and a nearly $50 million renovation finished in January 2026.
A 1969 Palm Desert club, formerly Del Safari, with a Jimmy Hines tree-lined course and a non-equity culture on Avondale Drive.
Arnold Palmer's La Quinta Cove home course on a 1902 Marshall ranch, now a member-owned equity club where membership and title stay separate.
Invitation-only Indian Wells cove club that hosted the 1959 Ryder Cup in a William F. Cody clubhouse; the house does not get you in.
A 700-acre Indian Wells club opened in 1998, with the valley's only Weiskopf-Morrish course and a membership that voted to stay small.
Discovery Land's La Quinta club, where Tom Fazio cut a modern Shadow Creek with custom lots perched above the fairways.
Tom Fazio's 1994 invitation-only club on the old Keller gravel pit in La Quinta, with no tee times and houses kept off the shot.
Tom Fazio's 1980 Indian Wells cove club: two private courses, about 500 residences, and membership that does not come with the deed.
Fifty years of an LPGA major on Dinah Shore's Muirhead course, plus 54 private holes and a serious racquet plant in Rancho Mirage.
Bill Bone's Indian Wells club: two Nicklaus Signature courses, 631 homes, and a Club Villa run as a private equity hill town.
Nine courses by Dye, Nicklaus, Palmer, Weiskopf, and Norman in La Quinta, still the Western Home of Golf in America.
Sunrise's Coral Mountain club in La Quinta, with a long Rees Jones course and Spanish-contemporary houses on land Drummond opened into the 2008 crash.
Every house at this Sunrise Palm Desert club sits on an Arnold Palmer fairway, 1,068 homes on one square mile.