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Photograph of Palm Springs Tramway Valley Station
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Palm Springs Tramway Valley Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.

From the record

“The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in Palm Springs, California, is the largest rotating aerial tramway in the world. It was opened in September 1963 as a way of getting from the floor of the Coachella Valley to near the top of San Jacinto Peak and was constructed in rugged Chino Canyon.”

Wikipedia article Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 1 Tram Way, Palm Springs, 92262
  • When was it listed? September 2015
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Architecture of Albert Frey MPS
  • Census division. Palm Springs
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • Architect. Albert Frey
  • National Register reference number. 15000642 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1901 to 1996

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Palm Springs Tramway Valley Station, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet covering Palm Springs Tramway Valley Station, surveyed 1901

Fires near this property

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Palm Springs Tramway Valley Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,382 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined110
Natural29
Recreation and ceremony23
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism19
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRiverside UnitSTATE
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCleveland National ForestCINCOTTA
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSan Bernardino National Forestnot named
6 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestWINDY
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestROUND
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSan Bernardino National ForestCIENEGA
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Desert DistrictPALM

Every fire recorded in Riverside County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Palm Springs Tramway Valley Station: 7 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mineral Canyon Nos. 5-7IronProspect
Palm SpringsGeothermalProducer
Southern Pacific Co. DepositsLimestone, General, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Silica Sand OccurrenceSilicaOccurrence
Chino Canyon DepositsLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Guiberson DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Guiberson DepositLimestone, GeneralProspect
Mammoth 7 Limestone ClaimLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
Novell DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceSedimentary
Novelle Limestone DepositLimestone, GeneralOccurrence

Every working recorded in Riverside County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Palm Springs Aerial Tramway Mountain Station2.2 miles2016
Edris House3.1 miles2016
Dr. Franz Alexander House3.1 miles2016
Hamrick House3.2 miles2016
Carey House3.4 miles2015
Loewy House3.5 miles2015

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000642 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Riverside CountyAll 90 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.