Lappert's Ice Cream

Pizza and spaghetti in a colorful room, and the kids' menu runs from bacon and eggs to pasta.

Palm Canyon Drive closes to cars for a street fair with food stalls and street performers, so kids can roam on scooters while you browse.

The tribe's own museum, with family activity days and an ethnobotany camp for kids, so a canyon hike afterwards means more.

The pool is up on the roof of the tallest building downtown, right above Palm Canyon Drive.

Shakes, malts and floats, including a date shake, and some come with a mini donut on the straw.

A splash pad with a water feature modelled on the Tahquitz Canyon waterfall, steps from the giant Marilyn statue, so it fits between lunch and the museum.