Picture this: you and your girls, iced coffees in hand, windows down, desert breeze doing that thing where it feels like a soft reboot for your soul. Palm Springs this weekend is serving nostalgia reset energy—the kind that makes you feel like your main-character era just restarted. Here’s your perfectly unhinged, deeply iconic itinerary.

This weekend is for the bachelorettes, the birthday girls, the besties, and the women who know that leisure is a lifestyle. Palm Springs is serving grandma chic with a side of chaos, and honestly? That’s the dream.

Creating a vision board for the new year has become a girls-trip staple. Think poolside scissors, oat milk lattes, and someone saying, “This is my soft-life era” unironically. And honestly? Love that for us.

Think desert air, drag queens, Y2K chaos, and just enough celebrity adjacency to feel important without needing a publicist. Here’s what you’re doing this weekend, main character.

Think of it as intuition tourism—equal parts fun, healing, and “wait, how did they know that?” Here are our top three spots to get the tea on your 2026 storyline.

If you’ve been craving some sparkly desert magic, consider this your official invite to jingle-bell–jam your way through Palm Springs this weekend. The vibes? Immaculate. The outfits? Festively unhinged. The memories? Already loading. Pack your cutest holiday ‘fit, grab your besties, and let’s sleigh this 4-day fiesta.

Whether you’ve just landed or your flight’s been pushed back, Palm Springs has a way of turning downtime into desert time. The air hums with mid-century cool, SPF-slicked sunshine, and Aperol Spritz energy. While your hotel host “finishes cleaning” or your boarding gate remains stubbornly closed, you’ve got options — and they’re as eclectic, laid-back, and effortlessly stylish as the city itself.

The desert is officially sparkling — the vibes are loud, the drinks are strong, and the outfits are giving main character energy. Whether you’re celebrating love, friendship, or just living your best life in the desert heat, this weekend is packed with iconic moments waiting to happen.

The vibes are immaculate, the costumes are chaotic (in the best way), and the squad-level drama is giving Emmy-worthy realness. From spooky staffing soirées to velvet ropes and diva drag brunches, your weekend is about to pop off harder than a cork at a bottomless mimosa brunch. Here’s your official fall agenda—text the group chat, tell your situationship you’re busy, and let’s get into it.

If you're not ready to let go of summer like your toxic ex, we gotchu. Here's SQUAD’s Top 5 Things to Do in Palm Springs this weekend — the Never-Ending Summer Edition: