Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley.

The Indian Wells Masters is one of nine ATP World Tour Masters 1000 high-level events operated by the Association of Tennis Professionals, and one of the four WTA Premier Mandatory tournaments of the Women's Tennis Association.

It is held at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, which contains the second-largest tennis-specific stadium in the world.

Competition from the Southern Pacific Railroad caused the route to be abandoned briefly in 1875 before being reactivated by the Wells Fargo company the following year.

[6] Over the next decades, settlers gradually arrived in the area and date palm ranches became profitable.

In 1960, Arnold Palmer won the first Bob Hope Desert Classic golf tournament.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a regular Indian Wells visitor and later an Eldorado homeowner.

Since then, Indian Wells has continued to grow, with the development of resort hotels, golf courses and luxury residential areas.

There were 5,137 housing units at an average density of 352.1 per square mile (135.9/km2), of which 2,285 (83.2%) were owner-occupied, and 460 (16.8%) were occupied by renters.

During 2009–2013, Indian Wells had a median household income of $83,884, with 5.2% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

Even as both the state of California and Riverside County trended more Democratic from the 1990s onward, the Republican presidential and gubernatorial candidates have continued to carry Indian Wells by large, albeit smaller margins.

Indian Wells is one of three incorporated cities in Riverside County where the Republican party retains an outright majority of registered voters as of August 30, 2021, the other two being Canyon Lake and Norco.

[17] In the California State Legislature, Indian Wells is in the 19th Senate District, represented by Republican Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, and in the 47th Assembly District, represented by Republican Greg Wallis.