Eisenhower Mountain rises 1,952 feet above Eldorado Country Club in Indian Wells, where President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie spent many winters. As local residents came to call it Eisenhower's Mountain, the name was made official in 1973 through the efforts of The Living Desert, supported by Eldorado Country Club, Eisenhower Medical Center, Palm Desert Community Church, where the Eisenhowers worshipped, and the cities of Indian Wells and Palm Desert, after Mrs. Eisenhower consented and the Federal Board of Geographic Names approved the name for federal use. That same year, The Living Desert received permission from the Bureau of Land Management to lease the mountain's west slope and build a nature trail, and the City of Indian Wells later bought the 640-acre slope from the Bureau for $2.50 an acre to preserve its natural beauty and add it to The Living Desert. The Eisenhower Mountain Nature Trail interprets the mountain's distinctive rock formations and plant and animal life, offers views of the rugged mountains and the Coachella Valley, and was dedicated with the mountain on October 14, 1976, General Eisenhower's birthday, as a 69-year lease of the west slope to The Living Desert began the same day.