Alpine Village California Map

About Alpine Village, California

Alpine Village is a locality in Riverside County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 224. The population density is 21.2 people per km². Alpine Village is located at 38.7793°N, 119.8078°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP codes: 92561, 96120.

Alpine Village occupies a rugged expanse of high desert terrain where the earth turns to brittle, sun-bleached rock and resilient scrub. It lies 9.7 miles southwest of Palm Desert, CA (from Palm Desert, CA: bearing 214°T), and is situated 9.8 miles south-southwest of Rancho Mirage. The landscape surrounding Alpine Village is defined by the proximity of the Santa Rosa And San Jacinto National Monument, which wraps the perimeter in a vast, protected silence. To the north, the slopes of Asbestos Mountain rise as a jagged, ochre sentinel against the unrelenting clarity of the sky, while the nearby basin of Pinyon Flat gathers the day’s heat into its sandy floor. A mile away, Omstott Creek cuts a shallow, seasonal path through the brush, its bed often dry and white as bone, waiting for the rare, heavy rains to draw color back into the parched earth.

History in Alpine Village remains etched in the slow, deliberate pace of those who live where the horizon is dominated by the jagged silhouettes of the inland interior. The economy reflects a quiet reliance on the land, characterized by small-scale enterprise and the maintenance of property that must withstand the cycle of intense summer heat and crisp, thin winters. Residents often venture toward the cooler air near Lake Hemet, thirteen miles away, or seek the solitude of the Desert Divide Trail to traverse the ridgelines that define this high-altitude territory. Life here is measured by the shifting intensity of the light, which turns the dry grasses to copper at dusk and casts long, violet shadows across the canyons, grounding the spirit in a place that has little use for artifice or haste.

About This Alpine Village Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alpine Village, California. Coordinates: 38.779346, -119.807785. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Alpine Village includes the ZIP code (92561, 96120), telephone area code (909, 530), county seat of Riverside County (Riverside), and school district assignment (Alpine County Unified School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.