Rancho Mirage is a
resort city in
Riverside County,
California,
United States. The population was 17,218 at the
2010 census, up from 13,249 at the
2000 census, but the seasonal (part-time) population can exceed 20,000. In between
Cathedral City and
Palm Desert, it is one of the nine cities of the
Coachella Valley (
Palm Springs area). Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the "Cove communities" (Desert, Magnesia, Palmas, Tamarisk and Thunderbird), and had 3,000 permanent residents at the time.