You can visit the fault area free. There are several areas to view it. Just use a map for info. The visitor center is free also.

No just a map . Really meant for kids but I liked. It also as a Older kid with grandchildren.

The fault is 800 hundred miles long. There are multiple places along it that you can visit for no cost. You just research where you are and there are usually places along the way that you can stand on the fault line or get really close. Some of the fault is located along the I-10 in Coachella, Ca. Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs are on the fault also. Desert Hot springs exists because of the fault pushing hot water up onto the desert surface and creating hot rivers and pools where a lovely spa is located along with Al Capones house and former brothel. where spa treatments are done now. There is a visitor center on 29200 Thousand Palms Canyon Road where you can walk along the fault. You can visit the Living Desert in Palm Desert and there is a viewing area on a short trail that starts in the Living Desert. It is about a mile from the fault itself but there is an elevated viewing area with telescopes.

You can go to Thousand Palms Oasis off of Washington Street heading north. The only other way to REALLY see the fault line is to take Desert Adventures Jeep Tour where you can have direct access to the fault line and learn about how the wildlife depend on the oasis created by the fault lines for food, water, shelter, etc. Hope that helps.

I am so sorry, by this point hopefully you had your trip. But its a 2hr 18minute drive off the Coachella Reservation wetlands stop. Its a hike but there are Jeep tours that can take you right next to the fault line. Hopes this helps. If you do wish to see the eroded, immersed by time cliffs that look similar to the ones in Arizona, about a 50minute drive on the Antelope 14 is the immersing rock and collapsed boulders: