Palm Springs Windmill Tours: Interactive Self-Drive Experience
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255 Ratings
Palm Springs

Embark on an interactive self-drive tour of the first commercial wind farm in Southern California. Explore marked destinations, learn about renewable energy, and get up close to real generating wind turbines.

Duration: 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Palm Springs Windmill Tours - The Palm Springs Windmill Self-Driving Tours is an interactive, educational and fun tour for friends and family. The tour is curated by Tom Spiglanin, Tour Manager, in which he will guide you along with an audio program and marked destination’s throughout the first commercial wind farm in the United States. The tour…
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What's Included
  • Itinerary-based accommodation
  • Exclusive Palm Springs Windmill Tour App
  • Engaging audio program
What's Not Included
  • Price includes 2 adults in one vehicle. Add’l $10 charge for each adult. Kids under 12 are free.
Additional Information

This guided tour requires your personal vehicle, leading you across Southern California’s first commercial wind farm with the aid of an audio guide and signposted locations. Your booking confirmation, application download link, and instructions will reach you via email. The journey begins at an exhibition yard showcasing non-functional wind turbines,…

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Location
Palm Springs Windmill Tours
62950 20th Ave
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(255 Ratings)
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Libfox79
Oct 30, 2024
Take the PSP Windmill Tour! You'll love it - Have wanted to do this tour for years and finally got around to it. Had the first appointment of the day and had the place all to ourselves, which was a real treat because we totally monopolized the staff with our questions. Spent a lot of time in the visitors' center looking at exhibits and photos. We really appreciated the knowledge of the staff and how patient they were with our questions. If you're at all curious about what all those windmills are doing and how they work, you won't be disappointed. Self-paced tour is nice because you can take all the time you want to look at things outside.
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Judith
Oct 19, 2024
Great tour of a wind farm - 5/5 great overview of the windmill farm all question thoughtfully answered and received a lot of information from Tom the tour guide regarding history of the Gorgonio windmills and present day usage and capacity
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Antonio_s
Oct 14, 2024
Turbines - Tour was fun, learned more about the turbines and was able to take some pictures of them from up close.
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Escape774825
Oct 11, 2024
Excellent! - So very interesting. Rich was amazing. Knowledgeable and interesting . Highly recommend the tour. We have always wanted to go and we finally did and we are glad we did.
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Coastal622361
Jun 30, 2024
Excellent customer service - It was so informative and the videos before and after were well done. My guide Emir (hope I got the spelling right) was very knowledgeable and helpful! You could tell he loves doing this. He made it fun! The lady in the gift shop was really nice as well. And the gulf cart ride was comfortable. 🙂
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Bigcane00
May 21, 2024
Pretty good tour - We flew into Palm Springs in May 2024 just to spend a weekend with friends from Los Angeles, who drove over to Palm Springs for the weekend. The windmill tour is a good activity if you're visiting. On this tour you use your own car and use their apps in order to get the narration. But you could just read the narration from the app as well. On the tour you had a chance to go through the different types of windmills that were used to the current ones. Before the tour the front desk person will set up some videos for you to see which are very helpful in understanding why windmills exist in that part of the country and some of the history behind all that. Now if you choose to go to Palm Springs in may please be aware that the temperature gets a little bit hot. I'm sure it gets hotter in June and July and August but just note that May is indeed hot. And since this is a windmill tour, please expect that it’s gonna be busy
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Photodudeiii
May 1, 2024
Sure is Windy There! - Located north of Palm Springs, about a 15 minute drive from downtown, is the famous windfarms as seen in many movies, commercials and music videos. And this tour of one section lets you get up close to see these gigantic structures. I took the self-guided tour, which requires you to download an app to your smartphone (it’s free), which narrates the various points on the tour. Gives a good history of wind power in California, and the trials and tribulations that were faced in implementing this technology. Interesting. And yes, it is very windy there, so be prepared.
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Pitter1234
Nov 30, 2024
Windmill Tour - The gentleman at the desk was very informative and I have a feeling that he used to do all the tours himself. It’s a lot of information fairly easy to figure out the app after we got started. The route was also fairly easy to follow. I think since it is a self- guided tour that $59 Was a little excessive and $30 would be more appropriate.
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Royp
Jul 11, 2024
Interesting presentation - The presentation at the beginning was interesting, but the cost is way too high. I am a renewable energy supporter, but this was not worth the admission price
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Karen
Jun 3, 2024
Interesting but overpriced - We have passed the wind turbines for years on our way to and from Palm Springs. Today we decided to take the self guided tour. We watched an interesting short video. There are lots of pictures and posters in the main office showing the history of the wind turbines. We downloaded an app that had the guided tour, got back in the car and drove through the tour. There are old parts and pieces, blades and tower parts. And we drove very close to a working wind turbine. It was an interesting tour, just not worth $75 for 4 of us. Young children would be pretty bored.
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