Palm Springs Windmill Tours: Interactive Self-Drive Experience

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…
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,…

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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(258 Ratings)
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Elizabethmz8665fz
Feb 5, 2025
So much fun and an awesome experience! - This was such a terrific side trip! If you’re a science nerd, you’ll love it! Highly recommend if you’re looking for something to do & you’ve never been up close to these epic machines!
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Netamb
Feb 1, 2025
A unique, informative, self-guided tour - This is a very well-designed audio tour. which you can customize to meet your group's need. We didn't have time to listen to all the details (and I was the only one who wanted to learn about the engineering, the RPMs, and the kilowatts), so we fast-forwarded through some parts of the audio. Fascinating to see how windmill technology has evolved. Some good photos. Some of the latest windmills resemble sculptures. Worth the money.
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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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Dmarick
Feb 13, 2025
Good rainy day activity - My son and I really enjoyed our audiotour. It was a nice way to spend an hour or so on a rainy day. The workers at check-in were very friendly and eager to share information. The trail was well marked and we enjoyed being able to get out of our car to look at and touch some of the historical items.
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Gail_b
Feb 4, 2025
Learned a lot! - Easy to navigate the self tour. We followed the tour which told us about wind power-I never knew! Good experience
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Carrieonfood
Dec 30, 2024
Golf Cart tour guide review - The golf car tour guide is not really worth it. Its $55/person even a child. after fees and taxes - it totalled to $174. you can buy the self driving tour, its really no difference. the only difference is that the guide is a real person and you are in the golf card. lesson learned for us.
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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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