Palm Springs Windmill Tours

Overview

You will need your own car on this tour which you will be guided along with an audio program and marked destinations throughout the first commercial wind farm in Southern Calfornia. Once booked, we send you an email confirmation along with an App download and instructions. The tour starts with a display yard of non-operating wind turbines of successes and failures, along with a stop to a real generating wind turbine where you can get up close and take pictures. The tour ends with a stop at the Indigo Power Plant and retired wind farm. There you can exit on 19th Avenue to Indian Canyon Road and leave with more knowledge about renewable energy! The tour takes approximately one hour depending on your pace. We ask that you respect others by not gathering at the marked destinations. Please allow cars ahead of you to finish their exploration before your turn. One booking, includes two adults.

City: Palm Springs

Tue 08 Jul

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What's Included

Accommodation as per itinerary

Palm Springs Windmill Tour App

Audio program

Route and map

Meeting point

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Palm Springs
62950 20th Ave

We are located at: 62950 20th Avenue, Palm Springs, CA. 92262

Before You Go

Congratulations on booking a Tour!

Please be advised, this ticket includes 2 adults per vehicle. We charge $10 for each additional adult at the tour center. Kids under 12 are free.

Please check in at the Tour Center and feel free to review our video and exhibits before heading out on your driving portion of the tour.

After that, our tour guide will send you on your way with a Map and instruct you on the Self-Driving Tour, which is accompanied by an APP download on your mobile device.

It's important to download the APP prior to arriving for ease of check-in and flow. If you have trouble downloading, we can troubleshoot at the tour center, but please make sure you know your Apple ID or Google Play ID in order to download the APP.

Earbuds or hooking up your mobile device to Bluetooth in your car so everyone can hear the tour is recommended and allows for optimal hearing and ease of use to start and stop at your discretion. If you have any questions, our tour guide will be able to assist you at the tour headquarters.

Use the appropriate link below for Android or Apple or you may search for Palm Springs Windmill Tours in your App Store.

Apple App Store (iPhone) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/palm-springs-windmill-tour/id1549568896#platform=iphone

Google Play (Android) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mytoursapp.android.app2976

-If you have been exposed to COVD-19 in the last 14 days please reschedule until a positive COVID test is provided.

If you have any questions prior to the tour, please email us at info@[email protected] or call 800-531-5834.

Thank you for your cooperation and we look forward to seeing you soon!

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Children must be accompanied by an adult

What To Expect

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 starts with a display yard of non-operating wind turbines of successes and failures, along with a stop to a real generating wind turbine where you can get up close and take pictures. The tour ends with a stop at the old Enron machines. There you can exit on 19th Avenue to Indian Canyon Road more knowledgeable about renewable energy! The tour takes approximately one hour depending on your pace. We ask that you respect others by not gathering at the marked destinations. Please allow cars ahead of you to finish their exploration before your turn.

Cancellation Policy

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

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Reviews (267)

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Irish_Harry

Jan 2019

My husband and I live in Palm Springs and decided to take this windmill tour in order to see if we would recommend it to our winter visitors. We definitely recommend it. We arrived at the tour spot (literally in the middle of hundreds of wind powered instruments) and were warmly welcomed on a unusually wet afternoon. We were shown a 15 minute video of wind power in order to understand what we would be seeing on our tour. Our tour guide, Randy, was knowledgeable, professional and humorous. He answered our questions prior to and during our tour. Due to the unusually heavy rain, we toured the nearby outside area by bus (instead of on foot) and then we began our 1.5 hour bus tour around the various windmill farms. We never realized how extensive these farms are nor how many different types of these energy producing instruments are being used. Randy discussed the successes and failures of various windmill types as well and the future of this green technology. At the conclusion of the tour we were treated with probably the best date shakes in the valley. This is a great excursion for adults, seniors and teenagers, but probably not for little kids. Definitely worth a visit, but try to do it on a dry day, which is the case most of the year.

Response from Host

Jan 2019

Thank you for joining us and taking the time to write the playbook of the tour. We hope to see you again soon!

snirpy

Mar 2018

We were in Palm Springs last year and ran out of time to do this tour so we made it a priority this year and we were not disappointed! Very interesting and very informative. The bus was comfortable and the stops for photos were great! I recommend this tour if you are curious about the windmills.

Response from Host

Apr 2018

Thank you so much for giving us great feedback on your experience! We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed the tour and are glad you found it fun and informative. We thank you once again and hope to see you sometime again in the near future.

2004_Retirees

Mar 2018

We've been meaning to go on this tour for years. We finally took some visiting friends. It was interesting from the time we sat and watched the video and listened to the short lecture. Learning about some of the previous design failures and successes was also interesting. Once we were on the tour bus it got even more interesting. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable about the windmills and the various plants/trees in the area. His major in college was Biology! The windmills look 'not too big' from the freeway, but once you get up close, they are massive. When they give you the statistics on how high the towers are and how long the blades are, it's unbelievable. They also bring the point home by telling you that a 747 airplane can fit within the space of two of the blades! I asked why the tallest towers here are only 262 feet when the introductory video had towers that were over 350 feet? He said that the FAA has a restriction of 500 feet maximum of any structure in the flight path of the Palm Springs Airport.

Response from Host

Apr 2018

Thank you so much for giving us such a wonderful review on your experience! We are very happy to hear that you enjoyed the tour and are glad you found it both interesting and informative. We thank you once again and hope to see you sometime again in the near future.