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.
Posted By : Coastal622361
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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Posted On : 2024-06-30 15:29:06 
Posted By : Karen C
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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Posted On : 2024-06-03 22:19:35
Posted By : BigCane00
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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Posted On : 2024-05-21 22:38:23
Posted By : PhotoDudeIII
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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Posted On : 2024-05-01 21:10:00
Posted By : caflygrl
We were a family of 2 seniors, 3 adults and 2 kids (10 and 11). We had just done Joshua Tree the day before (with an audio guide app) so I think we had high hopes for this - plus the reviews were really awesome! For most of us, the most interesting part was the "orientation" in the Welcome Center watching the movie and learning about wind, and other green energy, not just in CA but all around the world. The guy answering questions was super knowledgeable and we all found him very enjoyable.
The actual tour was a bit dry. This tour an audio tour from their app, not a guided one. It was interesting to see the Blade Yard and how many iterations the windmills had to go through to get to the huge ones we have today. It was (obviously) super windy so I was the only one brave enough to get out and snap a few photos.
I think if this tour had been something like $20/car I would have thought it was worthy of a stop if you've got time on your trip. However we paid $85 for the 7 of us making it one of the more expensive activities on our vacation.
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Posted On : 2024-04-07 17:31:26
Posted By : JeremyM474
Nice concise video intro before the tour then Tom took us in a golf cart. Had a step for anyone with mobility issues and gave a leisurely informative stop and go tour. Classy and knowledgeable and personable.
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Posted On : 2024-04-04 00:55:58
Posted By : 848terrig
Great tour. Even better host who greeted us. The informational video is fantastic. Would definitely take the tour again
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Posted On : 2024-03-25 12:11:36
Posted By : Kevin_K
The greeter was awesome. He provided great information before we went into the wind farm. We were able to your at our own pace.
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Posted On : 2024-03-05 12:11:56 
Posted By : Claudia M
We really enjoyed the informative video before the driving tour. Our questions were answered by the attendant afterwards. The driving tour was through the wind field with up close view of the component parts of the windmills with App explanations. We felt we got our money’s worth.
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Posted On : 2024-03-04 14:03:06
Posted By : Tourist625907
Our guide, Tom, was excellent. Answered all the quirky questions. Having known absolutely nothing going in, it is a great short educational opportunity!
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Posted On : 2024-02-22 17:14:59
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