Palm Springs: Self-Driving Windmill Tour – Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California

EXPERIENCE

The Palm Springs windmill self-driving tour is an interactive, educational, and fun tour for friends and family. This tour will guide you along with an audio program provided through an app with clearly marked destinations throughout the first commercial wind farm in Southern California.

After check-in at the Tour Center, you will see a 15-minute video before your self-driving tour. There are exhibits inside the Tour Center on wind energy. You will then be given a map and directed to where to start your tour.

You will then take a journey through 10 marked stops, starting with a display yard of non-operating wind turbines. Learn about the successes and failures and visit a real generating wind turbine, where you can get up close and take pictures. Continue to a solar farm and end the tour with a stop at the old gas plant.

HIGHLIGHTS

Explore the evolution of wind turbines
Learn how wind turbines generate energy
Expand your knowledge about renewable wind energy

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