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Palm Springs Windmill Tours is a business operating tours for the public on a privately owned 100-acre parcel within the San Gorgonio Pass wind farm. It has videos and informational displays in its welcome center, as well as an outdoor museum consisting of wind turbine artifacts from the 1980s.
According to the company's website, tours include self-guided tours and two versions of guided tours on electric golf carts.[1] All tours include limited access to the property where several modern utility-scale wind turbines operate.
History
[edit]Tours first operated with electric golf cart tours at the site of Palm Springs Windmill Tours in 1994.[2] The early tours were also featured in an episode of Huell Howser's California Gold in 1998[3] and were occasionally described in local newspapers.[4]
According to Fred Noble, president of Wintec Energy, which owns the property, tour operations suspended in 2001 but reinstated as Palm Springs Windmill Tours in 2014.[5][6] Tours operated on a bus, touring guests on the private property and on public roads throughout the wind farm area.
In 2020, the tours stopped operating a bus and changed to self-guided tours during the COVID-19 pandemic,[7] adding guided golf cart tours in 2021.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Palm Springs Windmill Tours | Windmill Farm Tours in Palm Springs". Palm Springs Windmill Tours. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
- ^ Gipe, Paul (2023-04-17). "Kicking Iron in the San Gorgonio Pass--Palm Springs Windmill Tours". WIND WORKS. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
- ^ "Wind – Visiting (610) – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University". 1998-10-28. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
- ^ Anderson, Bert (February 17, 2000). "Windmill tours draw many fascinated visitors to valley". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. p. 17.
- ^ California Secretary of State Business Search, initial LLC filing 2014, Control ID 201405210185.
- ^ Descant, Skip (Nov 22, 2014). "Who has seen the windmills?". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. pp. A29–A30.
- ^ Daniels, Melissa (June 20, 2020). "It's Officially Summer". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. pp. A1, A6.
- ^ "Looking for a unique attraction in Palm Springs? Check out the Windmill Tours". ABC7 Los Angeles. 2023-09-29. Retrieved 2024-10-15.