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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: Our most recommended tours and activities

Palm Springs: Self-Driving Windmill Tour

Palm Springs: Self-Driving Windmill Tour

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.

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Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: Our most recommended tours and activities

Palm Springs: Self-Driving Windmill Tour

Palm Springs: Self-Driving Windmill Tour

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.

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What people are saying about Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

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Great experience! We chose to do the self-guided tour and took our time to get out at each stop (there are (10) after listening to the audio. The app was very informative, not only providing the text to the audio, but also facts and figures. We spent two hours from start to finish and enjoyed learning about the industry”s evolution and growth. Worth the visit and definitely recommend either the self-guided or golf cart tour!

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Excellent information and a great learning experience that was actually very interesting, too. Learned a lot that we knew nothing about & learned things that we didn’t even know existed. Certainly worth the time and money.

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Very educational and informative! Rich, who manages the information center, was especially helpful.