Draft:Palm Springs Windmill Tours
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Palm Springs Windmill Tours is a business that operates 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 site where several modern utility-scale wind turbines operate.
History
[edit]E V Adventures LLC first operated tours on electric bicycles and golf carts in 1997.[2][3] The idea for a wind farm tour arose from a conversation between Fred Noble, who started the first San Gorgonio Pass wind farm in 1982, and Mike Tyer, a retired dentist.[4]
The early tours were also featured in an episode of Huell Howser's California Gold in 1998[5] and were occasionally described in local newspapers.[6]
According to Fred Noble, who is president of Wintec Energy that owns the property, tour operations suspended in 2001 but returned as Palm Springs Windmill Tours at the same location in 2014.[7] Tours operated on a bus, touring guests on the private property and on public roads throughout the wind farm area.
Palm Springs Windmill Tours retired its bus operations during the COVID-19 pandemic,[8] launching self-guided tours for family units that complied with local rules at that time. They added guided golf cart tours in 2021.
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.
- ^ "California Secretary of State Business Search". 199701510040. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ Brown, Deborah (March 11, 1997). "Tourists blown away by wind farm tours". The Desert Sun. p. 2930.
- ^ "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". bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov. 201405210185. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ Daniels, Melissa (June 20, 2020). "It's Officially Summer". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. pp. A1, A6.
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