The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky has announced this year’s dates for tour availability for the GM Bowling Green assembly plant where the venerable Chevy Corvette has been built since 1981. You can’t just show up at the front door if you want a tour; you must go through the NCM to get a full tour of the plant.
2025 tours will be available in the following weeks:
- Week of August 11th
- Week of August 25th
- Week of November 10th (except Veterans Day, November 11th)
There are also several stipulations tourers need to agree to in order to sign up for a tour. Here are some of the rules:
- Must be age 13 or older
- Must book tickets online in advance – tickets aren’t available for purchase in person at the museum
- Must have printed tickets in hand
- Must wear close-toe, closed-heel shoes (no heels)
- No bags, phones, cameras, or electronics, including smartwatches
- Must be willing to arrive 30 minutes early
The tour in question guides you through the Corvette assembly process from start to finish. The National Corvette Museum acts as the public-facing ticket provider for organized plant tours; it’s the only way the general public can tour the plant. The NCM warns ticket buyers that production may not actually be taking place while you’re there, but the tour will commence, regardless. Sorry, no refunds if production is paused during your time slot for the tour.
By the time the next round of plant tours happens, production will be under way for the 2026 Chevy Corvette, which is debuting a redesigned interior and the stunning new ZR1X hybrid hypercar variant. As we reported in April, the start of regular production (SORP) for the 2026 Corvette is scheduled for August 4th, 2025. Dealers will be able to submit orders for the 2026 Corvette starting June 26th, 2025. Production of the current 2025-model-year C8 Corvette is slated to end on August 1st.
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Hopefully, constraints are cleared up before SORP.
What a bummer it’s only certain weeks. Has it always been like that or only since COVID maybe? I’ve been to the museum a number of times but never made the assembly plant and always wanted to.
I was on the tour some years ago. It was before the sinkhole at the museum. At that time the tour was run by GM. The tour was given 3 times a day, no reservations and it was free. You just had to show up on time.
than GREED set in. And the rest is history.
Wowzers. Plant tours are $50 per person.
$50? Wow! Was free when I took the tour just before the tours were stopped.