Offer subject to change without notice. Perimeter fencing is intact and sturdy. Launcher area now motor pool for military vehicles. Site was never operational. American Indian Center Singing Winds Site. On 15 Dec 1956 jurisdiction, control, and accountability transferred back to the Army. Two radar towers remain on the property of a landscape business. Private ownership, now MPL Industries. C-44 Hegewisch/Wolf Lake. 421331.44N 0875653.52W / 42.2254000N 87.9482000W / 42.2254000; -87.9482000 (C-94-LS). The Formerly Used Defense Sites (FDS) program processed many former sites and then transferred them out of Defense Department control.[7]. The units were HHB and B/75th (11/54-9/58), HHB and B/3/562nd (9/58-6/60) and MDArNG B/3/70th (6/60-3/63). On high ridge, elevation 3,750'. CAArNG, 458th MASH facility. All barracks but one have been demolished and land is unused. Site is now the location of the University of Texas System Police Academy. Magazine area has been partially filled in, severe cracking of concrete, abandoned. Site cleared and redeveloped on top of ridge. Lately, many have been closed and the . Excavated into a pond. Launchers probably intact. The AAFC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site SM-151 / Z-151. Missile silo designed to withstand nuclear strike on sale for $380K Some broken concrete remains of launch area. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. Alert Operations and the Strategic Air Command, This is What Its Like to Be in Control of the Most Powerful Weapons on the Planet, U.S. ICBM to Replace 1970s Minuteman May Cost $111 Billion. There's a garage for vehicles. 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Site is across Industrial Highway from former launch site. No evidence of IFC - Correction - IFC was located at the top of a hill on the corner of Ratzer and Alps Roads including radar towers as late as 1980. "[28], Both magazines were unroofed and backfilled with earth. One old military building remains. FDS. A few military buildings still in use, new construction. Part of old access road still visible from Pitman Road. 392119N 0765102W / 39.35528N 76.85056W / 39.35528; -76.85056 (BA-79-LS), 384611N 0764351W / 38.76972N 76.73083W / 38.76972; -76.73083 (W-35-LS), 383917N 0765120W / 38.65472N 76.85556W / 38.65472; -76.85556 (W-44-LS), 384315N 0771441W / 38.72083N 77.24472W / 38.72083; -77.24472 (W-64-CS), "During the Cold War a ring of Nike anti-aircraft missile sites defended the nation's capital, reminiscent of the perimeter of forts that protected it during the Civil War. mouse with a scroll wheel, the wheel controls zooming. Buildings torn down, foundations remain. Launch pad doors still visible, but concrete has been covered by soil and is now a grassy area. Partially intact. The markers are color-coded by flights. Buildings standing, magazines visible with launch doors visible. Some buildings still standing and in use by Independence Board of Education. Get more stories delivered right to your email. Nike Park In Addison, Illinois Is On A Missile Launch Site The building that housed the Missile Master site is still standing and concrete paddocks that held radar tower are still visible. The Shutter Nike Missile Base is tucked away behind a gated fence near the Monroe County Village of Hecker Illinois with a population of about 500. Redeveloped as Bristol County Development Center, no remains. full-screen. City of Virginia Beach, Parks and Recreation offices. Actual missile area had 3 building to hold missiles, and rails to slide them outside. No buildings or signs of magazines. Theres a Cold War missile launch site in Addison, Illinois that is now home to a charming park where children play. No towers. Remains an Army Reserve facility. Looks like some vehicles are parked on concrete pads. By Donald E. 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Now "Nike Overlook Park". Concrete launcher foundations partially intact, Microwave/Communication Facility. A large elevator would bring the missiles to the surface, and crew members would push the missile to position. Leftover traces of the approximately 265[2] Nike missile bases can still be seen around cities across the United States. FDS. Not much else. Also used as police firing range for the City of Gary, with former assembly building berm as the back stop. Jackson Parks old site is now a golf course. Redeveloped into high-end single-family housing. In May 1954, during the the Cold War, the United States Army Defense Command announced the construction of more than 300 Nike anti-aircraft installation sites in 28 states. Private ownership, electrical service, buildings and radar towers standing. Next, turn left on Wolf Lake Drive and follow it all the way back to where the road forks. Fort Monroe, HQ Training and Doctrine Command. Appears to be a tower also present. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. Abandoned and overgrown site at the south end of lake/state recreation area. In the mid-1990s, the site was sold to another developer who turned the control area into the Briarwood development. Most buildings were razed, with no radar towers. Municipal complex storage yard. An Illinois transplant who grew up and went to school in Indiana for 22 years, Elizabeth holds a BFA in creative writing and has enjoyed traveling across the country and parts of Europe. The site, known officially as 550th SMS Site 2, was constructed in 1961 and decommissioned on June 25, 1965. Now L-58C is used as a Long Range Radar (LRR) site by the FAA, designated "J-63" equipped with ARSR-4 Radar. Abandoned, now known as the Rochester-Utica State Recreation Area and the Shadebush Environmental Educational Center. Most buildings in good condition, magazine in good condition. Radars used at Fire Island were CPS-6B, FPS-8, CPS-4, FPS-20A, FPS-6B. Redeveloped as multiple-family housing. Built on 11 acres of land, the silo was specifically home to the. If you're using an IOS device like an iPhone or iPad, double-tapping the display zooms in but tapping does not zoom Intact double underground magazine, Small arms storage, firing, and maneuvering range. These are MAJOR nuclear war targets, each one of these silo's will be hit with minimum one warhead with a fairly large yield as part of a Russian counterforce attack. Almost all of the towers and control facilities are gone now including all traces at Montrose Harbor. Some buildings standing, used for school bus storage. Three magazines in place but buried. One building standing, sold to a local brewery and currently being refurbished into brewery and restaurant. No radar towers showing in aerial imagery. Magazine now an auto junkyard. Private ownership, Radio transmitter, Cell tower built on site. 400659N 0745330W / 40.11639N 74.89167W / 40.11639; -74.89167 (PH-15-LS). One old foundation remains of IFC, also some old roads not severely deteriorated Appears to be a radio tower, transmitter site and a large water tank on the site. Site demolished and cleared. The U.S. government began phasing out Nike bases in the mid-1960s amid budget cuts. One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States. Magazine area appears to be an auto junkyard, although intact, appears to be a large garage, auto dismantling building erected over the magazine. Some concrete foundations visible, Magazine now used as auxiliary gym. The site was purchased by a developer with a school built on the launch area. Buildings in good condition, magazine area in use by the city police department as a vehicle storage area. Fenced. While all of the munitions have been removed from the site, one of the decomissioned missiles is still on display in nearby Villa Park, Illinois, in front of the town's VFW hall. The MAF's are also a target. The park currently owns three Ajax missiles and one Hercules. In a two-week period, 24 hours a day, the Army Corps of Engineers literally built an island in the swamp by bringing in thousands of truck loads of earth fill to build an elevated land surface for the missiles and radars which would keep the equipment elevated above the Everglades water level. 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The missiles were decommissioned in 1974 as the Cold War came to an end, but remnants remain all around the country to this day. to defend this nuclear industrial complex. Now County highway maintenance storage facility. AADCP inactivated 1 September 1974 and dissolved as part of the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. Also the lawn is cut! . Ian Frazier, Great Plains, 1989 W-45 was manned by the A/75th (11/54-9/58), A/3/562nd (9/58-6/60) and MDArNG B/3/70th (6/60-12/61) ADA. Now under private ownership, Explosives Technology. Launch area concrete badly cracked, doors rusting, all of the magazines are filled to surface level with groundwater due to the high water table in the area. Underground single-magazine intact, Private Ownership. Three sites were deactivated in December 1958 as only Saddle Mountain was converted to the new Nike Hercules. Privately owned, abandoned and overgrown, surrounded on north and east by a new subdivision. In private ownership, buildings appear standing. 4255'04.5"N 8809'57.6"W. Demolished as of 2014. Abandoned, in private hands. Appear to have been dug up and filled with earth. Nike Carlton: 3B/20A/12L-A Newport: 3B/18H, 30A/12L-UA, FDS Derelict, but partially intact. A wonderful private oasis! Magazines visible behind parking lot. D-15DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site P-20 / Z-20 The Air Force ceased radar operations when the Army no longer needed radar support and the AADCP was inactivated 1 Sep 1974. Pittsburgh Defense Area (PI): At first, three active Army battalions manned the ring around "Steel City". Magazines visible, earth grading equipment moving dirt around area. It has been in use as a secured communications site for various federal agencies, including BLM, FAA, FCC, FBI, IRS, and others. Site at end of Adrian Drive. Were intercontinental ballistic missiles ever housed or siloed at Montrose Harbor? Radars were FPS-93A and in 1982 the FPS-117 was installed. It could also be equipped with nuclear warheads. Map showing the areas of the six Minuteman Missile wings on the central and northern Great Plains. Used for herding rams and storage. West side of site largely forested with little evidence of use. Each flight is a group of 10 missile silos controlled by a Missile Alert Facility (MAF). Barracks buildings remain intact and little altered. Please respect private property and observe these sites from the road. It was inactivated on 1 Oct 1980, declared excess on 15 Dec 1980, then reactivated on 12 May 1981 and remained in use until the closure of Loring Air Force Base in 1995. Nothing remains except large open area. Site redeveloped to Village of Orland Park Department of Public Works. Was used as a storage site for construction supplies by the university's building contractors at first. FDS. It resides within an Army Reserve facility. The owner had planned to use it as a Law Enforcement Training facility, however, after rejecting a bid submitted by a construction company owned by the Planning Commission Chairman, the owners requests for permits were rejected. Peninsula Airport Commission. Private ownership. Property given to North Allegheny School District. Harry P. Barbier Memorial Park. Most buildings razed and rebuilt as a Relay site. Also quite a few junk vehicles. Many foundations remain with broken concrete spread around area, roads in deteriorating condition. This Cold Warera fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency. Site was both an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master and later AN/GSG-5(V) BIRDIE Radar Direction Center. Some IFC buildings still in-use, part of site also used by "Rolnick Observatory" also using old IFC buildings. Intact, City of LA, White Point Park. Large number of cars, boats, large RVs. View waymark gallery. It was designed for manual operations, using plexiglass plotting boards and telephonic inputs. David Olsen Despite being decommissioned in 1984 and remaining abandoned for decades, the structure is surprisingly well preserved. Elevators cemented over. St. Louis Defense Area (SL): The Chicago District of the Corps of Engineers oversaw the design and construction. Redeveloped into Nike Park Sports Complex on Diehl Road. Missile launch facility - Wikipedia There were no intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICMBs at Montrose Harbor. If youve ever been to this missile launch site park, wed love to hear from you. Partially intact, on "Nike Road". Buildings well maintained, appears to be 3 radar towers to the east of the buildings still standing. Intact, NMArNG Miliray Academy. Current status is unknown. Magazines probably in good condition, launch area being used for trailer and outside storage. Heres why the US Air Force isnt concerned. The Launch Area is still fenced in, although the access road to the magazine area leads to a storage yard and Commercial Driver Training course. No radar towers. No evidence of IFC site. Location: Illinois, United States. Has been turned into a public horse park named Paradise Ridge. FDS. Many buildings standing, some razed. A new structure adjacent to "A" Section houses offices formerly used by the Baltimore County Fire Department Rescue Academy but now houses the Baltimore County Department of Public Works Safety Office and Training Academy. One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft. Three launch areas. Cleared land, no evidence except a few pipes emerging from below ground; apron off Forest Way still visible. . No evidence remains of LS. Largely intact, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department, Bossier Parish SWAT field training site. 374132N 1222652W / 37.69222N 122.44778W / 37.69222; -122.44778 (SF-59-CS). Later re-used as an Aerojet facility but now abandoned. Buildings in use by company, magazine area visible being used as storage yard. Some buildings standing, Now USG Plant. A few, such as site C-44 in southeastern Chicago can still be. But the Ajax could only travel about 25 miles, which military leaders felt was not far enough to be an effective air defense. Dyess AFB Defense Area (DY): Installed to defend the SAC bombers and Atlas F missile silos stationed at and around Dyess AFB. Private ownership, good shape. FDS. A few buildings in use by Teen Challenge; drug & alcohol rehab center. Note: The Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 had a yield of 15 kilotons. The concrete area around magazines, in good shape, appears to be used as a storage yard. Partially intact. Buildings in use by park personnel. FDS. The IFC was assigned as an off-base installation to Ellsworth AFB on 25 May 1961. Used as the Bedford Electronics Research Annex. Largely obliterated. The green pond in the upper-right of the photo is the poo pond that processes waste. The housing area in Brandywine, Maryland, supported Washington Nike Site W-36 from approximately 1957 1961. (WTTW Archive). Owned by Burlington Recreation Commission. It was subsequently closed by 1990. Redeveloped into large school and recreational area of the Long Beach School District. The three underground magazines are existent and in reasonably good condition. Buildings in use as "4-H Park and County Fairgrounds". Magazines are present, welded shut, and badly degraded. of Public Works, poor condition, being used as a storage yard. No radar towers. Portion of the bike trail from Tower Road to the launch complex was original road used to access the base. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left;width:100%;font-weight:normal;}, Beyond Chicago from the Air with Geoffrey Baer, The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special. In reasonable condition. Barracks and some minor buildings intcdt, also new industrial building constructed on back of site. This program, known as Project Nike, was the first operational American anti-aircraft system. Now Nickerson Beach/Chappel Rock Park. Former double magazine. Redeveloped, Private ownership, light industrial storage yard. Buildings demolished in December 2020. The area is off-limits to visitors at Angel Island State Park. No radar towers. Some traces of building foundations but nothing of missile launchers or magazines. The AADCP inactivated in 1966. Magazines visible, concrete heavily cracked. Nike Missile Launch Site In Southern Illinois Can Be Yours For The 20th century castles, llc has sold 60 properties. McGregor Guided Missile Range, New Mexico. Used to be well preserved for its years of age and disuse, but the underground batteries were demolished and filled in 2001. A few vehicles being stored in abandoned berm area, appears in good shape. Launch area now fenced off and used as a dumping ground for dredging operations and is not open to the public, complex perimeter can be viewed from the bicycle trail. private retirement home. FDS. It was being used as a Day Camp for children, but is now abandoned. FDS. Several radar towers standing. The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile wings. The site was initially an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center. Headquarters facilities were located at Camp Hanford. Private ownership. Buildings in good condition and in use. Map showing the location of the Minuteman Missile Visitor Center, Launch Control Facility Delta-01 and Launch Facility (Missile Silo) Delta-09. Hanford Defense Area (H): Nike missiles replaced and augmented gun batteries that had been previously installed Was Midway School. USAR Center. FEMA team headquarters, and missile site still accessible. The 436th AAAB was redesignated as an antiaircraft artillery missile battalion on 5 January 1957 and subsequently occupied four Nike Ajax sites, which went to 1st Missile Battalion, 61st Artillery on 1 September 1958. Some foundations of buildings, remainder of streets. This silo's security gate is 547 feet from the road. FDS Redeveloped into Croom Vocational High School, the launch site is identified as the auto, building trades, and grounds keeping school. Razed and redeveloped into Montrose Harbor Park (part of the. Intact, USAR Center Orangeburg. DallasFort Worth Defense Area (DF): For air defense of Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Demolished, open lot owned by Michigan DNR. Intact, located off North Locust Street just north of Denton, Texas was converted for use as an astronomical observatory of the University of North Texas after decommissioning. It was later equipped with the AN/GSG-5(V) BIRDIE solid-state computer system. C-41 Jackson Park. Concrete launch pads still visible. becomes S. State Line Rd. FDS. Perhaps some structures in the overgrowth. Obliterated, paved over for tractor trailer parking lot. FDS. Buildings in good condition, the old radar towers are still standing. Links: Sandy Hook Tours:: Site NY-56:: Gateway National Park:: NJ 14 Missile Bases:: NY-56 History:: Trip Advisor:: Highlands Air Force Station, 332609N 1042007W / 33.43583N 104.33528W / 33.43583; -104.33528 (W-10-LS). Ask him. Now obliterated, Park, ownership by Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Coventry Park. Now a grassy area south of Belmont Harbor along the Chicago lakefront in Lincoln Park. Above-ground site with launchers protected by berms. and its ten silos is called a flight. Obliterated. Most buildings being used by the Maryland Wing, Civil Air Patrol with small area used by the Maryland State Police K-9 Division. The control in the upper-right corner of the map (it shows the four corners of a box) allows you to see the map Ajax launch covers visible, some obscured by buildings, two launch doors for Hercules, probably welded shut. Buildings removed, appears to be totally abandoned with no known use. Green Hills Area Education Agency Central Office. Bay doors and elevators still work and are still in use by owners. Most public. All six magazines are concreted over. On 1 October 1961 W-13DC was integrated with USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-54/Z-227. that appear on the map. Other buildings erected and still appear to be in use. Just east of here was located the launch control equipment for one of the three Nike complexes in Fairfax County. Abandoned and overgrown with weeds. FDS. C-80DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-31 / Z-31. Mix of new and old buildings. Mostly redeveloped, magazine area in poor condition, used as storage yard and parking lot. The AADCP inactivated on 1 Sep 1974. Northwest side of what is now Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Redeveloped area in northern tip of airport now has a general aviation hangar, parking lot and ramp area for aircraft parking. Buildings, some radar towers. Site Summit is listed in the, Intact Army ownership, best preserved Alaskan Site. Buildings were torn down. IFC mostly taken over by woods, some buildings still stand, asphalted area badly cracked. 1 The U.S. Department of Defense chose Marine as one of the four sites for a Nike Missile Base in the St. Louis area. Inactivated by 1974. Most touch screen devices will zoom by They were said to be the last line of defense. Is on County Road 80S in Castle Rock, Minnesota. There were also sites in Wolf Lake, Fort Sheridan, the Skokie Lagoons and elsewhere placed strategically to overlap so that no part of the Chicago-area would be left unprotected. U.S. Nuclear Missile SILO Fields Maps and Coordinates The people who work in the Missile Alert Facilities are called missileers. Visitors are also allowed access to one of the sections barn's. Their defending area was the industrial Ruhr area. The administrative, housing, and launch complex area was located just west of South Lake Shore Drive, between the 59th St Harbor and Hayes Dr. Every fall, the park holds a, Obliterated, only foundations remain, Township owned. Batteries paved over with asphalt, new building construction. FDS. There were more active silos in the past. Redeveloped into Gardner Unified School offices. Above ground magazines protected by berms. Especially to the East of them which is the direction of prevailing winds. FDS. David's Island. Today, the housing is abandoned and the homes had been removed, leaving the basements exposed. Buildings standing, looks abandoned. No radar towers. Evidence of IFC structures on hill behind buildings. Missile Sites. 5 miles. After being closed by the Army in 1974, in 1976 the housing part of PH-41/43 was transferred to the Air Force for use by Gibbsboro AFS, New Jersey. Army ownership on Ft Wainwright property, Army terrorism training site. Administrative Area buildings intact deteriorated. Abandoned. Initially the U.S. used Nike Ajax missiles. High-end housing development, nothing remains. N 41 48.039 W 088 09.142. Some buildings are in use, but no radar towers. As the U.S. and other countries enact sanctions against Russia, some remnants of escalating tensions between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. still stand in Chicago. Obliterated, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. Intact, LA County Fire Camp #9 and GTE cellular relay station. A missile may have a MIRVed warhead, containing three W78 350-kiloton warheads, to attack three targets.