Vacant land. Missile launch pads intact. At all six missile fields, local activists volunteered to drive the countryside and record driving directions to all locations, while maintaining legal distances from all facilities. New building and landscaping to the west of the former missile pads. Complete with radar towers, in use, use unknown. One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft. No radar towers. Offutt also hosted SAC tankers and Atlas missiles were deployed around the area in the early 1960s. Partially Intact, East Ramapo School District. 20th Century Castles offers missile bases, communications bunkers, silos and other unique, underground properties. John Reece, Chicago. . The solution was intercontinental ballistic missiles, which could be launched from Soviet soil. Radar towers removed. Abandoned, some buildings standing, magazine deteriorating but visible. With more than five years of writing experience, Elizabeths articles have been featured on several websites, and her poetry and short stories have been published in multiple literary journals. The MAF One small IFC building remains. Some berms still visible. Intact, Private ownership. An Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) was established at Caswell AFS, ME in 1957 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. IFC site operated by B/602nd (9/55-9/58) and B/4/5th (9/58-8/60), Still under US government control, Naval Surface Warfare Center. Hq Nike Group and staffing was located at the Avedre Lejr, at grid 5537'59"N 1226'55"E. Is fenced in, with a "No Trespassing" sign, guard shack and many buildings in good repair. Used as the Bedford Electronics Research Annex. Radar mount mounds on north side of site visible from Military Rd. The adjacent buildings are used by an EOD unit. Abandoned, vegetation (tall trees) growing in Magazine concrete. Intact, Department of Energy, silo currently used as lab for University of Washington research projects. Demolition of this facility began in 2015 and is now complete. Some IFC buildings in use. FDS Redeveloped into Croom Vocational High School, the launch site is identified as the auto, building trades, and grounds keeping school. Magazines appear intact. Appears to be a large water tower built on site. Buildings in use by company, magazine area visible being used as storage yard. The roof of the magazines make up the Upper Field of the dog park. Above ground launching site with berms protecting launchers. Abandoned, most buildings collapsed, one radar tower still standing. Command, maintenance, and fueling buildings now serve as the U.S. Border Patrol's Detroit Sector Headquarters. Also used as police firing range for the City of Gary, with former assembly building berm as the back stop. Abandoned and overgrown with trees. Anchorage; drug & alcohol rehab center. City of SeaTac WA Parks Dept. pinching the display with two fingers. No evidence of IFC. Abandoned site at the north end of the SRA/north shore of the lake, where S. Wolf lake Blvd. FDS. Totally obliterated; formerly a three-magazine (1B2C)/12-launcher facility with battery at Lake Shore Drive off the end of what's now I-55, south of the McCormick Place complex. No radar towers. Many foundations remain with broken concrete spread around area, roads in deteriorating condition. Some buildings may still be standing. Buildings in good condition, magazine area in use by the city police department as a vehicle storage area. High-end housing development, nothing remains. The Integrated Firing Control Site buildings & radars (formerly located at the end of Hutschenreuter Road in Fork were removed sometime in the early 1980s, and the property is now in private hands. Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Administrative Area buildings intact deteriorated. Magazine area visible from aerial imagery. Magazines visible, earth grading equipment moving dirt around area. Launch doors are probably sealed shut but visible along with Nike concrete launching pads. It was organized into a Missile Group (the overall staffing); a Support Wing (tech and log support), and 2 (9th and 13th) Missile Wings, each with 4 subordinate units. Wiloughby Eastlake School District. Buildings standing, magazines visible with launch doors probably welded shut. Missile Launching site converted to a private residence (including old missile silos) on Ind. There are two adjacent ski recreation areas. Ther are also sleeping quarters and eating areas above ground. You can "[28], Both magazines were unroofed and backfilled with earth. Magazines appear to be once under asphalted-over parking lot, however, access to one lift platform is now covered with dirt and the magazine is filled with water. Obliterated, City of Detroit. Apparently, magazines are still electrified, and used for covered underground storage. Wooded area behind Bristol Plaza Shopping Center and. On high ridge, elevation 3,750'. Private ownership. FDS. FDS. FDS. Now "Nike Overlook Park". Manned by the 2nd Missile Battalion, 562d Air Defense Artillery. Abandoned. Fort Monroe, HQ Training and Doctrine Command, Buildings in good shape, magazines covered with earth. Currently a paintball site under the name Blast Camp; site is in the middle of farm fields. Intact, Abilene Independent School District, in good shape. Intact, Explosives Technology. Ian Frazier, Great Plains, 1989 Buildings standing, looks abandoned. 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. On mountain peak. Buildings in use. FDS. Researchers are encouraged to review the appropriate finding aids at the National Archives at Chicago for additional records. Site is now utilized by the LAPD SWAT team for training. The Russian invasion of Ukraine brings back memories of the Cold War. Headquarters facilities were located at Camp Hanford. Intact, abandoned. Intact but decaying and falling apart, NPS-GGNRA, camp site, YMCA facility. Now "Turkey Hill Park". USAR Center. Former Ajax installation with 12 launchers. Private owners, buildings in good shape, appears to be single-family homes built on site. At that time it was redesignated; and Jurisdiction, Control, and Accountability assigned to Andrews AFB. Appears to be in good condition, no evidence of radar towers. FDS. WTTW News Explains: How Did Chicago Get Its Shape? Fenced with large number of hubcaps attached. No purchase necessary. Abandoned. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) S-90DC established at Fort Lawton AFS, WA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. Just east of here was located the launch control equipment for one of the three Nike complexes in Fairfax County. Launch area obliterated, owned by Fairfax County and repurposed as Popes Head Park; a marker close the site, Virginia Historic marker E98 states: Redeveloped into "Observatory Park". Now obliterated, High-end single-family housing, no evidence of IFC. "Missile Base Road". On 1 May 1961 PH-64DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site RP-63/Z-63 Nike operations were inactivated on 30 Sep 1966. Thank you! Private ownership, berms still in evidence in aerial imagery. Now under private ownership, Explosives Technology. Buildings in good condition, magazine being used as tractor trailer parking and storage site. Travis AFB Defense Area (T): Established to defend the USAF Strategic Air Command, later Military Airlift Command base. Intact, Abandoned, Pere Marquette State Park. Was an Unusual Salvador Dal Painting Actually His? Today, Nike Missile Base SL-40 near Hecker, Illinois, is the Beck Vocational Center; its buildings preserved through adaptive reuse. Access road to upper control site (IFC-1) inaccessible due to decades of vegetation growth taking back the road up to the top. The Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site was a Project Nike Missile Master site near Chicago, Illinois. No radar towers. It is also owned by the Michigan DNR. A few buildings overgrown with vegetation, some streets heavily overgrown. Obliterated, Wildcat Canyon Regional Park. Buildings removed, appears to be totally abandoned with no known use. Radar facility used as storage for Lannon County Park and as a US Cellular tower site. FDS. Barracks remaining. David Olsen Despite being decommissioned in 1984 and remaining abandoned for decades, the structure is surprisingly well preserved. Parks and Recreation, maintenance, building in use. The Army housing was commonly referred to as East Nike Housing Area, and was controlled by Ellsworth AFB until about 2000. Download the official NPS app before your next visit. The elevator still works in one magazine and is used at times to move the larger equipment. In aerial imagery, launch site appears to be abandoned and overgrown with trees and other vegetation. North Kingston Parks and Recreation Department sports complex. No evidence of IFC site. FDS. A few old IFC buildings in use, no radar towers. Now open to the public for tours by National Park Service staff. On or about 30 Dec 1963 the housing area next to the Launch Site was designated Ellsworth Family Housing Annex No 1, activated, and assigned to Ellsworth AFB. Concrete pad visible along with launch door (sealed). The missile launchers were in a large bermed compound on the other side of the lagoons adjoining the Edens Expressway, about a quarter of a mile south of Dundee Road. Magazines were sealed during environmental hazards assessment in the 1990s but were then opened and badly vandalized. Launchers obliterated. A battery of Nike missiles was installed at Belmont Harbor in the early 1950s. Some buildings still standing, unknown condition. For locations and views, fly in using Google Earth thanks to NikeSiteSearchers. But some remnants and buildings still stand, including in Wolf Lake where an actual Nike missile is on display. FDS. Partially intact, buildings being used, no evidence of radar towers. In private ownership, buildings appear standing. One diagram in particular raised a few eyebrows: It showed the location of a Missile Alert Facility, along with the silos for 10 nuclear weapons. HM-01DC was integrated with the USAF Air Defense Command/NORAD Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense radar network as Site Z-210. Initially, New York's air defenses had been manually coordinated from Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. Located within 1.5 hours of Missoula, Helena and Butte, off the grid and 7 miles North of I-90 off Brock Creek Rd which is not maintained for approx. Radar towers are almost invisible; access to any of the buildings is nearly impassable. Above-ground magazines protected by berms. Sign up for our morning newsletter to get all of our stories delivered to your mailbox each weekday. Built on a former World War II auxiliary field (#3) of Roswell AAF. Some construction on launching area, launch doors concreted over, but one of the two magazines had been converted into a gym. Other buildings erected and still appear to be in use. Since that time there have been hundreds of Atlas, Titan, Minuteman and Peacekeeper sites constructed all the way from Texas to North Dakota, New Mexico to Montana. Partially Intact, Army Engineering Support Buildings, After inactivation, the property reverted to Selfridge AFB. The other two Illinois facilities were in Grafton and Hector, with a fourth location in Pacific, Missouri. Missile silos are scattered across such vast expanses so that potential adversaries would have to target each missile individually. Units from the Bridgeport Defense Area assisted in operating the Plainville site. Located on Belle Isle, south of Blue Heron Lagoon, East side of Lakeside Drive, Obliterated, City of Detroit. Intact, NMArNG Miliray Academy. Almost all of the towers and control facilities are gone now including all traces at Montrose Harbor. The site is currently for sale. Overgrown and abandoned. Nike launching pads are visible, probably all sealed shut. Totally obliterated by new construction. L-31's housing area was taken over by the Air Force after the IFC was closed by the Army, and was redesignated as Loring Family Housing Annex #5. Site was never operational. On Bellows AFB, remains under US government control but abandoned. Redeveloped into American Foundation for Autistic Children. As the sites were decommissioned, they were first offered to federal agencies. The buildings are now used as a thrift store, Granny's Attic, and a medical clinic. Demolished Nov 2015 for a housing development. Some buildings standing as well as radar towers. Much of site overgrown with vegetation. Buildings have been razed but foundations remain; double-Nike-Ajax magazines badly cracked with wild vegetation overgrowing. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Small part US Army Reserve center. On high mountain peak. The Russian invasion of Ukraine brings back memories of the Cold War. Air Force operations at the site ended in 1962, and Nike operations were inactivated in 1974. Venus and Jupiter Will Be Side by Side in Wednesdays Night Sky. Launch site in good condition. Layer by Layer: A Mexico City Culinary Adventure, Sacred Granaries, Kasbahs and Feasts in Morocco, Monster of the Month: The Hopkinsville Goblins, Paper Botanicals With Kate Croghan Alarcn, Writing the Food Memoir: A Workshop With Gina Rae La Cerva, Reading the Urban Landscape With Annie Novak, How to Grow a Dye Garden With Aaron Sanders Head, Making Scents: Experimental Perfumery With Saskia Wilson-Brown, The Frozen Banana Stands of Balboa Island, The Paratethys Sea Was the Largest Lake in Earths History, How Communities Are Uncovering Untold Black Histories, The Medieval Thieves Who Used Cats, Apes, and Turtles as Accomplices, file:///C:/Users/msk51/Documents/misc/What%20Happened%20to%20Nike%20Missile%20Sites%20Around%20Chicago_%20_%20WBEZ.html. TV transmitter site. Used as a storage yard/junkyard. Many buildings standing, some razed. Remains an Army Reserve facility. It was organized into a Missile Group (the overall staffing); a Support Wing (tech and log support), and 2 (9th and 13th) Missile Wings, each with 4 subordinate units.