Terraserver
| 41-28-10 104-52-37
22 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
| Q-5
"Remain Calm"
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Terraserver
| 41-25-18 105-00-56
22 miles NW Cheyenne Wyoming
| Q-6
"Military Xenophobia"
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A nice site in that as you approach it, you are slightly above
it and get a better top-down view than most other sites.
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Terraserver
| 41-30-57 104-58-49
27 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
| Q-7
"Bristol Ridge Road"
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Terraserver
| 41-35-51 104-58-55
32 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
| Q-8
"Chalk Hill"
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You can faintly see where the cable enters the south end of
the enclosure, and possibly the north end as well.
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Terraserver
| 41-46-03 104-57-47
43 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
| Q-9
"Global Damage"
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Terraserver
| 41-42-12 104-55-51
39 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
| Q-10
"Radioactive Rain"
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An unexpected location in that it's cut into the side of
a hill in an area that apparently has erosion problems.
The west side has been covered in rock apparently to
arrest the erosion (look for the oval boundary inside the enclosure).
The driveway also has lots of
"stair steps" to reduce erosion on both sides.
Close enough to BNSF railroad tracks that blasting for demolition will require coordination
with the railroad.
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Terraserver
| 41-38-25 104-54-54
34 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
| Q-11
"Chugwater Creek"
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Terraserver
| 41-44-18 104-30-00
43 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(13 miles WSW Hawk Springs Wyoming)
| R-1
"County Commissioners'"
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I just thought it was interesting to see a public access walk-in sign,
from the Game & Fish department (implying public access for hunting)
right at the corner of the entrance to a Missile Altert Facility
(R-1 in this case). I imagine the crews would rather not see
hunters walking around their facility but can't stop them.
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Terraserver
| 41-43-50 104-25-11
44 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(9 miles WSW Hawk Springs Wyoming)
| R-2
"Castle Rocks"
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Terraserver
| 41-38-23 104-20-32
41 miles NE Cheyenne Wyoming
(9 miles W La Grange Wyoming)
| R-3
"Phillips"
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Terraserver
| 41-39-56 104-25-47
40 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(12 miles SW Hawk Springs Wyoming)
| R-4
"Diamond Flats"
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Terraserver
| 41-39-55 104-32-36
38 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(15.5 miles SE Chugwater Wyoming)
| R-5
"Ignorance"
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Terraserver
| 41-39-14 104-39-07
35 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(11 miles SE Chugwater Wyoming)
| R-6
"Buy or Die"
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Terraserver
| 41-43-10 104-36-56
40 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(10 miles E Chugwater Wyoming)
| R-7
"Pol Pot"
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Pol Pot, leader of the communist party Khmer Rouge,
was blamed for the slaughter of 2 million Cambodians,
which gave rise to the phrase "The Killing Fields."
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Terraserver
| 41-45-16 104-41-35
42 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(6.5 miles W Chugwater Wyoming)
| R-8
"Authoritarian"
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Terraserver
| 41-48-15 104-45-04
45 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(20 miles SE Wheatland Wyoming)
| R-9
"Totalitarian"
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Terraserver
| 41-48-51 104-39-46
46 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(22 miles SE Wheatland Wyoming)
| R-10
"Burning Wound"
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Terraserver
| 41-47-00 104-34-37
45 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(27 miles SE Wheatland Wyoming)
| R-11
"Goshen Hole Rim"
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Terraserver
| 41-52-24 104-13-20
58 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(5 miles SE Yoder Wyoming)
| S-1
"Laramie Canal"
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Terraserver
| 42-00-54 104-12-35
67 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(3.8 miles SSW Torrington Wyoming)
| S-2
"Headbanger"
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Terraserver
| 41-55-53 104-11-49
62 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(2.7 miles W Huntley Wyoming)
| S-3
"Pornographic"
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Close enough to Union Pacific railroad tracks that blasting for demolition will require coordination
with the railroad.
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Terraserver
| 41-55-48 104-05-40
65 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(2.6 miles E Huntley Wyoming)
| S-4
"Misogynist"
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I took the color picture because the overall effect was nice,
with the green fields and tree in the background.
This is an unusual site in that it's in a depression so you can look
slightly down on it.
This area is called Rattlesnake Hill.
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Terraserver
| 41-51-27 104-05-33
61 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(5.8 miles SE Huntley Wyoming)
| S-5
"Table Mountain"
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A good example of what you might see with a south-entry site.
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Terraserver
| 41-46-32 104-12-33
53 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(2.9 miles E Hawk Springs)
| S-6
"Present Danger"
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Terraserver
| 41-44-29 104-18-49
48 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(4.1 miles SW Hawk Springs Wyoming)
| S-7
"Only One Earth"
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S-7 is the first Peacekeeper site to be retired starting October 1 2002.
The color photo shows lots of vehicles topside during this process
but does not clearly show the security personnel looking at me with
their binoculars while I looked at them with my binoculars. I did
stay well away and made no sudden movements :-)
S-7 was chosen as the first for retirement because it was due for
maintenance.
The gate picture shows that the right-hand gate was either installed
backward or is a left-hand gate installed on the right (wrong)
side; the diagonal brace goes the wrong way and pulls the gate
into the ground rather than holding it up off the ground, note the
trench it's dug by doing so.
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Terraserver
| 41-47-55 104-24-13
49 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(7.3 miles W Hawk Springs Wyoming)
| S-8
"Friendly Fascism"
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Terraserver
| 41-51-05 104-21-52
53 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(5.8 miles SW Yoder Wyoming)
| S-9
"Stoking Ovens"
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Terraserver
| 41-56-28 104-28-40
57 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(9.5 miles W Yoder Wyoming)
| S-10
"Red Bill Hill"
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Terraserver
| 41-55-21 104-22-59
57 miles NNE Cheyenne Wyoming
(4.5 miles W Yoder Wyoming)
| S-11
"Rivers of Blood"
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Terraserver
| 41-59-51 104-47-31
58 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(9.4 miles ESE Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-1
"Macabre Experiment"
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A surprisingly lousy county road in both directions.
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Terraserver
| 42-02-57 104-43-55
62 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(12 miles E Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-2
"Eagle's Nest"
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Siloman listed T-2 at T-3's coordinates and did not list T-3.
These locations have been visually verified.
The other picture was taken of a house between T-2 and T-3.
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Terraserver
| 42-06-18 104-39-54
66 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(15.7 miles ENE Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-3
"Deer Creek"
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Siloman listed T-2 at T-3's coordinates and did not list T-3.
These locations have been visually verified.
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Terraserver
| 41-58-51 104-43-37
57 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(13 miles ESE Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-4
"Magistrate's Extrajudicial"
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A clear example of a road dead-ending at a launch facility.
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Terraserver
| 41-52-22 104-43-44
50 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(17 miles SE Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-5
"Munition Execrable"
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Terraserver
| 41-55-50 104-47-15
54 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(12 miles SE Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-6
"Mandatory Exode"
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Terraserver
| 41-52-14 104-49-51
50 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(12 miles SSE Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-7
"Mangled Exit"
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Terraserver
| 41-51-19 104-54-50
49 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(13.5 miles S Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-8
"Mussolini's Exile"
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Terraserver
| 41-55-54 104-56-00
54 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(8 miles S Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-9
"Antelope Creek"
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July 21, 2003 -- Russian inspectors watch as T-9's first stage is
removed as part of the ongoing decommissioning of the Peacekepper
system. This is the 14th site to be deactivated. Of course it's
interesting that they just happen to show up during Cheyenne Frontier
Days and get to watch a rodeo (a friend tells me that many Warren AFB
inspections just happen to be scheduled during Frontier Days).
Terraserver
| 42-00-03 104-57-06
59 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(3.4 miles S Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-10
"Magnified Exploitation"
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Terraserver
| 42-06-45 104-52-04
66 miles N Cheyenne Wyoming
(6.4 miles NE Wheatland Wyoming)
| T-11
"Masculine Excrescence"
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Directly east of a major coal-fired power plant constructed long
after the launch facility. I wonder what havoc
the site's existence had on the power plant siting and layout, and/or what
effect the plant has on the site (e.g. vibration might impact the missile's
navigation system, and ground water seepage might increase sump pump rates
in the silo). The Terraserver picture is quite nice if you zoom out a bit
from the URL I provide above.
On March 3, 2008, Rich Burton sent me a great story about this site:
Around early summer of 1978 I believe, work was well under way
building that power plant. My flight always worked the
north sites P Q R S and T. I was the Flight Security
Controller working nights one tour at T-1, the Launch
Control Facility. As you can image it was awfully awfully
boring during the 7 pm to 7 am shifts, usually nothing ever
happens, but the MCN line (the ringer from the missile
commander to me topside) begins ringing, we had had severe
thunderstorms most all day so my expectation from the
commander was a another security alert message from one of
the LFs, we often got them during severe weather that I
would have to dispatch my Alarm Team to, they had been
running these all night and it had just calmed down and
they were on their way back to the LCF. In a panicked
voice the commander says quick go to the window on the
north side of the Security Control Center. Still very
anxious he says what do you see, I replied what I usually
see just a lot of darkness beyond the boundaries of the LCF.
He says nothing? Just about that time there was a flash of
lightning on the horizon that was pretty dazzling and I said
wow. He sounds like he's crapping himself by now and said
what do you see? I said just a flash of lighting.
By now I can hear warning buzzers going off over his line
with me and he say we've just had a missile away light on
the console for T-11, are there any streaks in the sky.
I said no and of course we all began our processes to
respond and see what was going on. Some time the next day
they finally go to the site, seems with all the construction
the runoff from the power plant and the heavy rains flooded
badly and went to the natural lowest point right beside but
outside the T-11 LF and harmlessly into a big gully beyond
the site to the west, but it washed out the cables that
connect the LCF to the LF. They still had full control over
the LF during that time via HF and UHF so there was no true
incident. I visited the next day and the erosion was
unbelievable to wash out cables that deep and as big around
as 6" of hardened cable. To this day, I laugh when I tell
that story but I but the poor officer that thought he had
lost a missile was downright scared.
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Terraserver
| 41-08-43 104-50-51
0 miles W Cheyenne Wyoming
| U-01, U-02
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U-01 and U-02 are on Warren AFB and are used for training. U-01 is
for Minuteman III training, U-02 for Peacekeeper. So far these are the only
two "sites" where the leading zero is included on the sign on the
fence (i.e. you see A-1, not A-01, out in the field). I visited these
during an open house 7/22/01. We saw the interior of U-02 including
the top of a dummy re-entry vehicle (also the security "A-plug"), but
did not go into U-01 due to work in progress. In the Terraserver
photo, the two sites are in the lower right with U-02 on the west,
U-01 immediately adjacent to the east. Note they are aligned
north/south as in the field while the rest of the base in this area is
not. Visited again 7/21/02. In U-02 the payload was removed; saw
U-01 this time.
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Terraserver
| 41-08-30 104-52-50
0 miles W Cheyenne Wyoming
| WSA
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Weapons Storage Area (WSA). Note the concentric fences, helipad
immediately east, and the apparent small unpaved landing strip
just southeast.
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Terraserver
| 41-10-11 104-52-45
0 miles W Cheyenne Wyoming
| Peacekeeper assembly and storage
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I'm told this is the Peacekeeper missile assembly, storage,
and checkout area.
In fact there is a nice diagram in the Environmental Impact
Statements referenced near the top of this web page.
Note the rail line that comes in from the east and continues to the
southeast of the complex.
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