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UER Forum > UE Photography > California Missile Dreaming (Viewed 1628 times)
UnchartedSights 


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California Missile Dreaming
< on 6/16/2015 3:58 AM >
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After having spent over a year of my life in California on different family vacations, I finally made it out there after having picked up my photography and urbex passions. After doing some research, I was shocked to find an abandoned missile base just minutes outside the city limits of where my relatives lived. Needless to say, my target was locked. An abandoned Nike missile base was in my sights and nothing was going to stop me from getting in. Not the "Private Road Only" signs, not the brush fire a short ways down the road, not the $5 regional park parking fee, nor the 150ft 70% grade climb up loose dirt and rock that almost killed me to get into the location. It was all worth it. 4th missile base of the year. Though this was smaller than the Atlas and Titan bases, it was just as exciting. Each of the three missile bays held 4 Nike missiles(of either the "Ajax" or "Hercules" types), whereas the Atlas bases and Titan base each had one missile per silo/launch bay.

Abandoned View by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Panorama of an abandoned Nike Missile Base. by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Barracks Building by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Bars by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Cement Maze by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Gutted Cement Ruins by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Metal Desk by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Roofless by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Skeleton Bus by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Steel Innards by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Inside a Nike by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Nike Launch Bay by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr

Nike Selfie by Daniel McAdams, on Flickr




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http://unchartedsights.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr....tos/danielmcadams/
Aran 


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Re: California Missile Dreaming
< Reply # 1 on 6/16/2015 4:16 AM >
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Sweet location! Where you able to get into any subterranean areas of the base?

Also, I presume that the launch bay was where the missiles were kept, or were the kept in a silo?



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"Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there.

UnchartedSights 


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Re: California Missile Dreaming
< Reply # 2 on 6/16/2015 4:29 AM >
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Posted by Aran
Sweet location! Where you able to get into any subterranean areas of the base?

Also, I presume that the launch bay was where the missiles were kept, or were the kept in a silo?


I was able to get into two of the missile bays which are underground. They had a couple small side rooms that weren't photogenic at all. Lol. The missile were kept inside the bays. Nikes were too small to be kept in silos.




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http://unchartedsights.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr....tos/danielmcadams/
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Re: California Missile Dreaming
< Reply # 3 on 6/18/2015 10:51 PM >
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Awesome. Great find and pictures. Any clue when it was decommissioned?




UnchartedSights 


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Re: California Missile Dreaming
< Reply # 4 on 6/20/2015 6:17 AM >
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Awesome. Great find and pictures. Any clue when it was decommissioned?


This base came online for full time duty on August 26, 1956 and was decommissioned in 1974.




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