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 UEinthe253
 |  | Military Base in Port Townsend?
< on 7/8/2009 5:15 PM >
|  | | | Not sure but I've heard rumors. Anyone know anything about it?
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Noah Vale
    
Location: Portland, Or
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| |  |  | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 1 on 7/8/2009 7:35 PM >
|  | | | 20 seconds on maps.google reveals fort worden SP. Wikipedia states the abandoned bunkers are open to the public. Dude did you even look?!
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jbtxk
Location: pnw
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 2 on 7/9/2009 12:16 PM >
| | | | there's a pretty badass swingset there but you have to hop a picket fence, so clearly not suitable for amateurs
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theseeker
Location: Washington
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 3 on 7/21/2009 8:32 AM >
| | | | Even with it's public status, it might be worth checking out. Military bases are ALWAYS cool.
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jbtxk
Location: pnw
Gender: Male
there's always another way
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 4 on 7/23/2009 10:47 AM >
| | | | it actually is pretty cool. i don't know about warden, but fort casey on whidbey island is really awesome if everything's open. sometimes (i have no idea when/why) they lock big steel doors that close off all the deep-inside tunnels and everything. but when they're open, you can play some badass games of hide-and-seek or just have fun running around and climbing up weird little passages that were probably used to move supplies up and down into the lower areas. it's a blast.
when the doors are closed, it's interesting to look at but gets boring fast. bare concrete everywhere, no old military stuff to look at with the exception of a HUGE cannon at fort casey (i don't think warden still has one).
it's cool to look at how big it is and then go down to the shore and look behind you... you can barely see anything. the entire place would be all but invisible to any ship trying to pass through. and with three forts in a triangle i'd bet they wouldn't get real far. too bad we had to go and nuke japan or maybe they'd have seen some action!
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TomUE
Location: Mukilteo WA.
Gender: Male
| |  |  | | | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 5 on 7/28/2009 5:44 AM >
| | | | I've hiked all over fort warden. Its pretty interesting. They are all bare concrete structures however. Remember to bring a flashlight the bunkers are dark. There are a few interesting buildings there. A zeppelin hanger that I believe has been converted to an events center.
-Tom
[last edit 7/28/2009 5:44 AM by TomUE - edited 1 times]
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UEinthe253
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 6 on 7/31/2009 2:31 PM >
| | | | @ Noah Vale: I already knew it was there, I guess I should have made it more clear that I was asking if others had been there and if they thought that it was worth checking out any further.
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chevy guy
Location: Auburn, WA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 7 on 7/31/2009 8:53 PM >
| | | | there is another fort on whidbey, but i cant remember the name, fort ebey i think? it has some interesting spots, i need to go back with a flashlight.
its part of a camp ground, not too big, but kinda fun none the less!
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jbtxk
Location: pnw
Gender: Male
there's always another way
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 8 on 8/1/2009 1:08 PM >
| | | | Posted by chevy guy
there is another fort on whidbey, but i cant remember the name...
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fort casey. and fort flagler is on marrowstone island... never been there though.
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Mogwai1313
Location: Idaho
Gender: Male
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 9 on 8/4/2009 9:54 PM >
| | | | I have been to one old military base near Port Townsend/Port Angeles. It was all open to the public and it also had a very cool little museum of all of the stuff they found when they remodeled the place. There were fallout shelters but they were closed to the public.
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TomUE
Location: Mukilteo WA.
Gender: Male
| | | | | | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 10 on 8/6/2009 7:16 PM >
| | | | Actually now that I think about it I have distant memories of there being some off limits un maintained bunkers too they may have been demolished by now as my memories are some ten years old.. I remember one was quite flooded. It would be a great place for airsoft if it weren't for all the other people milling around. I would recommend it, it really is pretty cool. They do maintain them so none of the maintained bunkers are flooded or smell too much like urine. Maybe bring a map of the area.. Its easy to become disoriented; the bunkers are all spread out over a large area.
-Tom
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chevy guy
Location: Auburn, WA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 11 on 8/8/2009 10:59 PM >
| | | | there is also a really cool one on goat island that i have been to when i was younger
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OttoL
Location: Pacific Northwest
Gender: Male
Renob
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 12 on 10/11/2009 10:03 PM >
| | | | If you are looking for information on Coast Defense and Harbor Defense forts and military installations you could go to the CDSG Website
You will find a treasure trove of information, maps, drawings/blueprints, pictures and history of all the Puget Sound forts, as well as practically all other forts and defenses around the US.
Most of the Puget Sound forts are actually parks now, and you can explore the tunnels, bunkers and fortifications.
Here are some examples from Ft. Stevens, Oregon.
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teenonator
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 13 on 3/18/2010 7:22 PM >
| | | | I couldn't believe it when I saw this Port Townsend "rumor".
Here's the rundown on some forts around Puget Sound:
They all date to around the Spanish American War, and most have the remains of 12-inch, 8-inch, or 6-inch rifle, 8-inch mortar, or 3-inch quick-firing gun batteries. They all usually have ammunition bunkers, telephone exchange bunkers, and searchlight & rangefinder emplacements, and most are state or county parks
Fort Casey, near Coupeville, Whidbey Island, was the first of the Coastal Defense forts to be developed as a State Park & have a bunch of restoration work done in the early 1970's. Part of it is run by Seattle Pacific University.
Fort Worden, Pt Townsend, seen in "Officer & A Gentleman", was like a facility for troubled kids when we first explored it in the 1960's. The hangar is not for Zeppelins, but was for blimps(B-limp- basically a long balloon, as opposed to zeppelins or dirigibles, which had rigid interior frameworks), used by the US Navy for anti-submarine duties. This was the largest of the NW forts, and until the mid 70's had some great exploring spots, when the last surplus gear stored in the bunkers was removed.
Fort Flagler is just SE of Pt Townsend, on Marrowstone Island, which is adjacent to Indian Island, and has some bunkers, but really ain't much.
Camp Hayden(Striped Peak) is west of Pt Angeles near Joyce.
Goat Island, which is just SW of La Conner, has a few small bunkers. The last guy stationed there left in the 1950's, and said he was "going back to God's country, Texas". His kids commuted to school in La Conner by boat.
Fort Ward is on the south end of Bainbridge Island, and it's biggest bunkers (known as Battery Frances Nash) are not in the State Park but are SW of where Ft Ward Hill starts down to the beach. SE of Frances Nash was a reservoir, which is now filled, and a radio mast, which in the 70's was a great climb, but last I heard the ladder had been cut off. North of the radio mast is the remains of a small airfield. Across Rich Passage from Ft Ward there are some small bunkers around Manchester.
Ft Lawton in Seattle was the administrative hq for all these forts. There's still some good exploring, but the city & US Army have been pulling down the buildings. Just inside the north gate of the fort is a small cemetery, and among the graves are two of prisoners-of-war. One, a German, killed himself "rather than return to Germany", and the other, an Italian, was killed in riots between the POWs and their guards.
Ft Canby is near Ilwaco, at the mouth of the Columbia River, and Ft Columbia is east of there, at Chinook, and sometimes the hostel there is open. Across from Ilwaco, Astoria, Or. used to offer some great urban exploring back in the late 60's to early 80's, especially for fans of "Goonies" and "Lost Boys", both of which were shot there.
Old Ft Steilacoom, which is west of Ft Lewis, is the home of the still-active Western State Hospital, which makes Northwestern State Hospital look like a holiday camp. Check out the graveyard, which only has numbers on most of the tiny grave markers.
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aaronni
Location: South Puget Sound
| | Re: Military Base in Port Townsend?
<Reply # 14 on 3/19/2010 2:57 AM >
| | | | Good run down on the forts teenonator, the Puget Sound and Columbia River mouth were extremely important strategic points during the wartime periods. The Command Bunker tour at Stevens is incredibly interesting and well worth the $4 or $5 to take.
Fort Stevens.
Powder Hoist
Command Hall
And it's true about Ft Lawton, they've been slowing pulling down all the more interesting buildings on the grounds. Kind of sad...
"War Room"
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