Is there no camping allowed on the old base then?
The name Crystal Geyser sounds like it would be a popular place.
Looking on Google Earth it looks like there is someones house and a small orchard about 1.25 miles past eh geyser at the bend in the river. I did notice it is accessable from the base only (at least it seems so).
Darrell
I suppose you could camp at the base, I've never tried nor really thought too. There are a dozen sites so it would really depends on where you're thinking. The old housing are south of 70 for example would be a total non issue. I've camped at the Geyser a half dozen times now, visitors come to the geyser but we've been alone otherwise.
This coming weekend, the Emery County Historical Society is taking a tour of the missile base, meeting in Huntington and Ferron at 9AM, or Green River at 11:00AM, on Saturday, April 28.
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For $5/person/year to join, seems like a great deal (I've been a member of the society for several years and they put on some great presentations or go on interesting outings each month of the year).
I'd be willing to go again to get more history of the area. I got so much footage and public domain photos from my research, I'm hoping to create a mini-documentary.
Does anyone know anyone in the Maryland area with a 1080p DSLR (preferably 4k, but 1080 will work)? I've actually tracked down two separate DoD 16mm reels of the 100th and 1st launches of the Athena missiles. Included in the footage is interior shots, operational shots, all of the gantry/cover/missile prep footage, launch footage, etc.
pretty much everything every one of us wants to see of this facility just sitting in the national archives. They said they will set the footage up and you are allowed a tripod and camera to film the footage on the projected screen (better than nothing, but a good low-light DSLR should do the trick) and we can have that footage available for everyone.
I just need to figure out how to get a camera to Maryland.... .
They won't digitize it for you, for a fee of course? I was helping a professor of mine do research on Okinawa way back in 2006 and the National Archives was willing to digitize some of the footage that he found. But maybe that was because he had a research grant?
do you have a map legend talking about the numbered locations on the map? going to head over there thursday afternoon and dropping some waypoints to make identifying locations a little easier on the ground.
The limit is 20MBI have a super res version, but not sure how big of a file I can upload