Last time I visited it, they had welded steel bars to the front of the main entrance. I'm pretty sure you could dig 2-3 feet under those bars and squeeze under the gate. Saw zaw would work but this specific silo is close to private property.
The missle silos themselves were mostly filled with water when I visited, made it a bit creepier. Just mind blowing such a massive facility could be under the ground.
It sounds like you may have stumbled across a disused Minuteman complex. Do you have any idea what it was? There were silos for Atlas F, Titan I, Titan II, and all of the Minuteman series. At peak deployment, there were 1,000 Minuteman silos. It was often remarked within the Boeing Company that they made more money on the ground part of the system than on the missiles.
I will correct myself, now that I have looked at your map. Maybe a Titan II silo? These have silo launch doors; Minuteman has a sliding cover. But I don't see any indications of the Titan II exhaust ducts, so maybe a Titan I silo? Strategic defense was a serious matter in the 50s and 60s. Maybe from a more adult time.
As far as I know since it had living quarters it's a titan 1. I think later they realized having to staff the silo was a liability from a trust standpoint and I believe titan 2 silos were remotely controlled.
In the page you linked it's almost almost a 1:1 of the black and white 3d cutaway labeled Underground Missile Silo Dead Media Archive
There always would have been a control capsule and maybe a standby crew. The later system deployments were able to operate more silo clusters from a single control capsule. The conclusive discrimination is whether there is evidence of an elevator for the missile (Titan I) or exhaust ducts to the surface from the silo bottom (Titan II). Wikipedia has fairly good entries on these systems and a listing of the bases and locations where they were deployed, so you could probably correlate your location with that information. Right outside Denver is pretty distinctive.
I envy you. That belongs on a bucket list.
Last time I visited it, they had welded steel bars to the front of the main entrance. I'm pretty sure you could dig 2-3 feet under those bars and squeeze under the gate. Saw zaw would work but this specific silo is close to private property.
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The missle silos themselves were mostly filled with water when I visited, made it a bit creepier. Just mind blowing such a massive facility could be under the ground.
And abandoned. Makes one realize the new stuff they must have makes these look point.
It sounds like you may have stumbled across a disused Minuteman complex. Do you have any idea what it was? There were silos for Atlas F, Titan I, Titan II, and all of the Minuteman series. At peak deployment, there were 1,000 Minuteman silos. It was often remarked within the Boeing Company that they made more money on the ground part of the system than on the missiles.
I will correct myself, now that I have looked at your map. Maybe a Titan II silo? These have silo launch doors; Minuteman has a sliding cover. But I don't see any indications of the Titan II exhaust ducts, so maybe a Titan I silo? Strategic defense was a serious matter in the 50s and 60s. Maybe from a more adult time.
As far as I know since it had living quarters it's a titan 1. I think later they realized having to staff the silo was a liability from a trust standpoint and I believe titan 2 silos were remotely controlled.
In the page you linked it's almost almost a 1:1 of the black and white 3d cutaway labeled Underground Missile Silo Dead Media Archive
There always would have been a control capsule and maybe a standby crew. The later system deployments were able to operate more silo clusters from a single control capsule. The conclusive discrimination is whether there is evidence of an elevator for the missile (Titan I) or exhaust ducts to the surface from the silo bottom (Titan II). Wikipedia has fairly good entries on these systems and a listing of the bases and locations where they were deployed, so you could probably correlate your location with that information. Right outside Denver is pretty distinctive.