L - Mount Gleason, 6.8 W Mill Creek Forest Station ((P) Los Angeles County prison camp)
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps ]

C - Mt. Disappointment ((P) radio relay site)
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps ]

L - Barley Flats. 4 N Amgeles Crest Hwy ((P)LA County Sheriff Air Station)
[{Devine, B} Oct 2009, LA 9L and A burned down in the Angeles National Forest Station fire. I am told only one building was saved. ]
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps ]
[(Murdock, S) GPS=34-16-42 118-04-32 ]

L - 1201 Potrero Rd. ((P) LA County parks workyard)
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps ]
[(Murdock, S) GPS=34-02-37 118-03-32 ]
[{Kamienski, R} (via Dean.Willoughby@usarc-emh2.army.mil Feb 2001) I explored the El Monte launcher area. Magazine elevator pit has water up to the brim. Otherwise, it could be restored with a lot of effort. It is in a city construction yard next to a park. A good location for a war museum. ]

A - ((P) USAR Center)

L - Site Dr, off Cenntral Ave, N of Brea Blvd ((O) Shell Oil Company; oil field)
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps ]
[{Kamienski, R} image of launcher area from Redstone WWW site ]]
annotated image 72 K bytes, by Rick
[{Kamienski, R} (via Dean.Willoughby@usarc-emh2.army.mil Feb 2001) The launcher area is now a flat dirt area. Magazines completely removed. They worked on this for about 3 months. I got a few low resolution pictures if your interested. ]

L - SW Spring & Lakewood ((I) CAArNG center)
[{Hiscox, George} September 2007 - Long after runway 30 was built, the old missile battery was used by the City of Long Beach for an EOC until almost 1980. The launch doors were covered over with mounds of asphalt covered dirt, but the facility remained accessible from a small blockhouse leading to a long steep stairway. There was a second point of egress via a vertical ladder to a hatch. I am a retired police sergeant from Long Beach PD and attended many training sessions in that old facility during the late 60's and 70's. Our Air Support (helicopter) Unit was also located there and was serviced by an above ground hanger built on the property. In 1976, Long Beach ... city manager by the name of John Dever ... sold off the land to a developer who built a business park on the property and we lost a really great EOC facility, complete with underground diesel storage, huge generator, kitchen and living facilities. ]
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps (obliterated) removed for construction of runway 30 [?? see above)] ]

Fun-n-games - glimpse of site in TV show ADAM-12

[{Janesic, J} (Jan 2008) Old picture of Battery Leary 37 KB) the green tinted buildings are from the Nike period. The building in the foreground is the Maintenance and Service Building. In the background is the former HIPAR Generator Building. The same picture shows the steel structure of the Target Ranging Radar to the left of the M&S building. Between the M&S building and the Generator Building and on top of the original battery parapet is the pad for the MTR.

L - between Hawthorne & Palos Verdes; Dr. ((I)City of Rancho Palos Verdes; city hall/admin
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps

L - 30940 Crenshaw Blvd ((P) City of Torrance; Torrance Airport/ Civil Air Patrol Torrance Nike Site
[{Larish, J} MsrMaps Image

L - 9014 Pershing Dr ((P) Los Andeles Airport Authority

A - ((P) Jep Pets)

L - *Shared launch/admin facility with LA-70
[(Anderson, T} ... launcher area for LA70 and LA73 was destroyed/obliterated in the early 1990's when Westchester Parkway was constructed. The administration area is currently Jets Pets. The flat roofed buildings are painted white and blue, but on some missed spots you can see the original green. A double insignia sign sits on the side of the area. It is badly weathered but you can make out" AAA" and "CAARNG" as well as the California bear. These cone shaped signs are all that remains untouched and they are surrounded by barb wire (thank God). It sucks to see how quickly LA can swallow up such history. ]

L - ((P) ITT Gilfillon; radar test site
[(Vadnais, E) Mar 2009 - reasonable newspaper article
[(Kramer, C) Aug 2007 - I work for the company [ITT] that runs what was once LA-94. We now call it Loop Canyon Test Facility.
[(Lagerstrom, S) Dec 2004 picture The launch area is fenced in, with a "No Trespassing" sign, but seen from the next hill, it seems largely intact, with three buildings standing. At the northern end of the northernmost (of 3) launch pad a 40-foot tower (with a prominent crane for hoisting antennas into place) has been added. Currently bears a planar-array antenna that looks a lot like the SPS-48 that ITT Gilfillan makes for the Navy and others (e.g. Nimitz-class carriers). http://gilfillan.itt.com/sps48.htm (I have been involved with them myself in the Swedish Air Force) Two 40-foot containers on the concrete pad presumably houses the rest of the radar eqp. Almost everything is painted tan. ]
[(Murdock, S) GPS=34-20-51 118-24-32 ]
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A - ((P) LA County Fire Department

L - 15990 Victory Blvd ((I) CAANG; 261st Combat Communications Squadron) SMMC Stragic Plan
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps
[{A.G.} Dec 2009 - N 34 11.100 W 118 28.996 ; the L& A site is largely intact and is used by the California Air National Guard. A section of the launch area is used by the Army National Guard.

L - Lang Station, CA 14 ((P) private owner; construction company
[(Vadnais, E) Mar 2009 - reasonable newspaper article
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps

L - 5 N Crow Canyon Rd, Bollinger Canyon Rd ((I) Traccor Aerospace/ Calif. Dept. of Forestry/ Las Tranpas Regional Park
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image ]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

L - SE shore of lake ((unk) East Bay Regionnal Park District; Lake Chabot Park/ Dept of Public Safety service yard 510-881-1833) [go up hill on road marked "17930 Lake Chabot Rd", magazine elevator doors welded shut, buildings being maintained and used by above agencies]
[{Larish, J} MsrMaps Image
[(Murdock, S) GPS=37-43-16 122-05-56 ]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

L - N Red Hill ((O) Coyote Hills Regional Park
[(Page, T ) (August 2008) Maybe the map seen at http://ebparks.org/files/EBRPD_files/brochure/coyote.pdf is the final word? "Nike Trail" is presumed to skirt the former launch area on its south side. That would put the SF-37L location right around 37°33'27.90"N, 122° 5'39.92"W.]
[(Olson, Tom ) (August 2008) [after extensive dialogs with Thomas Page; Doyle Piland; Murdock, Scott; Mark Morgan; Mark Berhow; Sam Stokes; Ron Plante; Michael Binder] ... I have however been able to find conclusive proof of the exact location of the launcher site using archived USGS Topo maps. The launcher are is located to the north as stated by Thomas and others. It appears that the launchers where on top of the hills. Attached are images of the 1968 Newark 7.5 minute Quad. The site appears on the 1959, 1968, and 1973 as a military reservation. The military designation disappears in 1980. The maps can be found at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/histopo/# ]
[ A non-quote from Anonymous] - Apparently the launcher was at the top of the northernmost hill in the park, which is just south of the Alameda County Flood Control Channel. This is called Red Hill. There is a Coyote Hills Regional Park visitor center which has information about the Nike Trail, which may lead to the now buried launch site at the top of Red Hill.
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page
[(Tyler, T) (September 2002) LAUNCH AREA - Approx. 37-33.54N / 122-05.79W Obliterated. Launch site buildings had been bulldozed, dumped into the magazines, magazines sealed shut, soiled over & the whole area re-graded in the early 1970s to make it look like a natural area again, and they did a very thorough job - the only thing I saw was an area slightly more level than the surrounding area, so I'm not 100% sure exactly where the magazines were on this grassy hill, half a mile WNW of the Admin site. The "Nike Trail" walk goes around it, Red Hawk Trail goes up the hill that 37L apparently was on. ]

A - ((I) Coyote Hills Regional Park visitors center 510-795-9385
[(Tyler, T) (September 2002) ADMIN AREA - 37-33.2N / 122-05.45W Spoke with Supervisory Naturalist Paul Ferreira, who has been with the East Bay Regional Park District ( www.ebparks.org ) since 1974. Two former Barracks buildings, flagpole & two sets of concrete steps (Admin site had multiple up-grades) are all that remain of admin area. Barracks are now mostly a nice visitor center, plus gift store & park offices. Other bldgs in Admin area had trenches dug behind them, then the structures bulldozed into the trenches, and covered over. Area is now a nice, contoured grassy area with benches, BBQ grills & picnic tables. Prior to being obtained by the park in the 1970s, the Admin area buildings were used by the Stanford Research Institute for marine mammal sonar research, with dolphins, etc. being stored on site in the barracks & other buildings converted into labs/storage. ]

L - Milagra Ridge, off Sharp Park Rd ((P) Golden Gate NRA; Milagra Ridge
[{Bruni, Frank} (Oct 2011) Well, I found the location and it is over grown with trees, brush and the like. It is off of Sharp Park Drive and is now called Gypsy Road. The original roads to the and through this side are still in place and may or not take you to the launchers, IF they are still in place. All of the original buildings located on the site appear to be gone and I can see some remains of foundations.
- I went back into Google Earth and took another look at the area. This time I wound up where I should have been the first time out. Save for a few concrete pads here and there, and the six inch gun emplacement, there is nothing left of SF 51L. The original catonment area for the site is also gone and has been replaced by what looks to be a very nice high end group of homes. The area is now known as Milagra Ridge County Park. ]
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image Not much left. Exact launcher positions unknown.]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

L - 500 Skyline Blve ((P) Golden Gate NRA; parking lot, (www go to "Swords to Plowshares")
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image ]
[(Murdock, S) GPS=37-42-54 122-30-07 ]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

A - 500 Skyline Blve ((I) Golden Gate NRA; Ocean District Headquarters, Environmental Science Center/ Air Quality Monitoring Center
*NOTE: SF-59L located near Battery Davis (2x16")

L - Bunker Rd ((I) Golden Gate NRA; Calif. Marine Mammal Center)
[{Morgan, M} Tanks holding assorted seals and the like are built on top of the pads; one of the access doors is locked open and I noted that the B/2/51st artwork and motto are still on the lower door (07 May 89).]
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image ]
[(Murdock, S) GPS=37-49-37 122-31-39 ]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

C - Wolf Ridge, Fort Cronkhite ((P) Golden Gate NRA; abandoned)
[{Page, T} Jan 2008? Images of SF-88C decaying and falling apart :-(( by John Martini
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image ]
[{Morgan, M} Control can be reached by a trail; from down below it looks like a couple of buildings and radar supports are still intact.]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

L - Adjacent to Battery Alexander (I) Golden Gate NRA; restored site
Off-site text & photos
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image ]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page N 37.82698°, W 122.52753°,

L - Battery Caulfield Rd. ((P) Golden Gate NRA (National Recreation Area))
[{Worrell, Bill} (July 12, 2011) Ed-this is an aerial view. Two buildings, and old Ajax launch area below and right.
[{Morgan, M} the pads abandoned and used for open air storage. The adjacent buildings are used by an EOD unit. An Ajax site featured in Nike promotional photos, it closed in 1963 (07 May 89). ]
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Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

(T-89) Temporary site elsewhere on reservation
LOC: unknown
CUR: National Park Service Golden Gate NRA

Additionally, as SF-90H, the AFS was headquarters for the 40th Artillery Brigade until June 1971, and the 13th ADA Group from July 1971 to August 1974. Equipment included an AN/TSQ-51 Missile Mentor { August 2007 - probably never had a Missile Master} (replacing the earlier AN/FSG-1 Missile Master installation at the AADCP) and radars FPS-7C (SLBM detection, 14th Missile Warning Squadron, Det 3) (07 May 89). ]
[{Page, T) Oh, please list the radars correctly! SLBM radar: AN/FSS-7 (formerly an AN/FPS-26 AC&W Height-finder radar) AC&W Search radar: AN/FPS-7C (later AN/FPS-107V2) AC&W Height-finder radar: AN/FPS-90. added June 2007, It should also be noted that Mill Valley AFS never hosted a Missile Master facility. ]
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image, photo image from radomes.org/museum ]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

C - Mount Caroline Livermore, Angel Island ((P) abandoned/ Angel Island State Park)
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[{Poskanzer, Jef}, detailed web page, News Article May 2002 "The state of California is spending nearly $300,000 to put the top back on Angel Island. What we're talking about is the 15 feet or so that was sheared from the top of Mount Livermore back in the 1960s to make room for a Nike missile site. The missile site is gone -- it vanished long before the Cold War died -- but it did leave behind a road-scarred flat top of dirt stretching about three- quarters of a football field. ..."
as of August 2002 ... from the perimeter road I could see various concrete pads up there, so it looks like the park folks kept their promise to preserve the pads. ]

L - Fort McDowell, Angel Island ((I) closed/ Angel Island State Park)
[{Poskanzer, Jef}, - August 2002 - The fence is 95% gone, you can just walk right in. Last time I was there, 20 years prior, I had to climb over it. Anyway, I got some great photos: detailed web page ]

L - end of Smith Ranch Rd ((P) Marin County waste treatment plant
[{Ricks, D} July 13, 2010 - [ ... link to Jeff's page below] She also showed me this July 1st article that says the site will probably be [filled and] covered by dirt [by Sept 2010] - http://www.marinij.com/ci_15422753. The new water storage tank is a huge, round, white, above-ground structure at the foot of the north end of the hill.
[{Eric} May 2008 http://www.marinij.com/ci_8609303 "The plan is to put the excavated material in the vaults and just cap them," said Eric McGuire, the water district's environmental services coordinator
[{Anton, K} Launch "pits" used for reservoirs for the waste treatment plant]
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image Site sits on top of a small hill next to McInnis Park. To the right of his picture is the sewage treatment plant that uses two of the three magazines for (clean) water storage. The buildings in the center belong to the site. Very intact and converted for some other use.]
Jef Poskanzer's detailed web page

A - ((I) Youth guidance center)

L - 2 S Elmira, Hay & Lewis ((I) private owner)
[{Raichle, B} expensive house next to launchers
[(Murdock, S) GPS 38-19-05, 121-53-39,
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image ]

L - Lambie Rd & Rithell Ln ((O) agricultural)
[{Raichle, B} ?fertilizer plant?
[{Snowberg, P} MsrMaps Image no sign of site, a few small buildings to the north are oriented in the same 45 degree off North orientation as T-10L & T-86L.]

L - 2.5 S Travis AFB, Explosives Technology Rd ((P) Explosives Technology; one elevator operational)
OEA, Inc bought the site, 2 of the 3 magazines assemble explosive charges for air-bags, fighter ejector seats]
[(Murdock, S) GPS 38-12-14, 121-56-05 (later Potrero Hills Stor Anx, USAF)
[{Snowberg, P} TerraServer Image

L - N Fairfield, Air Base Parkway ((I) Solano County Detention Center /Solano County Animal Shelter / Suisun Unified School)
[{Raichle, B} bus parking lot, Nike Administrative Area buildings intact, poor repair]
[{Snowberg, P} TerraServer Image ]

L - Osborne Ln & Deerfield ((P) Copper Ridge Farm; private owner)
[{Make, B} converted for horse farm use and up for sale. Most buildings still there, launch magazines filled. Horses occupy the Assembly building : ) also this is the only site in CT that I have seen a bunker in. At first I thought it was a farm add-on, but it poured 2 foot thick walls and a L-turned doorway, with steel door gave it away. I wish I had plans for it or could have gotten inside : )]
[{Murdock, S} GPS=41-21-02 73-02-57 MsrMaps ]

L - Bull Hill Ln ((P) Town of West Haven Park & Rec Dept; Nike Site Park
[{Murdock, S}GPS=41-16-19, 72-58-45, MsrMaps]

L - Rock Rd near Quirk ((O) industrial park)
[{Murdock, S}GPS= 41-14-23 73-00-16, MsrMaps]

L - Old Dam Rd, off Pine Creek (South Pine Creek Park)
[{Murdock, S} GPS=41-07-29 73-15-49 MsrMaps ]

A - [{Miner, M} The motivation for the article is that the housing area which after the army used it during the NIKE days, the Navy bought and military personal from various services, mostly recruiters have been living there since the late 1980s. The Navy is selling it and the town will close on the sale soon. The houses will be sold for low cost housing. ]

L - 85 North Ave (Firefighter training center)
School Expansion
[{Ojarovsky, J} As of 11/99, construction crews were in the process of demolishing the entire above ground buildings to make room for the expansion of the public Staples High School. ]
[{Murdock, S} GPS=41-09-34 73-19-52 MsrMaps ]

L -
[{Murdock, S} GPS=41-18-28 73-10-21 MsrMaps ]

Housing -
[{Murdock, S} GPS=41-19-30 73-10-56 MsrMaps ]

L - Phelps Rd (USAR Center)
[(Murdock, S) GPS 41-53-27, 72-36-13, MsrMaps ]

C - 110 Garden Grove Rd (Town of Manchester, Recreation Center)
of 110 Garden Grove & Hercules Drive, seems 41N 45' 06", 72W 32' 06". The top of the hill seems about 200 yards SE. (A nice place for radar, but I can't see anything in the image)

L - Line St (Hartford Electric Light Company)
of Line St. - E-W road at about 41N 44' 24", Hartford Electric yard seems to be about 41N 44' 19", 72W 30' 58"

[{McDonald, M} ... when I saw a sign for a daycare called Nike Tykes I drove up this residential street to find the Nike Site Recreation Area. ... I also believe we found the housing area - Faith Circle (Rainbow Condominiums) built in 1958. Located on the other end of Hercules Road - road closed long ago and blocked by a guardrail and fallen trees. ]
[{Purcell, A} Jan 2004 - ... my school (Loomis Chaffee in Windsor) has a riflery team that I am a part of. We shoot at a range operated by Metropolitan Shooters on the Nike housing site in Manchester. (Our range is a few buildings over from Nike Tykes). ]

L - Clark Hill Rd (abandoned)

[(Griswold, S) Jan 30, 2010 - Major overgrowth, but quite a few of the buildings, except for a metal structure on the north-east corner, are still standing. A lot of vandal damage (graffiti, yes, but some walls smashed out, around pipes, and to make access to other sections.) Found an open well head behind the main water supply building (central-northern section) behind the main water tank. A 2-foot Diameter brick lined hole.. couldn't see too far, 2 inches of ice on top of the water, only 4 inches from top edge. (manhole ring sitting off to side, cover location unknown). Also, sounds like water flowing into the waste treatment unit south of the building in the south-west corner, source unknown. - posting photos to a album on Facebook, of the recent HA-48 tour, under the folder "Cold-War Ghost Town', taken in winter (today 01-30-2010) ]
[{Polmon, D} (Feb 2003) ... most, if not all, of the buildings of HA-48 are still there! They are overgrown to the point of almost not being able to access them, which probably helps in their continued existence.

L -Hyde Rd off Scott Swamp (Stanley Works, Magic Door Division)

A - [{Allen, Ron} (January 2006)There were two administrative areas, one was for HHB 1st Msl. Bn, 51st arty. It consisted of a barracks, shop building and an administrative building with various offices.

L - Hilltop Dr (RWR Associates/Tower View Condominiums)