Underground bomb / fallout shelter / bunker at the abandoned Mount Laguna Air Force Station

This is a Cold War relic. It was awesome being able to explore it for the first time. Vandals and scavengers haven't done too much damage to this particular spot - yet. If you go, this is at the upper base - not too far from the radar tower.

Mount Laguna Air Force Station is located atop Mount Laguna, with a steep drop into the Anza Borrego desert. It was a DEW (Distant Early Warning) site, watching for incoming missiles, and housed about 170 people until it was downsized in 1981. Now it is a multi-use satellite and radar communications site, operated primarily by the FAA, out of Los Angeles Center.

Beginning in 1952, the Mt. Laguna Air Force Station was home to the 751st Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) Squadron, later the 751st Radar Squadron, part of the Air Defense Command.

Check out my still photos of this place: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/sets/72157605764602337/

A Cold War relic, Mount Laguna Air Force Station is located atop Mount Laguna, with a steep drop into the Anza Borrego desert. It was a DEW (Distant Early Warning) site, watching for incoming missiles, and housed about 170 people until it was downsized in 1981. Now it is a multi-use satellite and radar communications site, operated primarily by the FAA, out of Los Angeles Center.

Beginning in 1952, the Mt. Laguna Air Force Station was home to the 751st Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) Squadron, later the 751st Radar Squadron, part of the Air Defense Command.

Check out my still photos of this place: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/sets/72157605764602337/

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/?q=node/1737

As of the end of summer 2011, all abandoned buildings here have been torn down. :-(

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/?q=node/1737

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• fallout
• shelter
• bomb
• underground
• bunker
• mount
• laguna
• air
• force
• station
• abandoned
• military
• cold
• war
• nuclear
• urban
• exploration
• california
• san
• diego
• USAF
• DEW
• 751st
• AC&W

[REmegafan]

They know how things worked

[slworking2]

@REmegafan Definitely.

[REmegafan]

The switches are old,so is everything else,its not crappy stuff,just old,my grandma was around in the cold war,so was my grampa

[slworking2]

@REmegafan True. A lot of things were better built back in the day.

[LeksMishka]

LOL, Everyone has a gay accent.

[slworking2]

@LeksMishka It's the echoing of the sound inside this underground tunnel - I assure you!

[TheNinjabassist]

they sealed the zombies down there 0.0

[slworking2]

@SilentRevolver25 Ah. This one seems well-built, though. But I can understand why these places often get filled-in once abandoned.

[a10fjet]

Lol you sound like the imprisoned serial killer on reno 911

[EisenKreig]

If I ever found something like that, I am sure that I would be freaking out, thinking what if the hatch closed on me? Paranoia is a bitch.

[Sismiques]

@TheNinjabassist

Or somone connected their drug tunnel to that.

[GibsonGuitarI95]

Thats coool i want one

[LeksMishka]

@novaturbkkk My son posted that. He has since been removed from his Internet Use.

[novaturbkkk]

@LeksMishka AMERICAN ACCENT LOL

[GavinJLang]

Watch out for the Kiwi Monster.... lol

[LeksMishka]

@slworking2 WHat in the world!? I didn;t post that... My son must have my comuter. Again. I'm terribly sorry, Sir.