Random cool things in North Dakota...

[Plantains]

So Beek posted that super tall tower the other day, and I was flying around and saw this little blip of "Buildings" on my sectional chart. The government puts out all sorts of weirdo parameters that need to be met to be labeled as one thing and not the other so it got me curious.

Here it is on my sectional: attached or linky... (dunno if it'll have it loaded properly)

http://skyvector.com/?ll=48.67313580845316,-98.02401717512211&chart=4&zoom=2&plan=A.K3.2C8:G.48.735625846392686,-98.01304373708855:G.48.67466947090981,-97.93408008593275:G.48.70208964971313,-97.84501297004749:G.48.74917253531811,-97.87590102569906

Here it is on google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.724566,-97.89956&num=1&t=h&sll=47.925257,-97.032855&sspn=0.119701,0.256119&gl=us&ie=UTF8&ll=48.724618,-97.902732&spn=0.008366,0.022724&z=16

Turns out its part of NORAD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalier_Air_Force_Station

We need a way to embed such images from google...

[pmp6nl]

Cool.  I had never heard of this Air Force Station.

[Plantains]

Yes. It seems to be pretty low profile. Considering its only marked on an aviation sectional as "buildings"... it was very unique/interesting indeed.

[pmp6nl]

I wonder how many other things like this are across ND.  Anyone ever see a missile silo?

[Meest]

I wonder how many other things like this are across ND.  Anyone ever see a missile silo?

Yep. they're all around up there. the Spirit missile silo's. Look at the safeguard wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguard_Program

they have all the Geo locations for you to look up

[Sal Atticum]

We saw a whole bunch of them while driving around looking for places to put seismic stations a few years ago.  Supposedly used to be was if you had to visit one (government contract or something), they would only tell you to go to a rough location and "drive around until we see you."

[gh]

I wonder how many other things like this are across ND.  Anyone ever see a missile silo?

I've seen a missle silo up by Langdon, ND. It's at the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 66.

[Sal Atticum]

Fargo is home to the largest wooden baseball bat in the world!

http://www.fargomoorhead.org/blog/?p=221