An hour's drive from Anchorage is a Chilly Warfare relic buried within the woods. It's a helpful pilgrimage because it lays naked the primal nature of struggle. Lined in graffiti and riddled with bullet holes, it stands as a monument to a side of struggle we can not deny: that after we wage struggle, be it scorching or chilly, all of us lose. And even the mightiest concrete-clad nuclear bunker, although bolstered to outlive nuclear blasts, can not stand up to the onslaught of time and generations of keggers and drunken goal follow.
Observe indicators to S. Knik Goose Bay Street out of Wasilla or put 16000 S Knik Goose Bay Rd, Wasilla, AK 99654 into your GPS. In the event you would not have a 4×4 or off-road appropriate car, park on the airstrip on the finish of S. Knik Goose Bay Street and backtrack 500 ft to Cameo Rd. An extra quarter mile down this street you'll encounter your first bunker. Observe this street additional for different bunkers of varied sizes in numerous phases of disrepair.
Development on eight of those websites started in 1958, this Knik Arm web site being the final operational one, lastly deserted in 1979. The radar station and barracks are gone, however the launching pads are nonetheless seen, as are the iron tracks the missiles adopted out of the bunkers. This missile station stood at excessive alert for months throughout the Cuban Missile Disaster, its rockets assembled and educated on the sky. Troopers of C Battery, 1st Battalion, forty third Air Protection Artillery, have been on excessive alert.
Come geared up to shoot your individual post-apocalyptic zombie film, you'll not discover a higher setting. Put on sturdy boots, as that is an lively half spot, with building particles blended with damaged bottles. The paths in between are like several nature path. From the airport to the deserted web site is about 2 miles spherical journey, however it may be pushed with a four-wheel-drive car.
