Tekoi Missile Test Range Exploration and an intro

[cupowar]

First off, this is my first post and I haven't introduced myself in the introductions forum so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone.

Hello everyone, great site you guys have with lots of info and pictures. I'm Chris from Provo and I stumbled onto this site
while googling places to explore in Utah. Anyway, a couple of weekends ago I went out to the Tekoi missile test range out in Utah's
west desert (about 10 miles north of Dugway Proving Grounds). In all my internet searching I never came across this place and
found out about it from my wife's co-worker.

The test range was apparently abandoned in the late 80s and is still relatively intact. The pictures will speak for themselves, but when
the site was abandoned, they (ATK I believe) left a lot intact. There is a gate with a small guard shack that marks the entrance, but no
lock on the gate or any no trespassing signs.

There are about a dozen above ground buildings, and 5 or 6 bunkers. Everything was accessible except the guard shack - which still had name tags
hanging on a bulletin board and locks on a row of lockers. I spent about 3 hours exploring and while I saw the whole complex, I'd still like to go back
and do some more detailed exploring.











97 more photos here: Tekoi Pics

[Derek]

Welcome! Great stuff and thanks for sharing.

[ExpUt]

Great pics, there is some info, links and pics of Tekoi here:

http://www.expeditionutah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1033

Hope its useful to you & welcome to MU!

[ryan162]

wow thats pretty nuts. seems almost too intact, i mean the tables arnt even dusty.

[Skylinerider]

Interesting there is no lock on it, when I was out there last November, there was a brand new lock on the chain.

[cupowar]

Interesting there is no lock on it, when I was out there last November, there was a brand new lock on the chain.

In the first picture in my original post you can see a lock that is locked on the chain link of the gate itself. Someone had to have unlocked it and put it there.
If it isn't locked and there aren't any no trespassing signs it's fair game...

[KDT1970]

Justfor fun did u try any of the phones or electricity to see if its working.
Keep looking maybe u'll find an underground facility.
I wanna go there now.

[Skylinerider]

This is the lock that was there, you can see the other lock on the chain link. Yup, if it was open like that when I went I would have wandered in too.

[cupowar]

Justfor fun did u try any of the phones or electricity to see if its working.
Keep looking maybe u'll find an underground facility.
I wanna go there now.

There was no power in any of the buildings or bunkers. It's definitely worth checking out, I'd love to go back and do a more in depth search of the place myself.

[cupowar]

This is the lock that was there, you can see the other lock on the chain link. Yup, if it was open like that when I went I would have wandered in too.

You know what else, if you look closely at your picture there aren't any bullet hole in the glass of the guard shack. When I was there all the windows were full of bullet holes.
It's a shame what people will do sometimes.

[tunnel rat]

Just be carefull if you go out there again the indians out there dont care for people on the reservation without them knowing.