Site Improvements Enhance Access to Cold War Resources

Project at a Glance: Construct amenities to improve visitor access to Delta flight sites

Start Date: February 2016
Completion: October 2018
Contractor(s): Denver Service Center, HDR, and Dean Kurtz Construction
Project Cost: $1,663,391
 
Results: When constructed for the US Air Force in the early 1960s, the last thing designers wanted at active missile facilities was visitors. Since the park began public tours in 2004, the lack of adequate parking had limited access to the sites by visitors and led to damage at both sites. Both Delta facility sites are situated on unpaved county roads and initially had no parking, restrooms, pavements, interpretation or visitor use facilities. The scope of this project was to design and construct at each historic location a new parking lot for cars and buses, comfort station and outdoor interpretive shelter/overlook along with new accessible walks, a limited number of waysides and benches, and new walkways to the historic resources. The completed facilities will aid and improve the visitor experience and better protect the primary historic resources the park preserves.