Post your pics of abandoned military places

Here are the rules :

The place must be military related but it should be abandoned from the military. It can be anything built by the military in any country at any time in history : a road, a fort, a radar, a tunnel, a fortification , whatever...

Of course, you must have been there riding your bike !

Let's begin with the fort of Roche Lacroix in the French Alps.
It was built in the thirties as a part of the Maginot line to defend the alpine passes from an Italian invasion.

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

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

The Maginot Line was a complete failure against the Germans in 1940 but the Alpine Line was a great success against the Italians.


The fort seen from the access gravel road.


This cupola could be elavated to discover a 75mm gun.

I am near a machine gun cupola.




These were the buildings where the soldiers lived.




The Entrance. On the left, there is still this small room where you go alone...






The protection from the side.




On the other side of the valley, this is the Saint-Ours bunkers.


You can see it has known fire !





You can understand that it was easy to control the acces to the valley.




The road to leave the fort : "Check your brakes" !


Seen from the valley.


I hope you liked my pics.
OK, let's see your pics now !

Yes, I loved your pix. Great idea for a post as well.

Gun placement near top of Ballyhoo in Dutch Harbor, Alaska


Bunker


View looking through a bunker

Fort Breendonk near Antwerp Belgium. a Nazi's place

Fort Chaffee, Arkansas.



Elvis Presley did his basic training here.



A Soldier's Story and Biloxi Blues were filmed here.



This was home to thousands of Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian refugess following the end of the Viet Nam War and Cuban refugees following the Mariel boat lift.






Virtually all of the old barracks were destroyed by a wildfire last year.

The famous Parpaillon tunnel was built by the military to control the Italian border in the Alps.



Keep the pics coming !

Nice Bunker ! Could you tell us where it is ?

Marin Headlands, ca


can look spooky with the weather change

Fort Casey, Widbey island, Washington

Funny how long those "temporary" buildings lasted. They are still using at some Army bases. I just don't see our current version of temporary buildings (trailers) lasting that long.

Outside Halifax off of the Beaver Bank Rd.
44.913455,-63.725622 in Google Maps

LOL they are still using those buildings at Ft Indiantown Gap in PA

I did some training there back in the 90's when it was just a training area and actually stayed in those barracks. I even got my hair cut in the same barber shop Elvis had his first GI haircut, and they gave me a copy of his DD214, thought is was cool. Great pics..

This is gonna be a good thread, lots of great pics so far

This was taken in Key West, Iraq, just south of Mosul. It was one of Iraqs larger air bases. One of my crazy soldiers on back.

This the "Fort Central" from the Tende pass on the border betwwen Italy and France. It was built between 1877 and 1880.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_de_Tende










And here is the access road from the French side.

The modern road uses a tunnel, I wonder why ?


I can assure you that you can feel vertigo when riding this road...




Near the top when I felt safe enough to stop for a picture !

The road has 46 switchbacks, is 7.5 km long (4.7 miles) and climbs for 800 meters (2400 feet). Average climb rate is 11%.

From what I understand, these buildings (the concrete shells to the left) are part of a WWII coastal artillery bunker and AA battery built to protect the St. John's (Newfoundland) harbour from attack. Came across these on a bike trip last summer.