EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The next open house for the Trinity Site at White Sands Missile Range will be on Oct. 19, the Army installation announced.
The Trinity Site is where the world’s first atomic bomb was tested at 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time July 16, 1945.
The open house is free and no reservations are required. At the site, visitors can take a quarter-mile walk to ground zero where a small obelisk marks the exact spot where the bomb was detonated.
WSMR recently announced that it was transitioning to annual open houses instead of twice a year.
Weather and roads permitting, the Schmidt/McDonald Ranch House will also available to visit. The ranch house is where the scientists assembled the plutonium core of the bomb.
To get to Trinity Site, visitors enter WSMR through its Stallion Range Center gate, located five miles south of U.S. Highway 380. The turnoff is 12 miles east of San Antonio, New Mexico. The Stallion Gate is open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. The site closes promptly at 3:30 p.m.
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