Operational Silo Test Facility
Marked private. Do not count on getting in.
Operational Silo Test Facility is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 126 m. Tepusquet Peak stands 982 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Radiosonde Launch Site, a park 3.7 miles away. 28 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Destroyed Titan launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base in the United States.
Dates from 1958-06.
Wikidata Q1729736, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
Overlooks nearby
- Lone Oak · 25 mi
- Lover's Point · 25 mi
- Concrete Turret · 25 mi
- Octopus Oak · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Radiosonde Launch Site: 3.7 mi
- Cocheo Park: 4.4 mi
- May Grisham Park: 7.2 mi
- Rice Ranch Open Space: 7.3 mi
- Falcon Park: 7.5 mi
- Burton Mesa: 4.4 mi
- Lions Head: 6.1 mi
- Mount Lospe: 7.1 mi
- Newlove Hill: 8.3 mi
- Camelback Hill: 8.9 mi
- Visitor Center: 3.9 mi
- Space and Missile Heritage Center: 5.2 mi
- SLC-10W Launch Shed: 5.3 mi
- Santa Maria Museum of Flight: 8.7 mi
- Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum: 11.6 mi
- Independence: 17.4 mi
- Bitter Creek Western Railroad: 18.4 mi
- Barbeque Flats: 19.0 mi
- ATV Safety Training Area: 19.1 mi
- Worm Valley: 19.1 mi
- Area 7: 9.0 mi
- Area 8: 9.0 mi
- Area 6: 9.0 mi
- Area 3: 9.1 mi
- Area 4: 9.1 mi
- Minuteman Beach: 5.2 mi
- Seal Beach: 6.4 mi
- Wall Beach: 7.3 mi
- Brown's Beach: 7.7 mi
- Point Sal Beach: 8.5 mi
- Lompoc Valley Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 11.9 mi
- Church ruins: 13.0 mi
- Mission Water Basin Ruins: 13.0 mi
- Original Site of Mission de La Purísima Concepción de María Santísima: 13.0 mi
- Lavandería: 13.0 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 17.8 mi
- Big Spring: 19.9 mi
- Las Animas Spring: 22.8 mi
- Difficult Spring: 23.5 mi
- Barrel Springs: 23.7 mi
- Los Flores Ranch Park: 11.2 mi
- Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge: 14.8 mi
- Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve: 22.8 mi
- Pismo Preserve: 25.0 mi
- Santa Maria Valley Sustainable Garden: 7.9 mi
- Brighton Avenue Garden: 22.5 mi
- Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden: 23.1 mi
- Betteravia: 8.0 mi
- Espada Bluff: 18.9 mi
- Pismo Beach sign: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Operational Silo Test Facility. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tepusquet Peak | ENE 70° | 982 m | 21.7 mi |
| Los Coches Mountain | NE 53° | 919 m | 20.5 mi |
| Bone Mountain | E 80° | 854 m | 23.8 mi |
| Stanley Mountain | NE 42° | 758 m | 25.0 mi |
| Sudden Peak | S 171° | 643 m | 16.7 mi |
| Tranquillon Mountain | S 183° | 628 m | 15.3 mi |
| Oak Mountain | S 172° | 612 m | 17.6 mi |
| Redrock Mountain | ESE 116° | 599 m | 17.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:41 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:42 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:27 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 16:17 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 54 | 55 | 57 | 59 | 62 | 64 | 65 | 64 | 62 | 57 | 52 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Santa Maria Public AP, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/4606993563
Day trips start here
- Guadalupe · 11 mi
- Lompoc · 12 mi
- Santa Maria · 12 mi
- Nipomo · 16 mi
- Oceano · 21 mi
- Arroyo Grande · 22 mi
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