Great museum.and tour. Highly recommend for anyone in the Phoenix or Tucson area.-2because we arrived 5min before the scheduled tour that we PRE-PAID for and were told that the tour already started?!? They knew that we were signed up for the tour and started it anyways without us, even though we still arrived on time. Therefore we had to wait another 60min for the next tour. Though its not a huge deal, I was amazed at the poor decision making of the folks that lead this museum. Why would you start a tour early when you know that more people are coming?

Another fantastic museum with an actual Titan II missile inside although no longer operable. You must be capable of handling many stairs and if you are tall be prepared to duck a lot! There is a special demonstration at the bottom of the silo after climbing down but I will leave that for your visit. Amazing facts are presented by the guide and there is a small museum and gift shop on the surface as well as several outdoor items to be viewed with the guide. They do a nice job!

I myself was a Titan II crew member in 1982 and 1983, and actually served duty at that particular missile site, and I can tell you that everything is identical down to the last detail of how the Titan II program was exactly.The Titan II missile museum is a must see for any military or history enthusiast. It played a critical role in the Cold war as a weapon of deterrence.The missile complex has been preserved to be exactly as it was during its 20 years of active duty. The gift shop and display building is fantastic.The tour guide that we had was an actual Titan II crew member and his tour was impeccable in its authenticity and accuracy.It is a piece of world history, and more importantly American history, and I think it should be seen by everyone. It is a great family activity and it is exceptionally informative and interesting.

Such an amazing part of history. It was a great visit and the staff were all nice.I was slightly concerned for the group size for the tours given the current state of the world (I think our group had 15+ people and theres a portion of the tour in tight quarters). I dont know if this will change but they do require masks and provide gloves for the tour as you will head down a set of stairs.

Was excited to visit and actual property was very cool. Tour guide on the other hand was a cross of Minnie Mouse and Saturday Night Live. Very little actual info, mainly a long, never-ending loop of bad jokes. She was totally unable to answer the simplest of questions. Truly a waste of time.

Amazing! Our guide was great and explained a lot and answered all questions. Completely worth the experience. Go! You wont regret it!

Decent museum if you like military stuff. Pretty short and not too much to see. I recommend. It is worth the price.

It was a fun and interesting experience. I recommend if you want to learn a lot of history or to see the missile.

This is one of the best things weve done in a while. This is an authentic missele silo with an authentic Titan missile still in it. The tour guide was very knowledgeable about these missiles and the silo itself. We loved it.

A Unique and very interesting experience. The tour guides were great and so informative. We took kids ranging 7-13. The guides actually worked back when it was in commission so it was cool to hear the day to day stories. My kids enjoyed learning about it. Going down into the sites and seeing the Missile was fascinating. Also, looking down 103 feet into the Missile well was something we will never forget. The cost is $10 for kids $12 and up 13.95$ for adults.

Very cool and unique piece of history, well worth the price of admission. It takes less than two hours for the whole tour.

What a great piece of history! The only remaining Titan II transcontinental ballistic missile. Nuclear warhead has been deactivated, otherwise it looks exactly like it did before. Very informative and interactive tour by Steve and Marsha. Many thanks to the museum staff for keeping the place operational. Would definitely recommend to anyone. Well worth the drive from Phoenix.

Amazing experience! Staff were knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Would definitely go again.

An unique place that have the history of one the ICBMs that were installed in USA. The tour is about 45 minutes, and one of the best part is the simulation of a missile launch. The tour guide was excellent and open to any kind of questions.

This place is utterly fascinating! Our tour guide was incredible! The best museum in Arizona!

Very cool location to visit for the whole family! Lots of great information and history! Fun gifts and memorabilia too.Wonderful tour with cool picture opportunities and very awesome stories. The tour guides are all volunteers and seem to be somewhat hit or miss on some things and their demeanor or enthusiasm. However, overall just a wonderful experience! Would recommend to anyone who enjoys history and cool historic landmarks

I cant recommend a visit to this museum enough. If you have any interest in military, cold war or even star trek for that matter you should really visit this place. Very nice and knowledgeable staff, the complex is preserved beautifully and the construction is impressive to say the least. The launch simulation in the launch command room was very eye opening and I left the place with a great respect for all who served in these missile silos. I would visit again.

Great tour even for the novice or those not particularly interested in military stuff. Tour guides are knowledgeable. You get right up close with the missile and command center.

Awesome experience! The only remaining Titan silo with a Missile (albeit deactivated). A step back in time to when the world hovered on the brink of apocalypse. Understanding the strategic importance and value of US Missile defense and the astounding technology involved is well worth the drive to this semi remote museum.

I thought this was a great example of how a cold war museum should be made. The history of the site was just a small part of the very important Cold War history that is so fantastically told here. Every member of the family, from Grandpa who may have served in the military back then to the grade school children who thinking this is ancient history, should see this museum. Its a tribute to those that conceived and carried out MAD!

Very interesting and historic. I went as a kid years ago but took my 10 and 6 year old recently. Young kids may get a bit bored with the 20 minute video about the Cold War to start the tour. Tour guide was very knowledgeable but a bit dry. As a kid I recall the tour guide being a bit more animated. Guess it depends who you get. Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys history or that grew up during the Cold War. FYI, if you are over 6ft tall you are required to wear a hardhat during the underground portion of the tour.

A unique look back to Cold War history is found at this unique museum. Inexpensive your will show you the inside of the underground control bunker and missile solo, with a decommissioned missile in there. A Titan II is a lot bigger than I thought! You can also see a mock-up of a 9 kiloton thermonuclear device. There is a small giftshop as well to memorialize your visit with a souvenir.

I will go for 5 stars. It is the only complete and surviving Titan 2 missile silo (the rest were demolished) and it presents a very important part of cold war history. Just seeing the 1960s technology and how it clearly was money no object on defence funding back then.Sadly you dont see a lot of the complex on the regular tour, but other longer tours are also offered.Definitely worth a visit if you are in SW USA, but if you are more than average interested in tech and/or history, book one of the longer tours.

Very interesting but chilling at the same time. Enjoyed the science and engineering that went into the site design, which Dave (who was awesome, keep up the good work!) did a great job explaining to us. But its very sobering to sit in that commanders chair, turn that key, and watch those old computers faithfully clunk through the steps for launching WWIII. Really worth a visit.

You need to check this place out! Its like a frozen capsule of how things were in height of the cold war.The silo staff was very informative and provided great information on how this former secret missile silo was operated ranging from surface security to everyday life of those stationed, to command prep/readiness and the historical importance behind it.The missile is there (warheads removed) and the height of it is breathtakingly tall. Theres plenty of old/decommissioned equipment on display and informative guides and plaques explaining the use of the equipment or dangers the base personnel faced from it too.

This was a great experience! We had a lovely time wandering through the Cold War facilities, learning the history of the missile museum and the Cold War here in America. The people working there are very friendly and helpful. The guide was very well informed and was enthusiastic about everything about the museum. It will probably take a few hours of your time. It was a great day out and well worth the small admission fee!

Great interesting tour! Worth the trip trip to visit this piece of cold war history and amazing engineering feat! Friendly staff!

This is a great tour to see some Cold War history. The tour is popular so be sure to make reservations well in advance of your visit. The displays are fascinating, docents are knowledgeable and the area is well kept.

Outstanding. Thorough speaker. Great explanation. Tidy, super clean. I had no idea there were 18 or so other missle sites in Tucson!

The guide was very energetic and enthusiastic, not to mention knowledgeable! Had a great time. There are lots of stairs getting up and down, feel the burn. Lots of decent photo opportunities! They play a 17 minute video before the tour giving you some additional background info.

Awesome tour, guide will answer any and all questions. Volunteer to turn the key. Its very informative. Please think about why we as humans have to use might makes right which was then called peace through deterrence.

Now this was one very interesting stop on our visit to the Tucson area. A very interesting look back in history with tours given by men that were serving at the time (at least in our case).

Being a bit of a history buff I enjoyed visiting the Titan Missile Museum. The docents were very informative with some great stories to tell from the cold war era. I was very young at the time these missiles were active and its only by the grace of God that we survived. We should never forget the sacrifices made by the those men and women who stood guard and ready to take action at the presidents command.

Informative and entertaining, if misslies are your thing. Gets into the nitty gritty of the control room, propulsion systems, and the construction of the base. Tour begins with a video which looks like it was from the 90s but... once below its fun. It is awe inspiring to be inside and up close and personal with all this machinery and infrastructure.Tuscon is a fun town to spend an evening in, which helps to break up the monotony of this trip to nowhere.

Touching tour to a somewhat unreal place. Its so strange to know that this missile was meant to destroy places in Europe or Russia widely. And there were more missiles like this. Tour guide told us that sometimes people come and thank them for not pushing the start buttons. Well, we all can thank them.Very well organized place. Its recommendable to come early as theres a limited number of people in each tour.

First note is: I thought it was worth it but.... The tour starts with a neat 17 minute (almost a third of the hour tour) and is immediately proceeded by the guide giving you ten minutes of the exact information you just watched. So I admit I was a little frustrated by that. You then (30 to 35 minutes later) move to the actually subterranean structure. Kind of cool but you only get to see the control center (one of a few levels)... Lots of good information given here too. The silo itself is cool but its really just a single area with some windows and then the tour is done. You get to wonder around top and see some the surface antennas and a window down through the launch structure. All in all the tour was fine but man could this thing be cooler (in my mind anyways) I get that they are trying to preserve the history. The place was definitely well kept. Looked like I was back in the 70s seeing it during its operational phase. Summary: the your is really just 10 minutes of information (they talk themselves in circles).

The Titan Missile Museum is a fun day trip to take if youre in the Tucson area. Only a 30-40 minute drive, for a reasonable price, you get an hour guided tour of the missile facility. Seeing an actual nuclear weapons platform is awe inspiring.The lobby gives you good background of the era, and history leading up to the development of the Titan II Missile.I recently took my 5 year old son. He did well, but it is probably more appropriate for children in the 8-9+ age, due to the high level vocabulary used during the tour.

Very interesting look into our nations nuclear deterrent system. Wow what an amazing experience.

As a nerd, I cant not like this place. It is amazing how well preserved it is, and so much is authentic. It is almost surreal visiting here, seeing an actual Titan II. The staff are amazing, and have a good sense of humor. Just about everything is the real deal, and hasnt been modified.

Really enjoyed our on-a-whim trip to the Titan Missile Museum. Make sure you call ahead about tour times. Including a 17-minute video, the tour lasted a little over an hour. While we waited for our tour to begin, there was an informative waiting area to learn about Cold War and missile history. Our docent was extremely knowledge because I think he said he served there in the 60s. He walked us through the missile launch process which was awesome. There is also a 90 minute tour and a 5 hour tour on specific days which I think I would like to come back here and do. As a huge history buff I would highly recommend this museum! Thanks!!

Outstanding! I learned a lot about our Missile program.

Extremely educational site. Dont let us forget our past, and thus be destined to repeat it.

Very strange if you grew up at the time of the Cold War. This heavy bomb shocks. But very friendly staff and interesting tour with very nice guides. You should see this.

I was thrilled to visit the Museum. I’ve heard a lot about the Titan Missile program including reading a great book called Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser.The museum is very professional as are the volunteers that run the tours. I would have given the place 5 stars but I felt we were being rushed through the tour. I would rather have paid double and been allowed to see more for longer.I asked some innocuous questions and felt like I had offended the guide. If you are not allowed to ask about the Damascus Accident or the SAC in the 60’s then they should probably tell you that before the tour.

The only remaining Titan II missile silo site? I’m in! So much history and very well presented and preserved. Great docents to tell the story. Fascinating museum, especially as a child of the 60s and 70s. Learned a lot and was amazed at how well preserved this facility is. Kudos to the team who are running this. Absolutely recommended!

The museum has an unassuming presence and is therefore easy to overlook. Ive lived in the area for about 12 years and had never been until this weekend! I would recommend the tour to anyone who is interested in our nations history, military and ways that technology has been used. Its perfect for a quick but meaningful afternoon outing. The tour is about an hour long and the guides are very friendly and knowledgeable. I plan to return with other friends and family members.

Very interpretive! 10.50 for adults. Takes a few hours for the tour. Computing power of the computers that launch that missle was only 17 kilobytes.The underground facilities consist of a three-level Launch Control Center, the eight level silo containing the missile and its related equipment, and the connecting structures of cableways (access tunnels), blast locks, and the access portal and equipment elevator. The complex was built of steel reinforced concrete with walls as much as 8-foot-thick (2.4 m) in some areas, and a number of 3-ton blast doors sealed the various areas from the surface and each other.The top level of the silo permits viewing the silo missile doors. Level 3 houses a large diesel generator. Level 7 provides access to the lowest part of the launch duct. Visitors on the Beyond the Blast Doors tour are allowed to stand directly underneath the missile. Level 8, at 140 ft (43 m) underground, houses the propellant pumps.

Interesting place that was establish during a time in our past that could have wiped the world away! Tour guide was great. Crazy to think how many were around during that time frame!

The docent-led tour was excellent. Our guide Steve was knowledgeable, entertaining and a born storyteller. Visiting the Command Center where the Titan Missile with a 9-megaton warhead would have been shot at the USSR was chilling. Also, seeing an actual Titan Missile in its solo was fascinating. Well worth a visit. I hope to return next time I’m in Tucson.

BUY YOUR TOUR TICKETS ONLINE BEFORE YOU GO!!! So many people arrived without tickets and had to wait several hours for a tour time that had spots available, dont do what they did!!! Its very easy to sign up and pay online!!!! Having said that, the Tour is well worth the price and the wait if you dont buy your tickets ahead of time. My kids 11 & 14, loved it, the tour was very informative, never boring and so cool to actually get to see it!! If you have kids look for the Junior Missiler books (FREE!), kind of like a Junior ranger program, the book has lots of great information and is presented in a fun way!! When they finish or make an effort to finish they get a patch! A wonderful piece of history, everyone will learn something and have a new appreciation for what was happening during the Cold War.

The information provided relative to the construction of the complexes and the missiles was all very interesting and well done.The facilities are well maintained and the tour was well run.What I had not expected was the amount of background detail on how the Titan Missals were only ever intended as a deterrent in the game of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) being played with the Russians.The explanations around costs and how the systems were kept in place for more than twice their expected life was also of interest.

Great museum. The tour was really interesting and our guide, Murray, was very spirited. I would definitely recommend visiting.

Well worth the visit. Only thing could be better would be if they let you down to the very bottom of the silo. Good front end static information at the gift shop, followed by an interesting video, and then the tour. These are popular so you may have to wait a bit. The tour is very cool, I mean when do you get to see something like this? Do it, spend a couple of hours, and then go nearby and tour the copper mine.

Awesome tour. Murray was excellent. Great time.

If you’re into military history, this is one super interesting stop. Loved seeing the simulated middle launch and the tour of the underground facility. Our tour guide was stationed there durning to Cold War and he had some unique perspectives about operating a missile with a 9 megaton warhead and how it felt to have his workplace targeted by the Soviets. Amazing.

Great! Very interesting! A lot of information throw the tour! Very recommend!

The Titan Missile Museum is an eerie and chilling walk through time. That the launch control center looks like a sci--fi movie set from the 1950s almost belies its deadliness. Billed as a nuclear deterrent (good luck proving that it wasnt needed), a staggering sum was spent on this missile program. Still most of the descriptions are surprisingly even-handed without the unquestioning rah-rah patriotism of most war histories.

What an excellent tour of this museum while touring in Arizona this past year. The museum is staffed by an excellent group of volunteers who will share the history of the United States Air Force titan to missile Museum.I encourage everyone to take a tour of this museum and you will learn the history of the cold war between United States and the Soviet UnionThe gift shop is staffed by an excellent staff of volunteers and you’ll possibly meet former service members of the United States military who were known Who sever in Missile crewsWhile you’re on the tour of the titan two missile silo site the tour guide will show you the missile, afterwords they take you on a tour of the missile control room and you will be surprised by the expertise that our missile crews train and live in Proving this nation securityThank you for the excellent tour

This is an amazing place the exhibits are so interesting & informative. Spent a couple of hours there alone. The tour of misdle silo is great. Note:: you do need to climb stairs about 5 flights no elevator. This is a great piece of history. A must see.

Very amazing museum. Did the top to bottom tour and its an experience Ill never forget. 1 of a kind experience. Highly reccomend going, the guides are a bit too fast with how they present everything, and if they slowed down a bit itd be 5 stars.

Really great place to visit at least once. We spent 3 hrs here but definitely did not have time to cover everything. I would recommend getting here early to spend the day.

Amazing! You can walk the entire silo from the surface, all the way to the bottom! Wow!

Tour guides were super nice, and explained history very well, totally worth the price. It is a Must if you are visiting sahuarita

Truly a place of history and the tour guides were unbelievable!This is a place everyone needs to see and learn about how tense things were during the Cold War!

Really is fun for everyone. We took our three-year-old and he managed well.Great tour, excellent to photograph. Very well run. Fascinating history. Would highly recommend this if youre visiting Tucson. Worth the drive.Take the Beyond the Blast Door tour if you have time.An odd destination youll surely remember.

A wonderful rare (probably unique) chance to step inside a nuclear missile silo. The control room and view of the deactivated Titan were extremely interesting. Agree with one comment that the video and host can be a bit repetitive, but this does little to diminish seeing one of the most interesting things I have seen in the US.

Very interesting! I felt it was worth the money to see.

It doesnt get more unique than this. The only titan missile silo you can visit in the world

This is a really neat place to visit. Very inexpensive and you learn a lot. My teenage son loved it. It didnt even take up our whole day and we were back to North Phoenix before sunset, we even stopped for an early dinner before making it back home. Read all rules before you go because if you cant go up and down stairs very well, this isnt the place for you. Its great for a nice little get away from the city.

Fascinating relic of the cold war. Very interesting and good informative tour.

I am a Tucson resident. I turned the launch key today at the tour. I am a baby boomer. Therefore a child of the cold war. my husband is a disabled veteran of the cold war era. I am also a social worker and a grandmother of 6. The experience of the tour and the experience of sitting in the seat of a launch control officer was interesting. When they asked for a volunteer. I stepped up. I was unsure that I could turn the key to launch. Even though I knew it was a simulation. Once I turned the key. I was told twice to release it. Weather you are chosen to turn the key as I was or not. This is a very important part of American history. You need to take this tour!

Great missile museum, a lot of incredible history. So much to see.

This is a part of what has kept us Americans all safe.... This is history. Well worth a visit. Very impressed with this tour.

Went here with grandbo after visiting roswell and dallas to see an epitaphwe were surprised other people protested maybe they wanted to bee in our jetta and it was a joke since their mini van mite have been the real reason making em mad or maybe it was a hair farmer they were mad at the real reason probably the dopey look some people give like the way too happy reward me all the time anyhow it was greeat to see the missile silo museum and the giant springs i betcha no one bothering to mention the giant springs used in the missile silo museum probably their brains function like bologna lunch meat you wouldnt want to eat bologna really if you saw what it came from i think we went to Loving Hut in Phoenix after the missile silo museum we should have stayed all day but instead i insisted on going to see some other things in the area i have to go now i will update soon my computer time at the library is getting used upi wonder about the presidential football with the codes to launch a missile attackit is so wrong to insist on demanding monees from the homeless to pay for admissions what do those embezzlers do with it

This is a very unique Museum! It gives you a peek into a time of History the very few places allow you to look with this much detail and immersion. The museum exhibits on the top of the surface are not very big, but thats not where this Museum really shines. This Museum has all of the good stuff out back underground inside of a very well preserved missile silo and control bunker. The guided tour to go down and see everything is one I would recommend to anyone passing through the area. They even do overnight tours that allow you to sleep down in the bunker and experience what it would have been like for the crew stationed there on alert.

Fascinating tour. A chance to see the only remaining site open to the public, and pretty much as it was. Well - except no actual function! There is the shell of the missile still in the silo. Our guide was outstanding. Patient and able to answer any questions. Nice introductory film. Large handbags and backpacks should be left in your car or there are keyed lockers inside.After the tour you can walk anywhere around the outside, then visit the museum shop.There are a lot of open-grate steps down (and back up) so beware of wearing heels. Not for anyone needing assistance as this is the original facility. No elevator.

Technically interesting but chilling look into a weapon system that threatened millions but kept peace. Great presentations both on video and in person. All original and authentic equipment. A very important site that everyone should visit.

Got to do thing in area. Learn about history by making it fun and real. Guided tour down into silo (fair price) or outside tour and look down silo. Great museum display and nice store to buy memorabilia. Loved it. I would actually go again.

Very interesting tour that reminded me of what we lived through in the Cold War. Im glad they were able to preserve the missile and silo as a museum. Our tour was led in part by a woman who actually manned (womanned?) the controls where the key was that could have sent the missile to its top secret destination. She had been in the Air Force for 30 years, but women were not allowed at the controls until 1977, 14 years after the program started. Its hard to believe. Im thankful our daughters will not have to grow up in that environment.

What a great museum. The docens were knowledgeable and friendly. The exhibits well-preserved and easily accessible. A great place to spend an hour with the family or three hours by yourself

You dont want to miss this Historic Museum , Friendly staff Wish I could have stayed longer

Fascinating place to visit. Would suggest for anyone that is interested in the cold war or missiles and how they were disarmed. We did the Directors tours and found it very interesting. Yvonne was a fantastic guide and we enjoyed hearing about her experience of being stationed at the silo in the 80s. Would visit again to take a different tour.They have a great gift shop with authentic cold war memorabilia.

This place is an incredible time capsule from one of the most dangerous times in human history. Spend the extra time and money to book a top-to-bottom guided tour and see the entire facility. The tour guides are exceptionally knowledgeable and take all the time needed to answer any and all questions on the tour. I highly recommend this place for anybody 10 & up.

What an experience. This is our history. Knowledgable docents make the tour fun and educational. If you havent been yet, you have to get there and check it out.

If you do nothing else in Tucson go to this museum! This was one of the neatest tours I have ever taken. Informative and fascinating, this museum gives real insight into the cold war and some of the technology and effort‘s America implemented to protect the citizens against enemies. It will require a fair amount of walking and The elevator is currently not working, so you better be prepared to walk up and down at least 50 or 60 steps. The tour guides are informative and fascinating to listen to - the tour takes approximately one hour and it doesn’t seem like enough time! I highly recommend going. Five stars!

A very important part of cold war history. It is important that we preserve places like this for future generations to experience and understand why such things were necessary during the time they operated. Very good your and history lesson. Well maintained and worth the price of admission.

I didnt realize silos have tours! Very informative, explaining context in history for this one, which housed a Titan II. And they explain how this one worked, how many others were part of its network. Eye opening.

Amazing! The best experience in Tucson

Great place for cold war history funs. Helpful tour guides.

Very friendly staff, One of our guides actually worked there when it was open.Very interesting, well worth it.

This place was so cool! The staff were very knowledgeable about the Missile and all of the history behind it but made it fun to hear. Such an awesome experience

Enjoyed the tour of my old stomping ground. I spent 3 1/2 years on line crew and instructor crews. I recommend people to see this place to understand more of our military history.

This was a great tour! The guides are very knowledgeable and experienced in the field having served in this location. It is very eye opening to see the Cold War from this perspective.

Amazing experience..The docents were very knowledgeable about the history of the missile site. Special thanks to Bob and Ken. We took the Blast door tour and accessed the bottom of the Missile Silo. Plenty to see and photograph...wish there was a little more time on the tour to allow for that.

We visited when my son was about 8. We received an excellent tour,and he loved being able to turn the key. Even though it was hot, we did a surface tour as well. Super interesting. Well worth the trip fro. Tucson.

Great experience! Very detailed guided tour and knowledge-full staff!

The Titan Missile Museum, also known as Air Force Facility Missile Site 8 or as Titan II ICBM Site 571-7, is a former ICBM missile site located at 1580 West Duval Mine Road, Sahuarita, Arizona in the United States. It is located about 40 km (25 mi) south of Tucson on I-19. It is now a museum run by the nonprofit Arizona Aerospace Foundation and includes an inert Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile in the silo, as well as the original launch facilities. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. It is the only surviving Titan II complex to survive from the late Cold War period. The underground facilities consist of a three-level Launch Control Center, the eight level silo containing the missile and its related equipment, and the connecting structures of cableways (access tunnels), blast locks, and the access portal and equipment elevator. The complex was built of steel reinforced concrete with walls as much as 8-foot-thick (2.4 m) in some areas, and a number of 3-ton blast doors sealed the various areas from the surface and each other. The top level of the silo permits viewing the silo missile doors. Level 3 houses a large diesel generator. Level 7 provides access to the lowest part of the launch duct. Visitors on the Beyond the Blast Doors tour are allowed to stand directly underneath the missile. Level 8, at 140 ft (43 m) underground, houses the propellant pumps. The 103-foot (31 m) Titan II missile inside the silo has neither warhead nor fuel, allowing it to be safely displayed to visitors. In accordance with a US/USSR agreement, the silo doors are permanently blocked from opening more than half way. The dummy reentry vehicle mounted on the missile has a prominent hole cut in it to prove it is inert. All of the support facilities at the site remain intact, complete with all of their original equipment. The silo became operational in 1963 and was deactivated in 1984 as part of President Reagans policy (announced in 1981) of decommissioning the Titan II missiles as part of a weapon systems modernization program. All operational Titan II silos throughout the country were demolished, including 18 sites around McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas, 17 sites near Little Rock AFB, Arkansas (one additional site previously damaged beyond repair in a mishap/non-nuclear explosion) and 17 other sites by Davis-Monthan AFB and Tucson with the exception of this one. It is now a National Historic Landmark. A visitor center for the site features a gift shop, a small museum and guided tours of the site. The museum is intended to put the Titan II within the context of the Cold War. Paid tours are available for hire, offering education about the history of the Titan II site and program, as well as a closer look at many features of the complex. Relics include hardstands for fuel storage containers and the associated control vehicles, restored engines from a Titan II missile, and a re-entry vehicle. Tours below ground may include the control room, the cableways (tunnels), the silo, antenna tower and more. More information can be found and reservations may be made via the museum web site. Several times each month a more extensive top to bottom tour is available. This tour takes up to 5 hours and accommodates a maximum of six people. Prior reservations required. The top-to-bottom tour is not handicapped accessible. Several scenes in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact were shot at the site. The missile itself was depicted as the launch vehicle for the films Phoenix spacecraft, the first warp prototype.

Very informative, great tour guide and lots of historical info to take in.

Excellent place to visit. Our newbie guide was pretty funny so thumbs up.

Half an hour south of Tucson, Arizona, is the exceptional Titan Missile Museum, a National Historic Landmark. During the Cold War, the Titan II ICBM was the cornerstone of national deterrence, with each of the 52 missiles carrying a 9 megaton warhead. All missiles were decomissioned and destroyed following the SALT negotiations with Soviet Union, with the exception of this one. The silo, underground facility, and missile (without warhead) are on exhibit to warn us of the dangers and threat of nuclear war. In the photos you can see enormous springs which are shock absorbers to keep the facility and launch platform relatively stable in the event of a nuclear detonation. In such an event there is enough food for 30 days, plus oxygen for 1 day. So eat all you want.