Military Sites - California, United States
173 documented abandoned military sites have been mapped by the Urbexology community in California, concentrated mainly around Sausalito (22), Marin City (14), Lone Pine (8). Each location below links to its own page with coordinates, photos where available, and access notes.
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- Sausalito (22)
- Marin City (14)
- Lone Pine (8)
- Fort Irwin (7)
- Tiburon (7)
- San Francisco (6)
- Inverness (5)
- Bridgeport (4)
- Milpitas (4)
- Waterford (3)
- Lexington Hills (3)
- Salton City (3)
- Sunnyside-Tahoe City (3)
All locations
- 53rd Street (Inverness)
- A Sentinel in Time (San Pedro)
- Ancient Kumeyaay Historic Winter Village Site (Borrego Springs)
- Angel Island quarry rock crusher (Tiburon)
- Ashford Mill (Fort Irwin)
- Bartlett (Lone Pine)
- Battery Alexander (Marin City)
- Battery Boutelle (Sausalito)
- Battery Chamberlin (Sausalito)
- Battery Chester (Sausalito)
- Battery Chester (Sausalito)
- Battery Crosby (Sausalito)
- Battery Crosby (Sausalito)
- Battery Davis (Broadmoor)
- Battery Davis (Broadmoor)
- Battery Drew (Tiburon)
- Battery Godfrey (Sausalito)
- Battery Ledyard (Tiburon)
- Battery Ledyard (Tiburon)
- Battery Ledyard (Tiburon)
- Battery Lobos (Sausalito)
- Battery Mendell (Marin City)
- Battery O'Rorke (Marin City)
- Battery Ridge (Sausalito)
- Battery Smith-Guthrie (Marin City)
- Battery Spencer (Sausalito)
- Battery Townsley (Tamalpais-Homestead Valley)
- Battery Unknown (Tamalpais-Homestead Valley)
- Battery Wagner (Sausalito)
- Battery Wagner (Sausalito)
- Battery Wallace (Marin City)
- Battery Wallace (Tiburon)
- Benjamin Foxen Adobe Ruins (Los Alamos)
- Berkeley Pier (Albany)
- Big Bend Dam (Berry Creek)
- Bodie Bluff (Bridgeport)
- Bodie Ghost Town (Bridgeport)
- Boiler rooms (Sausalito)
- Boiler rooms (Sausalito)
- Boys' Camp Abandoned Pool (North Glendale)
- Broadwell (Fort Irwin)
- Bunker (Dixon)
- Bunker Gulch (Fort Bragg)
- Bunker Hill (Sutter Creek)
- Bunker Hill (Nevada City)
- Bunker Hill (Williams)
- Bunker Hill (Sutter Creek)
- Bunker Hill (Sunnyside-Tahoe City)
- Bunker Lake (Sunnyside-Tahoe City)
- Bunker Meadow (Sunnyside-Tahoe City)
- Burns Creek Trestle (Lexington Hills)
- Cable House (San Francisco)
- Camp Cady Monument (Fort Irwin)
- Camron's Bunker (Arden-Arcade)
- Canned Heat House (Topanga)
- Cerro Gordo Welcome Sign (Lone Pine)
- Collapsed Graphite Mine (La Crescenta-Montrose)
- Contol Station II (Lone Pine)
- Control Station I (Lone Pine)
- Cooperstown (Waterford)
- Cooperstown Depot (Waterford)
- Coyote Dry Lake Bed (Fort Irwin)
- Coyote Islet (Bridgeport)
- Crater (Big Pine)
- Crucero (Fort Irwin)
- Devil's Bunker (Montara)
- Dolores Lake (Fort Irwin)
- Dos Rios Bridge (Covelo)
- Drawbridge (Milpitas)
- Drawbridge (Milpitas)
- Drawbridge (Milpitas)
- Drawbridge Ghost-town Viewpoint (Milpitas)
- Dumbarton Branch (East Palo Alto)
- Early Settlers Ruin (Rancho Cucamonga)
- Falk (Pine Hills)
- Fannette Island Tea House (Tahoma)
- Fannette Island Tea House (Tahoma)
- Faye Avenue (Sausalito)
- Fire Control Station (Coronado)
- Ft. Point 1861: historic civil engineering landmark (Sausalito)
- Garden City Wreckage (Crockett)
- Generator Building (Marin City)
- Geysers Road Historic Bridge (Cloverdale)
- Graffiti ruins (Humboldt Hill)
- HIPAR Building (Marin City)
- Hawes Auxilary Airfield (Lenwood)
- Headframe (Lone Pine)
- Hemet Maze Stone (Green Acres)
- Historic Green Ranch Site (Blackhawk)
- ICC Building (Marin City)
- ICC Building (Marin City)
- Indian Dick Forest Service Station (Covelo)
- Krons bunker (Cameron Park)
- Launch Pad (Agua Dulce)
- Lighthouse station (abandoned) (Bonny Doon)
- Loading Terminal (Lone Pine)
- Lois Ewen Overlook (Las Flores)
- Mad Mark's Castle (Albany)
- Main pool house (Sausalito)
- Marineland Of The Pacific, former location (Rancho Palos Verdes)
- Masonic Mountain (Bridgeport)
- Mengel Pass (Searles Valley)
- Mile Rock (Sausalito)
- Mitchell-Dyer Family Cemetery (Santa Clarita)
- Montgomery Pass, Nevada (Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek)
- Morena Butte (Campo)
- Mule Spring Stage Station (Mesa Verde)
- Mulkey Cow Camp (Lone Pine)
- NASA Crows Landing Airport and Test Facility (Patterson)
- NKX Weather Radar (NOAA) (Poway)
- Naval Quarters 1 Nimitz House (San Francisco)
- New Mud Pots (Niland)
- Nike Missile Control Site SF-87 (Sausalito)
- Nike Missile Control Site SF-88C (Marin City)
- Nike Missile Control Site SF-89C (San Francisco)
- Nike Missile Site LA -88 (Chatsworth)
- OLD SKI LIFT (Wrightwood)
- Observation Bunker (Sausalito)
- Old Cooperstown town (Waterford)
- Panamint Valley (Searles Valley)
- Phototheodolite Station (Ridgecrest)
- Pico No. 4 (Valencia)
- Plotting and Survey Room (San Pedro)
- Point Bonita Lifesaving Station (ruins) (Marin City)
- Point Estero Shipwreck (Cayucos)
- Point Knox (Tiburon)
- Pollasky Bridge (Bonadelle Ranchos-Madera Ranchos)
- Portals of the Past (San Francisco)
- Powerhouse (Inverness)
- Presidio Battery West (Sausalito)
- Quiet—Harbor Seals at Rest (Marin City)
- Ready Room (Marin City)
- Reeves Dry Lake (Apple Valley)
- Ruins of Mrs. Orcutt's Home (Fort Irwin)
- Ryan Ranch bunk house (Twentynine Palms)
- S.S. Point Reyes (Inverness)
- Saltdale (California City)
- Salton City (Salton City)
- San Pasqual Battlefield State Park (San Pasqual)
- Schocken Hill (Sonoma)
- Sentry Box (Marin City)
- Sequoia Aqueduct (Piedmont)
- Signal Butte Switchback (McCloud)
- Smith Memorial Hiking Trail (Quail Valley)
- Southern Pacific Ferry Terminal (Crockett)
- Southern Pacific Tunnel (Mountain House)
- Spivey Pond (Pollock Pines)
- State Belt Railroad (San Francisco)
- State Belt Railroad (San Francisco)
- Statues (Salton City)
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