Trinity Site

Since we entered New Mexico back in December, and stopped at the visitors center and found out that the Trinity Site would be open the first Saturday in April, we've had a target to visit the Trinity Site on this date. We stayed last night in San Antonio, NM and left a little after 8am to make our way to the Stallion Gate. We found ourselves in a long line of cars (probably about 3 miles from the gate when we got there about 9am).

There was even a longer line behind us...

Eventually we got through the Stallion Gate, and then drove the 17 miles to ground zero. The road was REALLY rough since we had Miss Daisy and she was really rockin' and rollin' on the drive in!

We first took a bus to the George McDonald ranch house where the bomb's core was assembled. We got into line for the bus before the caravan from Alamagorda arrived, which was good on the timing!

We took the bus back to ground zero and walked about 1/4 mile to the ground zero site.

There is a large oblisk at ground zero

There were a LOT of people there with us!

All in all, we had a good time and got to see the Trinity Site just as planned!

On our drive east, we drove through Capitan, NM - which is where the Smokey Bear Historical Park was located. The baby bear Smokey was found after a forest fire in the Capitan Mountains nearby.

We didn't take time to go through the park, but I got this picture from the outside!