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​ Trinity Tour

We will not be taking a group to Trinity in April of 2022.
​Maybe we will go next year!

Trinity Site, the location where 75 years ago, on July 16, 1945, the first man-made nuclear explosion was detonated, is open only twice a year and the Los Alamos Historical Society is offered a guided tour to the site in October 2021.
 
The Society’s Trinity Tour included a unique two-day, one night experience via the Alamogordo southern approach through the seldom-seen interior of White Sands Missile Range.  Departure from Trinity Site will be out of the northern Stallion Gate, with a lunch stop at New Mexico Tech in Socorro.
 
Bonuses included a visit to the young (5,000-year-old) lava flows of Valley of Fires, and the New Mexico Museum of Space History overlooking the Tularosa Basin, Holloman Air Force Base, and White Sands Missile Range. This excursion aboard a comfortable, restroom-equipped coach included experienced tour direction from Georgia and Gerry Strickfaden, leading their eighteenth trip to Trinity.  

Pictures from October 2021 


October 2021  Itinerary
Thursday, :
  • Enjoy free admission to the Los Alamos History Museum today (open 9 a.m.–5 p.m.) by showing your Trinity Tour ticket.
Friday, : 
  • 9 a.m. departure from Los Alamos.
  • Journey through Santa Fe to Clines Corners where you'll choose your picnic lunch at the Subway.
  • Visit Valley of Fires just outside Carrizozo.
  • Arrive in Alamogordo and visit the New Mexico Museum of Space History.
  • Check in to Fairfield Marriott; dinner on your own.
Trinity Day, :
  • Early breakfast at hotel.
  • Bus departs promptly at 7:00 a.m. in order to form up with the caravan at Tularosa.
  • Entering through the Tularosa Gate, the next 75 miles takes us across much of the eastern portion of the restricted White Sands Missile Range. Approach to Trinity Site is through the famed Mockingbird Gap.
  • At Ground Zero, you are on your own to board the Army's shuttle bus to/from the McDonald/Schmidt Ranch House and to walk the quarter mile from the parking lot to the obelisk marker where the detonation tower war.
  • Leaving Trinity Site, our bus will travel north to Socorro for lunch at New Mexico Tech's Chartwell's Cafeteria.
  • We will arrive back in Los Alamos around 5 p.m.
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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Careers/Jobs
    • Who We Are
    • Contact
  • Museum
    • Plan Your Visit
    • Tours
    • Museum Campus
    • Oppenheimer House
    • Exhibits >
      • Online and Temporary Exhibits
    • Victory Garden
    • Explore Los Alamos
  • Archive
    • About the Archive
    • Research Appointments
    • Inside the Archives
    • Share Your Stories
    • COVID-19 Collecting
  • Learn / Research
    • Information For Teachers
    • Teachers and Caregivers
    • Adult Resources >
      • History Blog
      • National History Day
      • Homestead Driving Tour
      • History at Home
      • Pioneering Women in Los Alamos
      • Development of the Atomic Bomb
      • Links and Resources
  • Programs
    • Upcoming Events
    • Lecture Series
    • Fall 2021 Trinity Tour
    • History Award
    • Los Alamos / Japan Project
    • Volunteer Training
  • Donate
    • Membership
    • Donate to Projects
    • Legacy Society
    • Collections Donations
    • Donate Your Time- Volunteer
  • Shop
    • Books
    • Children's Books & Gifts
    • Apparel
    • Gifts