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TRINITY SITE
Tour Dates: First Saturday in April and the First Saturday in October.
- Chamber of Commerce Motor coach Reservations $45.00
- Caravan leaves from the Tularosa High School Football Field Parking Lot
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Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was tested at 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on July 16, 1945.
The 51,500 acre area was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975. The landmark includes base camp, ground zero, and the McDonald ranch house where the plutonium core to the bomb was assembled. Visitors to a Trinity site Open House see Ground Zero, "Jumbo" bomb casing, the McDonald House, one of the old instrumentation bunkers, historical |
