Tagged: Cold War-era radar surveillance facility

Murphy Dome radar site near Fairbanks as it looks today. This is all that is left of a much larger radar installation dating from the 1950s. Pen & ink on watercolor paper, 8" dia.

Peaceful Murphy Dome was once a Cold War radar surveillance site

Murphy Dome, named by prospectors in the early 1900s, is a 2,930-foot-tall mountain 20 miles northwest of Fairbanks. It is the highest point in the area, and with a summit almost 2,500 feet above...