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I've heard rumors of large (possibly as large as 1/2 mile square) concrete pads build in the middle of the woods somewhere in the UP. From what I hear they are abandoned communications devices that the government built. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this, ie: if they really exist, where they are, and if it's allowable to drive on them??


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E.L.F. Transmitter.....used to in conjunction with some other things...to detect Soviet nuclear Subs.......Google it.


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Interesting. I've never heard of this....


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I never heard of this. Hmm very interesting. I used to live in Norway, MI outside of Iron Mountain for like 12 years.

I wonder if G money Skrilla has heard of this. If they do exist i highly doubt you can drive on them. I might have to use my clearance and find out the nature of these objects!

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I'll bet my grandma from ishpeming (sp?) will know. I'm going to ask her because that sounds crazy!

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there could be more than one, but in Raco, Michigan, there is the old military airport there. they used to have surface to air missles and what not in underground silos that were meant to protect the sault locks during the cold war and what not. it's a huge triangle, each side probably being around a mile long, with straight aways connecting the sides of the triangles and huge square/rectangle area's also. it's all concrette, not used by the military anymore, acutally used by car companys to test cars in the winter. they have a seperate track nearby, they don't use the concrete runways that much, since they have black top straight aways bulit nearby for testing. it's off of M-28, west of I-75, about a 15-20 minute drive. there's no signs up about tresspassing or anything, but there's bulidings there that are used by the car testers. i've been there many times in the middle of the day, there's no one around, and it's a blast, but you have to go in spring/early summer, cause it's not maintained and grass grows up in spots. it's in the middle of the woods, so you can't see it from the M-28, but you can't miss the entrance, cause there's gates there, but they're never locked unless there's testing going on (gotta keep the new cars top secret, though they take them to sault ste. marie to get worked on if they don't have the right stuff with them, i seen the new mustang in the spring at the ford dealership, and lots of SRT-10's last winter going to the chrysler dealership). i'm sure it's probably illegal to be out there racing and stuff, but i've been doing it for the past 4 summers and never got in trouble. there's even people who camp back there with 5th wheels and stuff. it's about an hour drive total from the bridge if anyone was wondering how to get there.


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Is the One State trooper that patrols that area gonna catch you?

I know theres silos all over the place in the UP i never heard of that though. To the .mil sites i goo

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Thanks Rick, you just confirmed what I was hoping for... I think I'm going to grab the road cones and head that way next summer.

I went to Globe Xplorer and typed in Raco, MI, zoomed out one and you can't miss the triagle shape in the upper left corner. Zooming in on the airport looks sweet.


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here is the company that owns it now.
Smithers Scientific Testing


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ohh ya i know what your talkin about now. In like 01 there was something on Tv6 news about it. Cool Stuff


I say we head on up there!

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