Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station
Cheyenne Mountain, occasionally referred to as Cheyenne Benchmark, is a 9,565 foot high mountain in El Paso County, Colorado, south of downtown Colorado Springs located in the Western North American Great Plains and is part of Pike National Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 9,564 feet
- Description: mountain in Colorado, United States
- Also known as: “Cheyenne Mountain” and “Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker”
- Historically known as: “Cheyenne Mountain Air Station”
Places of Interest
Highlights include NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain State Park.
NORAD
Military installation
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is a bi-national mutual defense organization in Canada and the United States. Established 12 September 1957 as the North American Air Defense Command, NORAD is headquartered at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, which also serves as the headquarters of United States Northern Command.
Cheyenne Mountain State Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cheyenne Mountain State Park is a Colorado state park that was acquired in June 2000 through a partnership between the City of Colorado Springs, Colorado State Parks, Great Outdoors Colorado, Colorado Lottery, El Paso County, and other local private organizations.
Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: El Paso, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.73721° or 38° 44′ 14″ northLongitude
-104.88081° or 104° 52′ 51″ westElevation
9,564 feet (2,915 metres)Open location code
85CQP4P9+VMOpenStreetMap ID
node 358944247OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل شايان”
- Belarusian: “Шаен (гара)”
- Belarusian: “Шаен”
- Catalan: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Cebuano: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Chinese: “夏延山核戰碉堡”
- Czech: “Čejenská hora”
- Czech: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Czech: “Cheyennská hora”
- Czech: “Hora Čejen”
- Czech: “Hora Cheyenne”
- Danish: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Dutch: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل تشين”
- Esperanto: “Ĉejen-monto”
- Esperanto: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Esperanto: “Cheyenne-monto”
- French: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- French: “mont Cheyenne”
- French: “Mont Cheyenne”
- German: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Hebrew: “הר שאיין”
- Italian: “Monte Cheyenne”
- Japanese: “シャイアン・マウンテン”
- Japanese: “シャイアン・マウンテン空軍基地”
- Japanese: “シャイアンマウンテン”
- Japanese: “シャイアン山”
- Korean: “샤이엔산”
- Ladin: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Polish: “Cheyenne Mountain Air Station”
- Portuguese: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Russian: “Гора Чейен”
- Russian: “Гора Шайен”
- Russian: “Шайенн (гора)”
- Russian: “Шайенн”
- Slovenian: “Cheyenne Mountain”
- Swedish: “Cheyenneberget”
- Urdu: “شاین ماؤنٹین”
- Venetian: “Monte Cheyenne”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Duffield and Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include South Cheyenne Mine and Saint Peters Dome Pegmatite Prospect.
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