Talk:Project Rulison

Drilling coming near Project Rulison site

Newspaper article in "The Daily Sentinel" in Grand Junction, Colorado. [1] (registration required)

What the newspaper article and this article share is myopia. Why isn't the 'easy' fact that it was an underground nuclear test explicit? Only one word in the article might imply this. Not everyone is a 'local' who knows the history of the area. Shenme (talk) 20:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The site is all but forgotten now. The yellow sign seen in the picture is gone. The final mile or two of the road accessing the site appears to be private. A home has been built on the hill above the site and the concrete pad with plaque is located 30 feet inside a wood rail fence. On the fence right in front of the site is a "No Trespassing" sign. The entire hillside above Parachute is a maze of natural gas production and drilling roads. None of them are marked. Without local assistance you would be unlikely to even find the marker. I was lucky enough to encounter a local sheriff's deputy while on my search for the site. I was close and he gave me final directions enabling me to locate it on July 28, 2013. The site is definitely not "accessible via a gravel road, Garfield County Route 338". Garfield County Road 338 dead end's into a private driveway. Some maps may show a vestigial trail from there on which one could continue to the site but that trail is neither accessible nor passable. Some mapping databases may give you driving directions via that route but they are incorrect. In my opinion this site should be a public monument to mankind's stupidity regarding nuclear weapons and yet it has been put out of sight to be forgotten. TRosenbaum (talk) 14:19, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

When I visited this site last year, there was a fairly well-maintained dirt road, which Google lists as "Underwood Ln", which led east and then south out of Battlement Mesa. This then links up with another road, which Google lists as "Co Rd 338", which led almost directly to the site; There's a fork to the right (perhaps the private drive you've identified), and it was on the left, behind a short fence and clearly photographable. In fact, the site now even has coordinates listed on Google (directions). It was all accessible with a low-clearance, two-wheel-drive vehicle. Chubbles (talk) 16:12, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Google directions linked to will not get you there. Taking Underwood Ln / County 302 will get you there. The location of the well site on the linked-to Google map is incorrect. If one looks at the satellite view, one can see the concrete well cap and low wooden fence. They are located on the east side of the road and approximately 1000 feet west of the location marked "B" on the Google map directions linked to. The well coordinates are 39.405345,-107.948433.TRosenbaum (talk) 07:47, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Regardless, the experiences of both Chubbles and TRosenbaum are personal research, so neither has any proper role in the article. Dgndenver (talk) 23:40, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Outdated tag

why is there an "outdated" tag on this page? There is no discussion from March 2011 or any other time that I can see. Unless there is more information I will see about removing that tag. Dgndenver (talk) 23:40, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]