NY-56 Fort Hancock - Sandy Hook, NJ
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Metro2
N 40° 25.984 W 073° 59.278
18T E 585839 N 4476316
This Missile Site is located within the Gateway National Recreation Area at New Jersey's beautiful Sandy Hook. Come visit the beach and a missile site.
Waymark Code: WM9P8F
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Blue J Wenatchee
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As visitors to the Gateway National Recreation Area drive toward beach parking areas, they pass by a small parking area which displays a few Nike Missiles and a historical marker. As one travels further north, a Nike Radar site is to be discovered, more missiles on display and a Memorial site on the grounds of Fort Hancock. The Fort was deactivated in 1975. It wasn't until 2002 that the area was opened to visitors...and now it is considered the second-best preserved Nike missile site.
Here is a link to a YouTube piece of the site: (visit link)
To see a little more about the history of the site, see (visit link)

The coordinates listed here represent the site of the historical marker in the small parking lot.
Link to Ed Thelen's Nike location page that includes the site you are submitting: [Web Link]

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