Abandoned Mount Laguna Air Force Station – Upper Base – electrical generator plant

This building once housed several diesel-powered electric generators that were used to power the the Distant Early Warning radar, water pumps, etc. The generators have long since been removed. Mount Laguna Air Force Station is located atop Mount Laguna, with a steep drop into the Anza Borrego desert. It was a DEW (Distant Early Warning) site, watching for incoming missiles, and housed about 170 people until it was downsized in 1981. Now it is a multi-use satellite and radar communications site ...