Titan Missile Museum

Everyone should visit this place. This is a great piece of American history that had a huge impact on our American way of life. We had the opportunity to book a private tour for our family. The tour guides were extremely knowledgeable and professional. One of our guides actually served at the base in the late 60’s.
We were able to see the entire facility top to bottom and we couldn’t be more impressed with the experience. A special thanks to the Titan Missle Museum and their great staff for providing a great experience for our family.

Great tour. There’s a 1 hr version and a 7 hr version. Having only gone on the 1 hr version, it was well lead and covered a lot of ground. The mock missile launch is definitely the highlight and be sure to volunteer quick to be the one to turn the key.

Took the tour today and it was excellent! Our guide was amazing explainng the entire facility. Well worth the time to go.

This is a past due review. What more can one say about this place? The reviews already sum it up pretty well. I’ll always remember the emotions my retired Air Force dad had when I surprised him with a visit here. This is the kind of place that really makes you think deep about where we’ve been, where we are, and where we are going.

This is a great gem just south of Tucson, AZ. We had a few hours of free time, and it was around 117 degrees the day that we were visiting Tucson, so we decided to find something to do indoors, and this was a fantastic option!
Our tour guide was an older gentleman, who was extremely knowledgeable, interesting, and funny. We enjoyed every moment of this tour, even though there was a full group at the time we went.
The only downfall was that they really tried to speed us up which didn’t give much of an opportunity for taking photos, but again, it was a full group of people so it took a minute for everyone to shuffle through each of the rooms.
Definitely a place I would visit again, and it’s not an expensive museum (around $ 10/​adult).

One of the last sites available to see.

We enjoyed our visit here today. The admission prices are reasonable, with people 12+ at $ 9.50 and our 11 year old at $ 6. The store is pretty small with not a lot of items, but that’s okay.
We took the 1 hr tour, which was quite interesting. Lee, Hap, and Norm were our tour guides at different parts of the 1 hr tour. Most of it was inside. It started with a 17 minute movie, which was very informative.
Both our kids got volunteered by Hap to help out, which was wonderful and made it even more fun for us. These guys have been around for awhile and I bet they have some stories.
If you have only a short amount of time and want something interesting to do, you can visit this museum, which is the last remaining Titan II Missile site in the world. Pretty fascinating.

If you are in the Tucson, Arizona area this is about 30 mins south. Well worth the time and tour! Check out their website for updated information and be sure to take a camera! Kids age 9 and up would probably enjoy it. You can take younger kids there but they may not understand what they are seeing.

Really enjoy this missile site. Interesting tour of the Titans II missiles during the Cold War. Last one surviving. Volunteers are mostly veterans. They have lots to say. Plan an hour and a half. Our second time.

As someone who has been interested in nukes for a long, long time, it’s been a dream of mine to visit this place. And it lived up to its expectations and then some. First of all, the volunteers are great people and very knowledgable about the facility (nukes in general… not so much. One guy didn’t know what Tsar Bomba was, which was surprising.) Much of the information is technical, such as the kind of fuel used and how accurate the missile was. I find that interesting, some people may not.
But the coolest thing is seeing the actual size of the rocket and being underground in the facility and learning how incredibly paranoid this whole operation was. It’s absolutely insane how destructive the Cold War could have been and we’re lucky this rocket never had to fire.

If you like history, come here.
If you like military stuff, come here.
If you like Cold War stuff, come here.
Of all the missiles that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. had during the cold war the only one that you can check out in person is this one (maybe in Russia, but nobody knows if there is even any such tourist attraction). Yes, there is a very good possibility that this is the only one in the world that you can see. The rest of them have all been dismantled, blown up, and covered up.
So this is your chance to see one of the things that the U.S. had to help deter war. Yes, it was part of the assured mutual destruction — you fire your missiles and we’ll fire ours — nobody is getting out of this alive.
I’ve been twice and both times the tour guides have been awesome. They are all volunteers and are the old dudes who simply love to do these things. Funny and knowledgeable. I’ve tossed all sorts of questions at them and most have had great answers for me (and other questions people have come up with).
I highly suggest taking the extended tour which only happens every so often and has limited availability.
And when you are done, hop over to the Pima Air Museum and see that!

not the best thing you can see in Arizona but if you have a few hours to kill, I would recommend it. I think kids would like to see a missle but they probably will not have any idea what the «cold war» was. it is good just nt fasinating. there are so many great things to see in AZ that I would see other things twice before I see this.

This is truly a unique educational experience. I really enjoyed the basic tour, including the pre-​order film. Being inside the silo was so cool– seeing all the inner workings of the installation was fascinating.
If a member of your party is claustrophobic, I’d think twice about taking them down into the silo, but even my mom, who usually has trouble with small spaces, did fine on this tour.
I would love to return for the extended tour.

I’ve lived in Tucson for 14 years and never visited before. This is going to be a «must see» place to bring visitors from now on.
What a great piece of history sitting in our backyard. Everyone should visit this museum at least one time. It takes about an hour and the volunteer docent will give you a lot of information.

Amazing that this is our history and an amazing preservation effort. No matter your politics, this is a must see place you hear about.
It takes an hour at the least… tours start every few minutes so it wont take all day.
IF you are even thinking of going… do it!

An important part of US history that should not be forgotten. I got super lucky and my tour guide Bob actually worked on Titan II and later Minuteman missile systems. As a result, I was able to get a bit more insight about the actual operations of the sight. I took the first tour of the day and got super lucky and was one of two on that tour. As a result, I got to «launch» the missile.
The tour is basic, first they give you a film about the history and construction of the site. Then you go down to the control center and get some information. Then it’s off to the missile. Then up topside where you can look down and see the whole missile. Hard to get a good picture from there due to the glass, but it’s still an impressive sight.
While it’s probably a once and done kind of thing, what it represents is something we should never forget.

If you have any interest in a Missile Silo, this is the Tour for you!
If not, then you should still find the experience interesting, just not Fascinating.
The Tour Guide was Great and I bet they all are gonna be pretty knowledgable, these Docents are all volunteers and they enjoy the facility they are leading the tour of.
If you are nearby and able, I recommend the Tour. I do not know of another tour of a Facility like this, that has been maintained in the manner in which it was ment to used.
It takes up about 1.5 to 2 hours time, unless you can time your arrival perfectly to show up 10 minutes before tour begins, Tour itself is a little over an hour.

Such a neat place to visit! Got the chance to «turn the key» that was awesome! And seeing the missle was so surreal and interesting. I would have definitely loved to go on the extended tour but that was a bit pricy. But other than that this place is overall fun and educational!

I’ve never really knew this kind of place still exists and can be visited by the general public, until I moved to Tucson. I’ve been meaning to go here and finally I got to bring along the family with me. When we first arrived I though, hmmm this place is tiny and then found out that everything is underground.
We get to tour the underground place and learned how this Titan Missile Program came upon during the cold war. My son was very fascinated about this place, and to top it all off he even get to see the actual Titan II Missile up close (of course with plexiglass partition) We also get to see the whole Missile up top and took lots of pictures to show it off. This is a great place to bring family in and with the very affordable admission fee, it’s all worth the money and the drive there.

This place was pretty awesome!
We happen upon it when were going out to Madera Canyon to hike. I didnt realize it was out in Sahuarita location. It is a very interesting part of history and I am truly glad that we stopped. We are planning on going back and taking our kids because they would love this!
There is not one thing I can say that would be negative.
We would love to go on a longer tour to see more things but I am sure that costs a pretty penny.