Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Park commemorating the Manhattan Project across three sites.
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Coordinates: 35°56′13″N 84°23′38″W (35.9370, -84.3940) · Open in OpenStreetMap
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The Manhattan Project National Historical Park, established on November 10, 2015, is a joint effort between the National Park Service and the Department of Energy. It honors the Manhattan Project across three sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Hanford, Washington. The Department of Energy retains ownership and management of the properties, while the National Park Service handles visitor centers, rangers, and interpretive programs.
Sites
The park protects many structures associated with the Manhattan Project, though only some are open for touring. At Hanford, the B Reactor National Historic Landmark offers bus tours by advance reservation, and other preserved sites include the previous Hanford High School, the Hanford Construction Camp Historic District, Bruggemann's Agricultural Warehouse Complex, and the White Bluffs Bank and Hanford Irrigation District Pump House. In Los Alamos, the visitor center is at 475 20th Street in downtown Los Alamos, open Friday through Monday from 10 am to 3 pm.
Three areas on Los Alamos National Laboratory property—Gun Site Facilities, V-Site Facilities, and Pajarito Site—are open only via special Department of Energy bus tours. In Oak Ridge, the American Museum of Science and Energy provides bus tours of the X-10 Graphite Reactor, Buildings 9731 and 9204-3 at the Y-12 complex, and the East Tennessee Technology Park on the K-25 Building site. The Oak Ridge History Museum focuses on the social impact of the Manhattan Project on Oak Ridge.
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