Abandoned Places – US 395 wander [Part 2] – George AFB Revisited

After departing the Hawes Communication Relay bunker, we back tracked and headed south along US Hwy 395 hoping to find ruins or sites along the way. Unfortunately other than sage brush and Joshua trees, there’s very little to be seen close to this busy highway. Given our lack of success, we swung by the abandoned sections of the former George AFB, now the Southern California Logistics Airport. As mentioned previously, George AFB was closed in 1988 and much of the facilities were left to decay while the community struggled to decide what to do with the vast air base. Much of George is a ghost town existing in various states of adaptive reuse, decay or preparation for the bulldozer.

When first entering the old base area (versus the maintained flight operations area), the first thing you pass through are the remains of the “Wherry” and “Capeheart” styled housing areas. These houses could not be reutilized because some were considered sub-standard for utilities, some had asbestos, and some were considered outside of local building codes. Now they look like a war zone.


Welcome to the battlefield
( Going for a stroll down Memory Lane (14 behind the cut) )