Rocky Mountain Arsenal

Aerial photo, 1943
1943
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, south entrance. (photo 1960)

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal was a United States chemical weapons manufacturing center located in the Denver Metropolitan Area in Commerce City, Colorado. The site was completed December 1942,[1] operated by the United States Army throughout the later 20th century and was controversial among local residents until its closure in 1992.[citation needed]

Much of the site is now protected as the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

  1. ^ "History of Rocky Mountain Arsenal" (PDF). Rocky Mountain Arsenal Information Center. May 1980. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2019.