Crooked Creek Station (CCR)
 
OVL tour
Barcroft tour
Barcroft observatory tour
Summit lab tour
"Virtual Reality" panoramas showing Crooked Creek facilities and surrounding area
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The Crooked Creek station is located in the Bristlecone/Limber Pine forest at an elevation of 10,200'. This is WMRS' most modern facility, and sleeps 60 persons at full capacity. The facility includes a classroom, computer room with broadband internet, a backup satellite internet connection, and a smaller meeting room. A full kitchen and dining facility operates during the open season, generally between June 1 and October 31. There are also four lab spaces that can be renovated if needed (see WMRS staff).
View of Clarence Hall Lodge facilities from the North (6-19-04)
View of main buildings (dorm, lodge, lab rooms) from parking lot. 5-22-04
When you enter the lodge, the main downstaris room is the dining hall. 5-04
The dining hall is often used during the day as a work space. The kitchen is in the rear.
The classroom takes up most of the upstairs level of the lodge building. The room to the right of the chalk board has been converted into a computer lab (see description) with two computers and a printer. Wireless internet is also available throughout the station.
Two computers linked to the internet via broadband "T1" connection is located in the computer lab, and there is a lounge area with TV/DVD/VCR. There is also a satellite modem for backup internet communication.
Upstairs, the lodge also has two bedrooms and a bathroom.
An outdoor deck with picnic tables is located betweent the lodge and the dorm.
The dorm has six sleeping rooms and 4 bathrooms, and sleeps 38 total. This is dorm 1, one of the downstairs rooms.
Upstairs in room A are 4 beds, plus a large closet.
The Bristlecone cabin actually consists of four separate cabins.
Cabin B has a kitchen
Each has its own bathroom.
Four lab spaces have been prepared, and can be equipped to meet individual researchers' needs.
This is the lab building from the east.
The back of the lodge building. The shop and garage area is to the left.
View north of the station, showing the storage building, pond, and the propane tanks.
   
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