Camp Hale, Colorado

During World War Two, the Army’s 10th Mountain Division trained in the mountains around Tennessee Pass, as part of its preparations for alpine warfare in Europe. Based out of Camp Hale, five miles north of the pass, the area continued to be used for cold weather and high altitude military training after the war. From 1959 to 1965 the CIA trained Tibetan Freedom Fighting troops there. In 1966 Camp Hale was closed and turned over to the Forest Service, and its remaining buildings were removed.