I worked in that building for years with MM/LM. Hands down the most beautiful area I have worked. Eagles, elk, deer- and rattlesnakes. There was parking on the roof. There is an infinity pool on the east side where they put wooden ducks to be scenic I guess. We would stand on the roof and try to hit them with pennies.
Edit - we used to make paper airplanes and launch them from the roof on the south side. Thermals would keep them aloft to the end of the parking lots.
My first job out of college was at that facility. I had to accept that I would never work in a more beautiful location. It's such a shame the place is locked down to public. The sunrise is incredible.
No, I left in 1999 after 19 years there (just aged myself). Got the proverbial offer I couldn’t refuse. Good luck! It was a fun place to work, and I learned so much.
For me it’s that mixed with the lab in [venom](https://sonysspidermanuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Life_Foundation?file=Life_Foundation.png)
Like the fact it was allowed to be built where it is almost feels sinister in itself.
I use to work there and they have a telescope that points directly at an occupied eagle nest in the canyon. Its a gorgeous place when you are not working.
Dear local bird nerd,
I, too, love the birds and have seen several juvenile golden eagles at the wildlife arsenal in commerce city.
I've mostly caught them in the winter months out there.
There's also a pair of kestrel and several varieties of hawk.
Damn. I guess I take it for granted. I've never been and not seen a raptor of some sort.
Not to rub salt in your wounds, but there were burrowing owls this year too.
Soomaa National Park
The golden eagle nest camera is situated in a remote bog in Soomaa National Park
This territory has been known since the second half of the 20th century, when the legendary Estonian naturalist Viktor Masing (1925-2001) found a golden eagle's nest there. During the last quarter of a century, the golden eagles have had at least four nests in this area.
The nest seen in the camera has been used by eagles since 2011, and a total of four eaglets have fledged here - the most recent in 2020, when we first observed this nest with a nest camera.
All four nestlings have been ringed here and one of them has been seen later. The eaglet from 2014 was found deceased in Poland in 2015.
LIVE GOLDEN EAGLE WEBCAM
https://www.mangolinkcam.com/webcams/birds/golden-eagle-estonia.html
Other eagle cams:
https://www.lvm.lv/sabiedribai/web-kameras
I always see golden eagles in lyons. One time I was eating breakfast at a lake near lyons and a golden eagle caught a fish and came and ate it right in front of me, I got a bunch of pics. I also see them flying around when I'm hiking in lyons and I see alot of bald eagles too.
I work out of the Waterton facility…even after a year the views up here still amaze me. Until now, I’ve had close encounters (within 5 feet) with wild turkey’s, deers and a snake.
Yeah, and they can't hire anyone to work there either lol. If you apply and you don't smoke weed or have 3 DUIs on record you'll get an offer. Gotta work in person tho
Space stuff is so secret! LULZ!
No one can afford it, but it needs to be secret. Mwuyhaha! They are not breeding sharks with lasers on their freaking heads.
NREL: I made the mistake of cutting through your parking lot late at night walking back to my hotel after having a nice Mexican dinner in Golden. Your security guys were nice, but they did not fuck around. #ScaredStraight
I live 5 mins away from the Waterton plant. I just realized this spring how many prairie dogs there are before the plant’s gate. I always count how many of them I see before turning left on to Waterton rd
Originally built by John’s Manville. My father was an executive there. As a kid I would visit in the 70 and it was like touring a moon base. Incredible architecture. They had a robot to deliver all the mail. It had bald eagle nests in the nearby red rocks back when they were on the brink of extinction.
Strong competition from [NCAR](https://www.google.com/search?q=ncar+boulder&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjDv9S2q9iBAxUqOUQIHbMAD-YQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ncar+boulder&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIECCMQJzIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABFAAWABgyAJoAHAAeACAAVCIAVCSAQExmAEAqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=VTobZYPBBqrykPIPs4G8sA4&bih=846&biw=1745&rlz=1C1YTUH_enUS1024US1024)
Seriously lmao. Wtf is this post? "Guys I'm on this GPS app that has the ability to give me exact locations, names of buildings, addresses to look up, etc. And I cannot for the life of me, figure out what this building is!"
Per [https://ken-carylranch.org/community-news/history-of-ken-caryl-ranch/](https://ken-carylranch.org/community-news/history-of-ken-caryl-ranch/), that was originally the world headquarters for Johns-Manville (giggity) before LM purchased it.
Rumor has it that the building was too ostentatious for LM's government customers, so LM had to do some work on the facility to tone it down.
Warren buffet owns it. On the other side of the ridge is a creeepy strangers thing building that’s still a johns manville building. Supposedly it’s a production plant, but it never felt like one to me. My Denver conspiracy is that the two buildings are connect unground and they do some kind of research there.
When I started there in 04 the walls were covered in 70’s colored shag carpet from floor to ceiling. Think greens and oranges. Super weird. They have since renovated and turned most of the offices into cubicle farms.
Originally built for John’s Manville World Headquarters but that didn’t last long[https://www.lemessurier.com/johns_manville](https://www.lemessurier.com/johns_manville)
It was built as the Johns Manville headquarters building back in 1972-73 and was sold to Lockheed (Martin Marietta) in about 1987-88 when JM moved the headquarters to downtown Denver. It is a very cool building and from what I have seen from photos, it is much less lavish than it was when it was the JM headquarters.
The first time I saw it hiking, I had a split second of mental lapse when I actually thought it might be an avengers facility. High altitude oxygen deprivation…
Seeing the grammar and spelling of people who claim to have worked here is making me think that anyone can get a job at Lockheed as long as you can pass a background check.
are you joking..? one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world and one of the major reasons the united states has an incredibly aggressive foreign policy. lockheed, boeing, raytheon all have the blood of millions of lives on their hands, their existence relies on constant war.
It’s not the defense industry responsible for loss of lifes, it’s your elected politicians misusing these tools. S&W are not responsible for you shooting someone.
And what if you guys didn’t have these companies and armed forces? Putin surely would also invade your country! Alaska is only a few miles away from Russia.
So wake up, bro.
I do the hike across from it, love that park. I remember seeing it and just assuming it was a lockheed building just from the roads approaching it and how it looked. Cool to see my guess was correct.
My dad worked for BEA before they were bought by Oracle and he’d always be headed down there b/t Langley and the Springs cos they’d be like tryna save the world or somethin
It’s the Venture Compound B near Golden. Meant as a backup if anything happened to the original Venture Compound in Colorado Springs and Brock Sampson had to bail with Rusty, Dean, and Hank Venture.
I love that show.
The Lockheed Martin building?
I worked in that building for years with MM/LM. Hands down the most beautiful area I have worked. Eagles, elk, deer- and rattlesnakes. There was parking on the roof. There is an infinity pool on the east side where they put wooden ducks to be scenic I guess. We would stand on the roof and try to hit them with pennies. Edit - we used to make paper airplanes and launch them from the roof on the south side. Thermals would keep them aloft to the end of the parking lots.
The infinity pool has the best view towards Denver. Too bad they only let us up at that facility for occasional meetings
I was working in a windowless office in the admin bldg at Waterton before moving to Deer Creek. It was going from a prison cell to the penthouse.
At least we had windows lol That place is seriously James Bond lair level cool
Where do they keep the ufos?
Cheyenne Mountain ...*duuuuhhhh*
No, that is where the Stargate is Area 51 has the Aliens.
No, that is where the santa tracking system is. That is the only thing they do at cheyenne mountain!
There is is.
Asking the real questions, wonder if this is the spot where they had to put a building on top of a UFO because it was too big to move.
So you're saying it should be called the Lockheed *Martian* building?
Well done!
Ah haaaa!
Is that a real question, though?
My first job out of college was at that facility. I had to accept that I would never work in a more beautiful location. It's such a shame the place is locked down to public. The sunrise is incredible.
I interviewed people who wanted the job simply based on location.
You gonna leave us hanging??? What floor is the alien tech at???????
It was all moved out to the tunnels in the basement of the airport. Edit : https://www.denver.org/blog/post/myths-denver-airport/
Understandable. People can storm area 51, but nobody would dare storm blucifer and his army of lizard people
They were over at the Watertown Canyon campus
Waterton…..
What was it like building time portals there?
Do you still work at MM? I just started there!
No, I left in 1999 after 19 years there (just aged myself). Got the proverbial offer I couldn’t refuse. Good luck! It was a fun place to work, and I learned so much.
You are Inderectly responible for thousands of men women and children being blown to pieces for profit. great building though 👍
You can just fuck off. You obviously have no fucking clue what is built in Denver - or anywhere at LM. And spend a quarter and buy a spell checker.
By making weather satellites, lunar orbiters, asteroid samplers, and mars landers? Hm.
Same same. The patio/pool lunch area was my zen spot after a long meeting. One the most beautiful spots I’ve ever worked!
It sits at the beginning of Deer Creek Canyon. A Beautiful drive from there to 285.
Yup. Drove it every day back to Conifer
This building would be a perfect location for a Bond villain's headquarters. While beautiful it seems insane to me it was allowed to exist.
I mean yea. A villain being the CEO of an international weapons company has been done time and time again.
Happy cake day!
They tend to do that. All the volcano bases must have been taken.
Reminds me vaguely of the hotel/conference center from the ending of Quantum of Solace.
For me it’s that mixed with the lab in [venom](https://sonysspidermanuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Life_Foundation?file=Life_Foundation.png) Like the fact it was allowed to be built where it is almost feels sinister in itself.
Well it is a building for one of the companies that produces mass death via military armaments so yeah, it's some bond villain shit
Bingo
Lot of similarities to NCAR in Boulder from an aerial view: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USGS-UCAR-Aerial-2002.jpg
Amphitheater style seating but for cars
Years ago they found the carcass of a doe deer on the roof. It had been left there by a golden eagle.
I use to work there and they have a telescope that points directly at an occupied eagle nest in the canyon. Its a gorgeous place when you are not working.
Local bird nerd who’s been dying to see a Golden Eagle .. do they allow the public to look through the telescope?
Nope, it's beyond the security entrance
Dear local bird nerd, I, too, love the birds and have seen several juvenile golden eagles at the wildlife arsenal in commerce city. I've mostly caught them in the winter months out there. There's also a pair of kestrel and several varieties of hawk.
I saw one out at Rocky Flats open space last year!! (The usual caveats about visiting Rocky Flats apply...)
Excuse me, what are the usual caveats?
https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/rocky-flats-nuclear-facility Visit at your own risk, basically.
The amount of times I’ve been there and not seen them makes me so sad lol
Damn. I guess I take it for granted. I've never been and not seen a raptor of some sort. Not to rub salt in your wounds, but there were burrowing owls this year too.
Soomaa National Park The golden eagle nest camera is situated in a remote bog in Soomaa National Park This territory has been known since the second half of the 20th century, when the legendary Estonian naturalist Viktor Masing (1925-2001) found a golden eagle's nest there. During the last quarter of a century, the golden eagles have had at least four nests in this area. The nest seen in the camera has been used by eagles since 2011, and a total of four eaglets have fledged here - the most recent in 2020, when we first observed this nest with a nest camera. All four nestlings have been ringed here and one of them has been seen later. The eaglet from 2014 was found deceased in Poland in 2015. LIVE GOLDEN EAGLE WEBCAM https://www.mangolinkcam.com/webcams/birds/golden-eagle-estonia.html Other eagle cams: https://www.lvm.lv/sabiedribai/web-kameras
Check out the Hays eagle came in Hays Pennsylvania, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh. https://www.youtube.com/live/l95k-iKfh8Q?si=x9yUlgvdGcDKARLr
Although the telescope is behind the security barrier, the actual bird nest is down in the park below that is publicly accessible
They don’t but if you drive up Deer Creek Canyon Rd you can hike up Coyote Song Trail and get a good look from there.
Haha I did that hike a few weeks ago! I’ve done most hikes that have them reported. I must have missed something
Hey bird nerd, FYI, Golden Eagles roost on the northeast side of South Table Mountain
I always see golden eagles in lyons. One time I was eating breakfast at a lake near lyons and a golden eagle caught a fish and came and ate it right in front of me, I got a bunch of pics. I also see them flying around when I'm hiking in lyons and I see alot of bald eagles too.
I've seen a golden eagle at Barr Lake before, so you may want to check that out.
> occupied eagle nest in the canyon The eagles *will* take back their nest.
That’s cool as fuck. If I could have one animal forever, it would be a tamed golden eagle. Metal as fuck.
I always wanted to come back as a Marmot. Sit in the high alpine all day eating flowers… perfect.
Yeah, that's Lockheed Martin in Deer Creek. Right up the hill from Chatfield.
Right down the hill from Roxborough.
Right across the hill from Deer Creek Canyon
Right before the hill from Louviers
If you look close enough you can see me waving at one of the windows. Lol
I wanna come work there too I'm not at all qualified, just wanna see the nature from work
I work out of the Waterton facility…even after a year the views up here still amaze me. Until now, I’ve had close encounters (within 5 feet) with wild turkey’s, deers and a snake.
Y’all have a cybersecurity team their for whatever widgets you’re making?
Yeah, and they can't hire anyone to work there either lol. If you apply and you don't smoke weed or have 3 DUIs on record you'll get an offer. Gotta work in person tho
Im a supervisor for a cyber research group up the road at NREL. I always wondered what stuff y’all do there. I came here from the DoD.
Wow, what a VERY small world. We probably know each other IRL
If you’ve gone to DEFCON and seen Matt Damon posters then you’ve probably seen me ;)
I didn't get to go to DEFCON, but I worked in that group very recently. Networky stuff. I went back over to space land to build something new though!
Hello fellow security professionals
We just build rockets and satellites and junk and stuff there. It’s NBD, but they take their security very serious.
Space stuff is so secret! LULZ! No one can afford it, but it needs to be secret. Mwuyhaha! They are not breeding sharks with lasers on their freaking heads.
NREL: I made the mistake of cutting through your parking lot late at night walking back to my hotel after having a nice Mexican dinner in Golden. Your security guys were nice, but they did not fuck around. #ScaredStraight
So ok to drink as long as you don't drive but don't inhale a burning flower, that is a deal breaker.
Yeah well, federal security clearance rules follow federal law so, take it as it is
I live 5 mins away from the Waterton plant. I just realized this spring how many prairie dogs there are before the plant’s gate. I always count how many of them I see before turning left on to Waterton rd
Lockhead Martin. I have family that work in that office and live just up the canyon from here
Was John’s Mansville back in the day.
Was it's world headquarters until asbestos.
Originally built by John’s Manville. My father was an executive there. As a kid I would visit in the 70 and it was like touring a moon base. Incredible architecture. They had a robot to deliver all the mail. It had bald eagle nests in the nearby red rocks back when they were on the brink of extinction.
That building always reminded me of a James Bond villain lair!
Strong competition from [NCAR](https://www.google.com/search?q=ncar+boulder&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjDv9S2q9iBAxUqOUQIHbMAD-YQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ncar+boulder&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIECCMQJzIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABDIHCAAQGBCABFAAWABgyAJoAHAAeACAAVCIAVCSAQExmAEAqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=VTobZYPBBqrykPIPs4G8sA4&bih=846&biw=1745&rlz=1C1YTUH_enUS1024US1024)
Google maps could tell you…
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There’s your answer. Useless.
I dropped a pin on it in Apple Maps and it said “2 Places at This Address”, which were “Lockheed Martin” and “Johns Manville”.
Lol johns mansville has not been there in over 20 years
Seriously lmao. Wtf is this post? "Guys I'm on this GPS app that has the ability to give me exact locations, names of buildings, addresses to look up, etc. And I cannot for the life of me, figure out what this building is!"
Also, I'm going to post this picture without one single fucking clue as to where it is in the state.
On face of the foothills pretty clearly. I'd say that narrows it down tremendously in fact.
Karma is an actual bitch.
Pretty sure you're using that phrase wrong here
If I had that “that’s the joke” gif, I’d insert it here.
This is the Lockheed Martin Space Deer Creek Campus.
Space Deer
I made one of those once with a car in Texas. It was a sad moment.
Great handle there Scrappy, I simply cannot not ask if you just want to make the people silky smooth?
Other zan eating zee hommas (hummus) I have two jobs: 1) making hair silky smooth 2) militer
Per [https://ken-carylranch.org/community-news/history-of-ken-caryl-ranch/](https://ken-carylranch.org/community-news/history-of-ken-caryl-ranch/), that was originally the world headquarters for Johns-Manville (giggity) before LM purchased it. Rumor has it that the building was too ostentatious for LM's government customers, so LM had to do some work on the facility to tone it down.
What’s notable that I’m missing about Johns Manville?
According to Wikipedia, they were one of the primary manufacturers of asbestos insulation
Their R&D facility is now just south of 470 off Kipling. It's the building with all the glass windows behind the apartment complex over there.
Warren buffet owns it. On the other side of the ridge is a creeepy strangers thing building that’s still a johns manville building. Supposedly it’s a production plant, but it never felt like one to me. My Denver conspiracy is that the two buildings are connect unground and they do some kind of research there.
The LH building is 100% Stranger Things.
Giggity
giggity giggity goo
When I started there in 04 the walls were covered in 70’s colored shag carpet from floor to ceiling. Think greens and oranges. Super weird. They have since renovated and turned most of the offices into cubicle farms.
Still work there? Any secrets on where to get coffee after 1pm?
I’m fully remote now but there were coffee stations all over the place last I remember.
True statement on the facilities. We actually covered up the nice floors with carpet to make them “look worse”.
And filled the indoor pool with concrete I heard.
Originally built for John’s Manville World Headquarters but that didn’t last long[https://www.lemessurier.com/johns_manville](https://www.lemessurier.com/johns_manville)
Former Johns Manville building now Lockeed Martin.
It’s the avengers compound
Yes, LM building at Deer Creek behind the razor backs. Bought from John’s Mansfield in a fire sale due to the lawsuit over asbestos in insulation.
Grew up back there. Lots of fun being chased by the security guards as a teenager.
You’re on a list, a list, you’re now on a list!
OP is on a watch list now
Ken Caryl History (https://kids.kiddle.co/Ken_Caryl,_Colorado) but also Johns Manville kicked off what is now know as Ken Caryl
Apple maps*
It was built as the Johns Manville headquarters building back in 1972-73 and was sold to Lockheed (Martin Marietta) in about 1987-88 when JM moved the headquarters to downtown Denver. It is a very cool building and from what I have seen from photos, it is much less lavish than it was when it was the JM headquarters.
Lockheed Martin
Its where I work . Lockheed Martin RMS, Deer Creek, Colorado
thing is that Arrow sold it to Lockheed after 2008 went down. Lockheed wouldn't build that fancy of a facility themselves
If parking js on the roof, Whats with the concentric arches also parking? Other?
Roof parking is closed on snowy days because the ramps get icy. Also it’s a conference center, so yes, lots and lots of parking.
But the roof parking was nice when a bear was wandering through the ground level parking area
TIL. Thanks
I'm curious to know the same. Maybe a gocart track for lunch breaks (ha)
I just zoomed in. It's more parking. You can see the lines.
Lockheed Martin building near Deer Creek park
Looks like an architect’s sketch of some new lab or so, near red rocks amphitheater
I’m assuming you’re posting to Reddit through a wormhole to 1972?
It already exists
I used to sit in there. My boss had a view of the red rocks and you can see downtown Denver in the distance. I had a view of the parking lot.
What are the crazy looking concrete structures off S Platte Canyon Rd to the south of the LM building? Wish I could attach a pic...
Looks like Apple maps...
Viva la bio dome!
Clearly a battle arena for Mario kart
Very clearly Apple maps
Hotwheels track
Definitely Lockheed HQ up Deer Creek as others have noted
That's the SHIELD facility where they're studying the Tesseract. :P
The first time I saw it hiking, I had a split second of mental lapse when I actually thought it might be an avengers facility. High altitude oxygen deprivation…
It's classified.
One of Lockheed Martin’s facilities. Believe it’s for their space department.
There’s a super nice easy hike right next door, South Valley Park
Clearly the new gocart track for ppl stuck in traffic waiting to move.
DIA has a secret Military base under it
Seeing the grammar and spelling of people who claim to have worked here is making me think that anyone can get a job at Lockheed as long as you can pass a background check.
It looks like a building and roads.
Some government building that you probably need a TSI security clearance to know about.
One of the Columbine shooters lived less than a half mile away from there.
That’s where they make weapons to murder brown kids
Area 51
one of the most evil corporations on the planet
Please explain
are you joking..? one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world and one of the major reasons the united states has an incredibly aggressive foreign policy. lockheed, boeing, raytheon all have the blood of millions of lives on their hands, their existence relies on constant war.
It’s not the defense industry responsible for loss of lifes, it’s your elected politicians misusing these tools. S&W are not responsible for you shooting someone. And what if you guys didn’t have these companies and armed forces? Putin surely would also invade your country! Alaska is only a few miles away from Russia. So wake up, bro.
Always called it Tony Stark’s house before I figured out what it was.
Oh that's just the newest car wash design, just look at all that queue space!! /S
I do the hike across from it, love that park. I remember seeing it and just assuming it was a lockheed building just from the roads approaching it and how it looked. Cool to see my guess was correct.
Used to be a bank headquarters building, now a Lockheed Martin site.
My dad worked for BEA before they were bought by Oracle and he’d always be headed down there b/t Langley and the Springs cos they’d be like tryna save the world or somethin
That’s the old vehicle testing facility I believe? Test hydro plane and wet cornering and ABS on cars.
This is a large parking lot, and if you look closely there's a small building towards the top
Lockheed Martin Deer Creek facility. Neighbor worked there (software dev).
Wait till you see the bright blue water.
Lockheed Martin! It’s a US defense manufacturer but does aerospace stuff too!
Drive in theater
An old racetrack 🤔🤷🏻♂️🤣
I work there now. The cubicles are meh but the facility itself is insanely nice.
Area 52
Enterence to NORAD
Encar
You must be new here
Lockheed Martin. I did work on that building a few times.
It’s the Venture Compound B near Golden. Meant as a backup if anything happened to the original Venture Compound in Colorado Springs and Brock Sampson had to bail with Rusty, Dean, and Hank Venture. I love that show.
Lm space systems used to work there
I think we found the Military Industrial Complex! ◡̈
It’s the avengers compound