[nobody_nowhere]

I toured the facility around 2005-6 (iirc). Looks like you still can.

It had a futuristic and lightly post-apocalyptic vibe. The jungle plants were growing out of control, pressing up against the glass panes of one of the habitats. Ants streamed in and out from the desert outside through a crack in a glass panel.

If you check it out (http://biosphere2.org/visit/tour-schedule-hours), you can have a full post-apocalypse vacation by adding a tour of the ICBM museum south of Tucson, the AMARC plane graveyard, Cosanti in Scottsdale and Arcosanti (where you can stay) north of Phoenix.

[jayess]

I highly recommend the ICBM museum in Tuscon. They go through the entire launch process for the tour. It takes less than a minute. It's quite something to imagine that within that short period, the end of civilization would be guaranteed.

[t3hprofit]

Did the ICBM tour w/ a dad a few years back. It's definitely fascinating. 100% agreed worth the time

[LifeLiverTransp]

I still liked the old launch procedures where people where involved and no hyper sonic missiles. Back then, some guy could step back and say - "Okay, its all fucked, so why should i drop one more rock at some poor town in nowheristan?" and give those after us a living chance by behaving reasonable. Today that wont happen, and the machines are that much more likely to just MCAS kill us via a design failure.

[alamortsubite]

Any post-apocalyptic vacation in that area should also include a tour of the dendrochronology lab at the University of Arizona. Also Kartchner Caverns, if you're willing to drive a bit further than the Titan Missile Museum.

[jws]

And while you are enjoying a buffet of extinction level mass homicide, I always recommend a stop at Rooster Cogburn’s Ostrich Ranch between Tucson and Phoenix. Check the internet, they aren’t open every day. But you can spend an hour feeding tiny livestock, giant nightmare birds, and end up covered in lorikeets. (Hint: the fallow deer have gross saliva. Feed them before the Sicilian donkeys. The donkeys will clean you up.)

[nobody_nowhere]

The ostriches are vicious! They had that pail of feed ripped out of my hand and spread on the ground before I could even flinch.

[jws]

Yeah, there are little plastic chutes in the fence for feeding them. I noticed those after I successfully and painfully retrieved my right coding hand from inside the head of one of those nightmare birds.

[notabee]

Don't forget Trinity test site. It's only open for touring one day a year now, I believe.

[schoen]

https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/historyculture/trinity-site.h...

> the first Saturdays of April and October

... so, a week from tomorrow!

[stcredzero]

What's it like when the 1st Saturday of April is April 1st?

[schoen]

That most recently happened in 2017 and they apparently held the tour as usual. You can see people's photos and videos.

https://www.google.com/search?q=april+1+2017+%22trinity+site...

Here's an example of a video by a visitor on that day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aShq03n3i6c