FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii ~ 17 JUNE 2025

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii

The Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands is a U.S. naval facility and airport located five nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Kekaha, in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States.

PMRF is the world's largest instrumented, multi-dimensional testing and training missile range. The US military and subcontractors favor its relative isolation, ideal year-round tropical climate and encroachment-free environment.

 Barking Sands is the only range in the world where submarines, surface ships, aircraft and space vehicles can operate and be tracked simultaneously. There are over 1,100 square miles of instrumented underwater range and over 42,000 square miles of controlled airspace. The base itself covers roughly 2,385 acres.

The base includes a 6,000-foot runway with operations and maintenance facilities. It has roughly 70 housing units and various recreational facilities for those who can access the base.

The base has support facilities at Port Allen, Makaha Ridge, and Koke'e State Park. The base also uses a portion of the nearby island of Niihau for a remotely operated APS-134 surveillance radar, an 1,100-acre Test Vehicle Recovery Site, the Perch Electronic Warfare site, multiple EW Portable Simulator sites, and a Helicopter Terrain Flight training course.

The Navy is currently working with the State of Hawaii and Kauai County to ensure the long-term viability of PMRF. For many decades, the land adjacent to PMRF was used for sugarcane fields, which was wholly compatible with operations at PMRF.

Since Kekaha Sugar's closure, the Navy has become wary of "encroachment", incompatible developments, that might occur on the land next to the base. In order to ensure that PMRF can continue to safely conduct important research and training operations in the future, the Navy and some citizens of Kauai are seeking to permanently preserve the land adjacent to PMRF for agricultural purposes.

Under the PMRF Agriculture Preservation Initiative the Navy would have the roughly 6,000 acres of land adjacent to PMRF preserved solely for agricultural use. Although the Navy has stated that it would like to lease about 300 acres of land, it has also stated that its main goal is not to purchase more land but to merely ensure the land continues to be used for agricultural purposes.

Learn More About Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands HERE!!

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[PROCON]

Thanks for tonight’s Road Trip, Lauren!

[USAF1985]

I was on an exercise to Barking Sands after Hurricane Iniki passed through in the 90s. Only place to sleep was the motor pool in a garage with no roof. A cot, sleeping bag and mosquito nets. It was utterly fantastic at night listening to the roaring surf a few hundred yards away, and seeing a blanket of stars above you. Best two weeks of my assignment in Hawaii.

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[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening PROCON!

[laurenmarlowe]

Great story, thank you USAF1985!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy spel, and thank you!

*HUGS*

[luvie]

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Barking Sands, Hawaii ~

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[radu]

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[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *Hugz*

Hope everything’s going well. All settled back in after you nice, long vacation?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

You are welcome, sweet lauren! ;-)

Geez! I hope that the other divas in the Canteen do not get jealous! LOL

[radu]

Howdy, PRO.

How are things out your way? Getting some breaks in the heat so you don’t mind heading out the door?

[left that other site]

I’ve been there!

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[Huskrrrr]

Thanks, Lauren!

[PROCON]

Hiya radu!

It's been hot here but nothing to slow me down, still cool A/C in my car and home thankfully.

Just a bunch of erands this week and a few Doctor's appts.

I hope all is well your way!

[radu]

Good. Sounds like it hasn’t been oppressive .... as long as the AC keeps working! LOL

Kinda the same here but only because we’ve had a lot of clouds and rain to hold the temps down. It’ll be oppressive in a couple of days though. Summer’s getting set to kick butt.

[luvie]

Good to see you this evening, lauren! Hope you didn’t have to hit the ground running when you got back to work.

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

Did you get a good rain this afternoon? I sure wish we would. Instead, our temp is still 90 degrees with 35%humidity, which is high for us.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

It poured HARD not long after I came inside this evening. Now it’s sprinkling and it looks like that will go on for a while. I think I’ll go to the other house to move the big potted plants out of the carport. Their leaves need a good shower to wash the dust off.

My skin shrivels at the thought of your 35% humidity. LOL That’s dry to us. We’re looking at 65% to 80% here the next week ...... when it isn’t raining. That’s with temps in the upper 80s to mid 90s. Not ready for this.

[luvie]

Your plants will thank you for the bath! LOL!

I just went out for a bit. It’s pretty warm, but there is a nice breeze that feels pretty good. Dottie was out there chasing bugs. LOL!

She had a juvenile Katydid last night, though I didn’t know what it was at the time. Hubby had to tell me. I wish it had lived. I don’t think I’ve heard one in decades. She just ruined my only chance. There ARE no crickets. When it’s quiet here, it’s VERY quiet.