ACCESS TO AND Tours of Cadet Area For AOG Members

Responding to a number of requests, the AOG has created a program to allow AOG members escorted access to the cadet area.  We will make every effort to arrange necessary escorts whenever contacted, but we can assure escorts if given 48 hours notice.

Visits with Cadet, USAFA Staff Members and Departments
AOG members who wish to visit a cadet, Academy staff member or department should contact the cadet/staff member/department directly so they may arrange for your escort.

AOG Customer Service will be pleased to provide telephone numbers or email addresses of individuals or departments.

Tours
Most of the Academy is open to all tourists. You may visit the Visitors Center, Chapel, Arnold Hall, the Field House and Hall of Excellence without escort. The Cadet Area (Terrazzo) has always been closed to the general public, including graduates, but now has a fence around it. Special access is required to tour the Cadet Area. The AOG will make every effort to provide tours of the Cadet Area at times requested, but on occasion, AOG staff may not be available to conduct them. If you are not a member, AOG Customer Service will be pleased to sign you up for membership.
Tours will be conducted at 0900 and 1300 hours during normal duty hours and duty days, and they will last two hours. Cadet activities within the cadet area and weather, though, could cause cancellations of tours on certain days.

Tours can begin and end at either Doolittle Hall or the Visitors Center, as the touring grad and his or her escort mutually agree.  From the Visitors Center, a touring party will:

• Proceed to the Chapel Wall;
• Cross the Terrazzo in front of Sijan Hall, going to Mitchell Hall;
• Continue to the lectinar area on the south end of Fairchild Hall;
• Progress along the east side of Fairchild Hall, past the parade ground and the base of the ramp to the McDermott Cadet Library;
• Cross the Terrazzo next to the Graduate War Memorial and flag pole, along Vandenberg Hall;
• Continue along the Class Wall;
• End the walking tour at the Visitors Center.

Although visitors may not view the noon meal formation from the Terrazzo, they can see it from the Chapel Wall, and they can view the chapel without escort.

Even though grads are not permitted inside the cadet dormitories during these special individual tours, grads may enter them during class reunions, Parents Weekend, Graduation Week and Appointee Parent Tours in April.