PCMS also provides excellent dismounted maneuver terrain in the rugged canyons and arroyos that empty into the nearby Purgatoire River. Live-fire training is restricted at PCMS to 50-caliber and below at established firing ranges. PCMS accommodates a full range of maneuver training, including brigade-level, force-on-force maneuvers. PCMS is the primary maneuver area for Fort Carson, located about 150 miles to the southeast off of Highway 350.

In 1983, Fort Carson acquired 235,300 acres of training land on the west side of the Purgatoire River in southeast Colorado, called the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site. Range Control, located in building 9550 at the intersection of Butts Road and Route 2 (Wilderness Road), can provide complete information on training areas and range use. Consult Fort Carson Regulation 385-63 for a complete listing of ranges, training areas and other facilities. There are 56 training areas and 84 ranges located at Fort Carson, which support a variety of training. Tank, Bradley and Stryker gunnery is typically conducted on Multi-Purpose Range Complex North for the preliminary tables and the Digital Multi-Purpose Range Complex South for qualification gunnery and advanced firing tables. The large impact area supports mortar firing, cannon artillery, aircraft bombing and Multiple Launched Rocket System firing.

There are two impact areas at Fort Carson-a small non-dudded impact area (in the north) for small arms and a large dudded impact area (in the south), which supports artillery, tank, Bradley, Stryker and other gunnery ranges. Weapons training includes small arms qualification and tank, artillery and helicopter gunnery. There are lowlands, wetlands and creek drainages as well as mountainous and hilly areas.įort Carson accommodates a wide variety of facilities and infrastructure for maneuver (both mounted and dismounted), airborne and weapons training. There are open prairies and heavily forested areas. The training areas include a wide variety of different terrain and vegetation types. The installation extends from the main post, which is just south of Academy Boulevard, to its southern perimeter, which lies just north of the communities of Pueblo West and Penrose.įort Carson consists of a total of 137,404 acres including the cantonment area (main post) and training areas downrange. Fort Carson is bounded on the east by Interstate 25 and on the west by Colorado Highway 115.

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