Academy Falcon Club (All Ranks) 333-4253The Academy Falcon Club, located on Academy Drive, features lunch and dinner menus, and a popular Sunday brunch. The restaurant is open to all patrons, although only club members receive discounts. The club serves up some of the best prime rib, filet mignon and salmon in the Colorado Springs area. No need to go far for a great meal with great service in a familiar and friendly atmosphere. The club is open for membership to Air Force officers, all enlisted personnel assigned, active, retired and federal civilian employees, grades GS-7, WS-8, WG-12, WL-6 grades and above, and enlisted membership GS-6, WS-7, WG-11, WL-5 or below, including non-appropriated fund equivalents. Facilities are available for meetings, special parties, promotion parties, wedding receptions, coffee socials and buffets for 700 guests. An experienced club manager, club chef and catering manager provide the necessary expertise for a versatile and top-quality menu and event. For more information on catered events call 333-4677. Call 333-4253 for information on fundraisers, dinner theaters, restaurant reservations, cooking demonstrations and much more.
Visitor Center333-2025
The Barry Goldwater Visitor Center offers information about the Academy and exhibits on cadet life and Academy history. The 35,000-square-foot facility has a theater featuring a 14-minute Tlm about the Academy every half-hour, a snack bar and gift shop. A 1/3-mile nature trail from the Visitor Center leads to the Cadet Chapel. The Academy is open to visitors daily, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Visitor Center is open daily, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. For more information, call 333-2025.
Aero Club333-4423The Academy Aero Club is located on the east side of the airTeld. The Aero Club has seven Cessna aircraft that are used for training and recreational Uying. OfTce hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m The club is open for Uying, weather permitting, seven days a week—including holidays, sunrise to sunset. The Aero Club provides introduction to Uight by arrangement. The club primarily conducts Uight training for members to obtain their private pilots license, however, advanced training is also available. All instruction is by FAA certiTed instructors. In addition, the Aero Club provides testing for all FAA required knowledge tests.
Athletic Facilities333-4522The Cadet Field House is the center of many cadet sports activities. It houses Clune Arena, a 5,834-seat basketball arena, a 2,502-seat ice hockey arena, and a multipurpose area consisting of a football-sized Astroturf inTeld and a 1/6 mile track. It also houses training rooms, locker rooms, the ticket ofTce, a gift shop, snack bar and administrative ofTces.
To the west of the Teld house is the cadet gymnasium. This is where most cadet physical education classes are taught. It houses three gyms with basketball courts, varsity volleyball courts, an Olympic-sized natatorium with diving tower and a water polo pool.
Base Fitness and Sports Center333-3531
The base Ttness and sports center is located across from the enlisted dormitories. A $5.1 million renovation was recently completed, adding 20,000 square feet to the facility making it a total of 75,000 square feet.
Recreation activities include:
• Swimming
• Racquetball courts
• Basketball
• Volleyball
• Walleyball
• Outdoor tennis
Fitness activities include:
• Aerobics classes
• Spinning classes
• Martial arts classes
• Stretching classes
The latest weight machines, free weight and cardiovascular equipment are available. The aerobic/ weight room features wireless televisions, allowing exercisers to watch/listen to the channel of their choice. The Academy Health and Wellness Center is across from the civil engineer complex, off Stadium Boulevard near the South Gate. Services include health assessments, smoking cessation, cooking and other classes. A dietitian and physiologist are on staff to provide health and Ttness counseling.
Three racquetball courts and a variety of aerobic exercise machines are available by reservation one day in advance or on a space-available basis. Intercollegiate Athletics 472-1895
One major beneTt of Academy life is the opportunity to watch 27 varsity intercollegiate Air Force teams compete on the national level. Most sporting events are free with the exception of football, men’s and women’s basketball, ice hockey and women’s volleyball. Tickets are sold in the Falcon Athletic Center, located next to the Cadet Field House. Academy staff and faculty members are offered membership in the Athletic Association. Members can buy season tickets at reduced prices. Call 472-1895 for ticket information.
Bowling
333-4709Year-round bowling, seven days a week can be enjoyed at the Academy Lanes Bowling Center located across from the main exchange. Thunder Alley Bowling is its newest program, with bowling in black-light, a spectacular sound system, fog and strobe lights. Twenty computerized lanes have automatic scoring and videotaping. There are glancer cushions and accommodations for children’s special events, a game room, rental lockers, and rental balls and shoes are available. A snack bar features daily lunch specials. A fully equipped pro-shop offers ball drilling for a wide variety of brands, colors and weights. There are also bowling bags, shoes, balls and accessories for sale. League play is available for men, women, mixed youth, seniors, cadets and others during the winter, plus intramural and varsity play. Special programs include scotch doubles tournaments, late night and noontime discount bowling, turkey shoot and ham bake tournaments.
Farish Recreation Area687-9098Farish Recreation Area, the Academy’s yearround recreation facility, is a 42-mile drive west of the Academy. Farish may also be reached by hiking eight miles up the mountain from the Academy. Use of Farish is limited to active duty military members and other eligible personnel. Farish encompasses 655 acres of pristine mountain beauty situated at an altitude more than 9,000 feet above sea level, surrounded in part by the Pike National Forest.
A variety of overnight lodging accommodations are available all year, as well as camping during the summer. Reservations are required and may be made up to one year in advance. A new multipurpose center may be reserved for ofTcial or private functions for groups up to 75 people.
Fishing in three stocked lakes, pedal boat rides, hiking trails, picnic pavilions, volleyball and a playground are popular activities in the summer. Private boating, swimming and hunting are NOT permitted anytime. Winter brings snow tubing, cross-country skiing, snow shoeing, ice Tshing, hockey and broom ball.
Farish is truly a naturalists’ and photographers’ paradise. Wildlife and wildUowers abound. Interpretive talks and outdoor nature activities are scheduled all year and may be customized for special groups such as family reunions, home school classes, scouts and others.
Eisenhower Golf Club333-4375The Eisenhower Golf Club, named after our 34th president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, is a scenic 36-hole golf facility that is home to one of the Air Force’s premier golf courses. On July 8, 1963, President Eisenhower personally dedicated the Blue Course by hitting the ceremonial Trst shot off the number one tee. The driver Ike used is prominently displayed in the Eisenhower Room. The Blue Course is a championship layout designed by Robert Trent Jones. It measures 7,301 yards from the championship tees and is listed in the top 100 designed golf courses built prior to 1963 in the United States. It is usually among the top 10 courses in Colorado ranked annually by Golf Digest Magazine.
The Silver Course, designed by Frank Hummel, opened in 1976 and is a demanding scenic course where a premium is placed on accuracy rather than length. It measures 6,519 yards from the championship tees. Both courses demand shotmaking and great putting to score well. A full tournament schedule each year provides players the opportunity to challenge these courses under tournament conditions.
The Eisenhower facility also provides an excellent driving range, three practice putting greens, two chipping greens, the Tee House snack bar, the Bogey Man’s Lounge, men’s and women’s locker rooms and a fully-stocked pro-shop.
Rampart Range Sportsmen’s Club
The Rampart Range Sportsmen’s Club works with the Colorado State Division of Wildlife on projects around the Academy. The clubhouse is located on the Academy just north of the South Gate near Kettle Lake and boasts a skeet and trap range and horseshoe court. Hunter education classes are taught at the club. The club takes part in “Pathways to Fishing” and the “12 Steps to Fishing for Youth” programs. It hosts an annual Wild Game Dinner and Open House, sponsors Tshing derbies and works with the civil engineering forestry section. Members must work or live on the Academy.
