4 installations

Military bases near Colorado Springs, CO

4 mapped installations within approximately 50 miles of the Colorado Springs, CO postal-place center, ordered by straight-line distance.

Understand the installation mix

The locations in this directory span 1 Air Force, 1 Army, 2 Space Force. Those categories describe the map group, while each guide explains the public mission and support context. Joint bases appear in the Joint category.

Peterson Space Force Base

Peterson is east of Colorado Springs in El Paso County. Schriever, Fort Carson and the Air Force Academy are separate regional installations.

Official sources: Peterson Space Force Base overview: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS

Fort Carson

Fort Carson lies in El Paso County southwest of Colorado Springs, near Fountain and the Rocky Mountain Front Range.

Official sources: Fort Carson: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS overview

United States Air Force Academy

The campus is northwest of Colorado Springs beside the Rocky Mountain foothills. The city is the surrounding community for the Academy and other separate military installations.

Official sources: United States Air Force Academy overview: MilitaryINSTALLATIONS

Installation guides near Colorado Springs, CO

Army

Fort Carson

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Approximately 7 miles from the city postal-place center, straight line.

Builds combat-ready expeditionary forces. Supports installation operations and the military community.

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Plan around your actual assignment

A base name or city is a starting point. Identify the gaining organization, reporting destination and support community before choosing lodging or housing. Training sites, Reserve locations and permanent installations may have different arrangements. Use the installation guides for the published destination labels, official contacts and a saveable arrival checklist.

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Coverage and distance method

This is a curated directory, not an inventory of every military property. State lists use the state named in the installation’s listed community and do not describe every boundary or satellite site.

Metro lists include mapped points within 50 miles of an approximate center averaged from GeoNames postal-place records for Colorado Springs, CO. A straight-line radius is not a metropolitan boundary or a driving commute. Installation map points do not identify entry gates.

Postal places adapted from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0.