The Pinetree Line radar station at Cold Lake closed down on 1 August 1991. After 42 Radar Squadron vacated the station, the site sat abandoned and neglected until 1998, when the Cold Lake Museum was opened.
All of the stations five buildings (with the catwalk that joined them), plus the guardhouse and the pump-house remain. The former Operations building contains displays profiling the Air Force, RCAF Station/CFB Cold Lake and 42 Radar Squadron, including a full-size Height Finder radar unit. The other buildings feature the Oil & Gas Interpretive Centre, Alberta Heritage Museum and the Aboriginal Museum. None of the three radar towers or radomes remain today.
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Updated: February 27, 2005