There are some questions that are best answered by coming to experience the honor and tradition for yourself.

The Academy is open to visitors between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. daily, If you DO NOT have active duty or retired military identification, you must show driver’s license, registration and proof of insurance. Your vehicle will be searched before you’re allowed entry to the Academy.

SUMMER TOURS

During the summer, while most cadets are away from the Academy on leave or training programs, we offer briefings at the Academy Visitor's Center.

These briefings, beginning in mid-June, are offered Monday through Friday, except holidays.

Activities include:

• Academy video
• Admissions briefing
• Question and answer period with an admissions representative

Call ahead to ensure a briefing is scheduled and to determine the time of your briefing.

ACADEMIC YEAR

We conduct prospective candidate tours for high school students on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays during the academic year except for holidays and final exam/training event periods. For 2007-2008, we will begin tours on 20 August 2007 through 16 November 2007. We will resume tours on 14 January 2008 through 2 May 2008. The dates we will not be conducting tours are as follows:

FALL 2007 NO TOUR DATES:

SPRING 2008 NO TOUR DATES:

Tour Schedule:

The tour begins at 8:45 a.m. at Arnold Hall where students and accompanying family members will meet an Admissions representative who will escort all attendees to a location where a one-hour admissions briefing is given to everyone. At 10:15 a.m., students will be paired up with a cadet to “shadow” until 4:00 p.m. The students will attend classes, visit the dorms, tour the athletic facilities, and have lunch in the cadet dining hall (for which there is a $6.00 fee, exact change is appreciated).

Also at 10:15 a.m., the family members are taken on a separate tour which will last approximately one hour. Upon completion of this tour, family members can take part in an optional Cadet Chapel tour. Family members are then directed to places that are open to the public that they may visit until the students return at 4:00 p.m. Family members will meet the students in the afternoon at Arnold Hall. Dress for the tour is business casual with comfortable walking shoes.

Reservation Guidelines

In order to schedule a student for a tour, we require the following information at least ten days in advance of the date you wish to visit our campus:

1. Date of requested tour (Please check “no tour dates” above)
2. Number of total guests in party
3. Student's name/Gender
4. Address
5. Home phone number and secondary number where you could be reached if necessary
6. E-mail address
7. Name of high school that student attends
8. Year of HS Graduation
9. If you are a senior/spring semester junior, would you like to meet with a counselor prior to the tour?
10. Any additional relevant comments?

Please send this information along with the date you wish to tour the U.S. Air Force Academy, to usafa.tours@usafa.edu and we will be happy to schedule the tour for you. You may also call 1-800-443-3864, or directly to our office at 719-333-2233.