Gate 3 at Redstone Arsenal to be temporarily closed

Redstone Arsenal Visitors Center, located on Redstone Arsenal — The Redstone Arsenal Visitors Center as it sits at Gate 9. (Hville Blast)

If you work on Redstone Arsenal, expect more traffic than usual starting July 6, as Gate 3 will be temporarily closing due to staffing shortages.

Gate 3 is located on Redstone Road SW, and is one of the main entry points for the southern section of Redstone Arsenal. While we aren’t sure exactly when it will reopen, alternate routes have been provided to alleviate congestion.

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Why is Gate 3 at Redstone Arsenal closing?

00450420 c9c4 4570 a957 ae85d84312ca — Additional traffic is to be expected entering Redstone Arsenal now that Gate 3 is temporarily closing. (JimDuncanCville is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Gate 3 is temporarily closing at Redstone Arsenal due to an unforeseen reduction in the Department of the Army Security Guard workforce, combined with strict hiring regulations in place which limit their ability to quickly fill vacancies.

This gate was specifically chosen for closure by the Arsenal because of a traffic study, which revealed that it accommodates less than one-third of the traffic volume seen at other gates. Redstone Arsenal is doing everything it can to resolve this issue as quickly as possible, but right now there is no timetable for Gate 3’s reopening.

The Arsenal deliberately set the closure start date as Monday, July 6, to give employees and visitors adequate time to plan alternate routes, specifically naming gates 1 + 10 as new suggested entry points.