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San Luis Valley Regional Airport/Bergman Field serves Alamosa in south-central Colorado from a high-altitude plateau at over 7,500 feet, making it a useful VFR waypoint and airline gateway for the San Luis Valley. The field offers a long, lit hard-surface runway with an ILS alongside two unpaved crosswind strips, all monitored through a straightforward CTAF/UNICOM setup rather than a control tower.
San Luis Valley Regional Airport/Bergman Field lies at Alamosa, Colorado, and carries the ICAO identifier KALS and IATA code ALS. Sitting at a field elevation of 7,539 feet, it is a high-altitude aerodrome that supports both scheduled airline service and general aviation traffic, giving simulator pilots a chance to practise density-altitude-aware operations in a mountain-valley setting.
The airport is located at Alamosa, Colorado, at coordinates 37.4351 N, 105.868 W. It does not have a control tower; traffic is coordinated by pilots on the local CTAF/UNICOM frequency, with Denver Center providing enroute radar service in the surrounding airspace.
KALS has three physical runways. Runway 02/20 is the primary hard-surfaced, lit runway at 8,499 ft (runway 02) and 8,498 ft (runway 20), and is equipped with an ILS on runway 02. Runway 11/29 is a dirt strip of 6,847 ft (runway 11) and 6,848 ft (runway 29). Runway 07/25 is a shorter dirt strip measuring 4,945 ft in each direction.
Weather is available on the ASOS at 135.175 MHz. Denver Center provides enroute radar service on 128.375 MHz, with Denver Radio available on 122.15 MHz. Airport traffic is coordinated on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz. An ILS is published for runway 02.
As an aerodrome without a control tower, arriving and departing traffic should make position calls on the CTAF/UNICOM frequency of 122.8 MHz to coordinate with other aircraft in the pattern.
San Luis Valley Regional Airport/Bergman Field continues to combine scheduled airline operations with general aviation use, supported by its long lit primary runway with ILS approach capability on runway 02 and its two unpaved secondary runways for lighter traffic.
