Features
Notable buildings and features in Gold Base include:
- Upper Villas—RTC offices and housing, where David Miscavige and other high level Scientologists live and work
- BonnieView—L. Ron Hubbard's fully furnished mansion, still maintained and staffed in the belief that he will return in another body.
- Cine Castle—main film studio in the shape of a castle, for producing church A/V materials
- OGH buildings—Old Gilman House. Formerly "isolation" space for physically ill staff. Possibly now used for auditing or solo auditing.
- Del Sol—CSI offices, and auditing rooms for staff.
- Staff berthing—four buildings where staff live.
- Qual Gold—Headquarters for Qual Sec, in charge of "quality control" as per the Hubbard organization policies. In practice this mostly means facilities staff auditing and training.
- MCI—This large building is the staff dining hall, known as "Massacre Canyon Inn" from the building's pre-Scientology name when the property was a resort.
Gold Base also has recreational facilities, including basketball, volleyball, and soccer facilities, an exercise building, a waterslide, a small lake, two beaches, and a golf course.
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