[4] The site was brought into the public eye in 1974 by The Washington Post and the Associated Press, which mentioned the facility following the crash of TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727 jetliner, into Mount Weather on December 1 of that year.

[7] The facility is located near Purcellville, Virginia, 51 miles (82 km) west of Washington, D.C.[8] The site was originally opened as a weather station in the late 1800s.

[14][15] According to a letter to the editor of The Washington Post, after the September 11 attacks, most of the congressional leadership were evacuated to Mount Weather by helicopter.

[8][16][17] Between 1979 and 1981, the National Gallery of Art developed a program to transport valuable paintings in its collection to Mount Weather via helicopter.

[18] The first video of Mount Weather shot from the air to be broadcast on national TV was filmed by ABC News producer Bill Lichtenstein, and was included in the 1983 20/20 segment "Nuclear Preparation: Can We Survive", featuring 20/20 correspondent Tom Jarriel.

The documentary, first broadcast on October 23, 2001, features interviews with engineers and political and intelligence analysts, and compared The Greenbrier and Mount Weather to Saddam Hussein's control bunker buried beneath Baghdad.

It is also mentioned in the movie Thirteen Days, as well as CW's TV series Arrow; Season 4 Episode 22 "Lost in the Flood".