These rocks have ears

Fake rocks hide cell-phone towers

It might look like the beginnings of another Stonehenge going up along U.S. Highway 287 north of Fort Collins, but it’s actually a disguised cell-phone tower.

Motorists who may have noticed the “rock building” project going up on a ridge just east of the highway and a few miles north of the Colorado Highway 14 intersection probably wondered if the structure was someone’s idea of a joke.

But it’s no joke, said Garett Wohlberg, strategic project manager for SBA Communications in Denver.

“Stealth rock is what we call it,” Wohlberg said. “We’re looking at stealth sites all the time…