One of the undisputed highlights from my fourth American adventure last month. If I could imagine my ideal location to shoot in, one that ticked all the boxes of things I look for in an abandoned place this one comes pretty damn close to perfection.

This former steelworks closed down suddenly over thirty years ago, leaving the majority of everything inside from the biggest machinery down to the smallest pieces of workers uniform. During it's history it handled some very dodgy material, because of this the site is heavily contaminated and nobody wants to touch the place or do anything with it. I'd never seen any photos from here before we went inside, my friend said that it rarely ever gets explored and this could be for a few reasons - one, its part of an active steelworks with fully operational buildings just metres away from the derelict parts. Two, the derelict parts are not owned by the operational steelworks rather they are owned by the US Government. Three, well perhaps people are just put off by all the scare stories of the site, the reasons for closure, what they actually did in the 1950s evidenced by various bright yellow radioactivity warning signs throughout the buildings, etc etc.

It's a magical, wonderful place to explore.

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Thanks for looking

I can see why you're so taken with this place. It's so rare to see an industrial location affected by nothing but natural decay, with no graffiti or vandalism.

Love the photos!

This is probably my favorite place I have explored! At the very least it was my favorite location from last year. We went in August and the inside was like a greenhouse. I was literally at a loss for words when I walked into the first huge room. We heard about this place from my friends dad who hauled steel out of here back in the 80s. I have found that some of the best locations I get are tips from people outside the urbex community.

This is a location I can return to multiple times and still see something new. I'm glad you got to experience it while you were stateside! If you want to check out my shots I have two threads in the Northeast section.

I love these pictures. It's just all natural decay, no vandalism or graffiti just a good old abandoned structure.

Great shots from a really cool industrial site! The lack of graffiti is amazing.