The final stop on my most recent American adventure, and an absolute beast. This is in the top five, maybe three, biggest locations I have ever explored. It's probably the second largest industrial abandonment in America, after the Packard Plant in Detroit. Over two million square feet of factory space spread over five enormous buildings linked by sky bridges, falling apart and decaying since the closure of the entire factory in 2002. My friends who live in the city tell me tales of what it was like in the old days when it was full of machinery, but then the scrappers and pikeys found it and practically cleared everything that hadn't been taken when it closed down.

This is a shame and, to be honest, this was originally not on our radar at all until the previous day when, during our string of fails at various churches we realised we were very close, having spotted the faded logo of the plant on the side of a building nearby. I knew how big the place was having found it on Google Maps some time previously but EsseXploreR had no idea just how enormous the place was, he was open-mouthed as we drove around the outside, and we both noted the incredibly easy way in. After having a string of fails at various schools this time, we both decided to head here as we knew it was a certainty on getting in. I wasn't expecting much from the inside, and thought we may spend an hour or so there before we got bored, but after half an hour or so we were fully engrossed in one huge explore and enjoying it immensely. After a few hours we had worked our way to the top of the building at the back of the plant, furthest away from where we'd entered, and looking out across the buildings was amazing seeing just how huge this place was. We even worked out how to get down into the boiler house utilising, you guessed it, another sky bridge taking us over the active car park of one of the few buildings that had found a subsequent use.

All in all, an absolutely brilliant way to spend my final day. I think we saw maybe two-thirds of the place overall, so by no means did we do it all.

I'm already planning my next trip, which will hopefully be my biggest and longest one yet.

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Every building in the photo below is part of the same plant, we entered way over the front side of the tall one in the background.

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Hot damn, nice pics!

I could spend a few days in a place like this. Awesome shots, I enjoyed every one of them!

The reflections in 5 and 8 add a nice sense of depth. Loving the colors in 15, too.

Beautiful shots

What is #20? Anyone know?

Nice reflections

It looks like a giant compressor of some type, probably air.

Posted by blackhawk Beautiful shots What is #20? Anyone know?

#20 is some kind of turbine or compressor manufactured by Ingersoll-Rand. The red upright part once housed an electric motor but it has been completely removed.

Southern Wisconsin, by chance?

Nice work from a favorite place of mine.
It's like Disneyland, you need a few days to get through it thoroughly.

Posted by Aran Southern Wisconsin, by chance?

Not even close :p

It's a shame you and Ed couldn't come out to play with us this time Krush, next time I'm in the city it has to happen...

Posted by mookster Not even close :p

Ah. Oh well, if you're ever in the area, there's a shuttered assembly plant in Southern Wisconsin. I've never been there myself, but I've seen articles.

Love the reflection shots 15, 16, and 17....Another cool set from you.

Posted by mookster Not even close :p It's a shame you and Ed couldn't come out to play with us this time Krush, next time I'm in the city it has to happen...

Absolutely dude!!!!!!

Love this place. Great shots. I've been there a handful of times and there's things in this set I've never seen. Such an explorers playground.