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UER Forum > Journal Index > Zack's Urban Log > Stone Crusher (Viewed 2000 times)
Stone Crusher
entry by Zack 
3/2/2006 7:10 PM

The Stone Crusher, from what I'm told, is an old stone crushing facility located up in the mountains behind Georgetti Park. They used to grind up rocks to make concrete back in the day. It's been abandoned as far back as I can remember. I've probably been there fifty times in my eighteen years of life. But, there was no record of it on this site... so I thought I should fill everyone in on The Stone Crusher.

The site isn't too bad of a hike from where I live. It probably takes about half an hour for me to get up there. Nevertheless, I wanted to have fun with it. So early yesterday morning I started getting my gear together. Good hiking shoes, water, food, camera, extra battery, cell phone(for gps marking), and a giant solar cell just because it was cool. The hike there wasn't bad at all, despite there being snow everywhere. I didn't see any people.

Stone Crusher is composed of two separate concrete buildings. The larger of which has two(maybe 3) floors. While the smaller is taller and broken into two big upper sections and two smaller, garage like lower sections. The whole place is covered in graffiti, everyone in Rutland knows about Stone Crusher. The big building has a roof, but the smaller one doesn't. It's possible to get onto the roof if you can climb the back wall. The bottom floor of the larger building is filled with old charcoal from fires, garbage, and scrap metal. One thing caught my eye. There were two large cement blocks on the floor. They were just about the right size to cover trap doors. It'd take two, maybe three people with tools to move these. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a secret basement to Stone Crusher. After looking around the first floor, I headed up to the smaller second floor. Nothing much up there, just some holes in the ceiling and floor. I did manage to get onto the roof. It took me a few tries due to snow being everywhere. Again, nothing too cool up there. Just holes I could fall through and die.

The second building is tricky to get into, at least the upper sections. There are only two small windows into the compartments, probably too small for me to squeeze through. I looked through into the compartments to find a sizable tree growing in one, and a cool grated thing in the other. The only feasible way in seems to be through the open roof. A rope ladder would work if you can secure it up there. Or maybe a big tree leaning against it. Looking in the lower part of this building revealed graffiti, a lot of graffiti. There's also some sort of drain from the upper section, still nothing a person could fit through.


According to my phone, this is where Stone Crusher is.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=43.62010+-72.99507&t=h&ll=43.620108,-72.995052&spn=0.031192,0.084715&t= h


Two buildings, the one I refer to as the larger is on the left.
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This is the first floor of the larger building.
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There's a lot of this at Stone Crusher.
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Entrance to the secret basement?
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I didn't think it was THIS old.
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Rear view of the larger building, second floor. The middle post is what I used to climb up
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Rear view of the smaller building.
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Inside the right section of the smaller building.
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P.S. I love 100k upload limits.


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