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(This wall of photos is from 2016/05/28, 06/04, and 06/11)
What I've codenamed Sportscar Mills is the largest place my friend and I have ever explored, a title I expect it to retain for quite a while. It took us eleven total hours across three separate trips to explore every building from basement to bell tower. I'm terribly out of shape and came home brutally sore each time, but hot damn if this place didn't blow away nearly everywhere I'd been before (mostly houses and underground coastal forts).
Trip 1:
01: Extensive Ruin
02: Gauge
03: Skate Here
04: The Door
05: Fire Lane
06: Everything at Any Angle
07: The Decay Above
Trip 2:
08: Down Under
09: Holyoke Hercules Turbine
10: Outlet
11: Amalgamation
12: Overview
13: Pressure Controller
14: OFF
15: Cursive Control
16: Dropoff
17: Up Top
18: Shoes
19: Handpainted
20: Gauge
21: Meteor
22: Sodden Wreck
23: Black Hole
24: And Yet
25: Huddled
26: The Bell
27: The View
28: Asbestos Coating
29: The Distant Building
30: Long Skybridge
31: Plywood Walls (We found this to have been destroyed when we came back on our third trip.)
32: Next Target
33: Crater
34: Magma Texture
Trip 3:
35: Preservation
36: Spider
37: Greenroom
38: Dying Light
39: Crackle Floor
40: NOTICE!
41: Altar
42: Attic (Side 02)
43: Rancid (How's THAT for a toilet?) (I almost back into this.)
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Ah so cool to see someone else's perspective on this place. There were so many interesting unique things to see here, I loved this spot. My favorite part, for sure, was Betsy 💗
I love your shots, especially 1, 12, 30, 32, 41, and 42. Thanks for posting! 
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Place looks awesome. I love mills.
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whoa! this place looks so cool. it is massive, which i love. the pressure controller is a cool gauge too with the curved lines. another example of awesome retro graphic / industrial design. some of the fallen out floors look scary, but otherwise, what a playground!
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Looks like a whole lotta awesome! Only 250 miles from my front door. That's what, five hours at least?
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Posted by Little Sister
Ah so cool to see someone else's perspective on this place. There were so many interesting unique things to see here, I loved this spot. My favorite part, for sure, was Betsy 💗
I love your shots, especially 1, 12, 30, 32, 41, and 42. Thanks for posting!
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Betsy (and everything in there) was a wonderful surprise during our first trip since for the first two hours we only saw the empty main buildings. #41 is one of (if not definitively) my personal favorite out of all the photos I took there.
Posted by randomesquephoto
Place looks awesome. I love mills.
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Posted by deals
whoa! this place looks so cool. it is massive, which i love. the pressure controller is a cool gauge too with the curved lines. another example of awesome retro graphic / industrial design. some of the fallen out floors look scary, but otherwise, what a playground!
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So far mills have been our most successful explorations. They're so big and were active for so long that there's always something there to see no matter how far along they are with demolition or being turned into condos. And yeah, some of the floors were scary. The floor in #30's skybridge was squishy at our end and had holes at the other, and the floors in the building of #33 felt nothing short of treacherous when we crossed them (and wound up in a dead end).
It's being turned into apartments or a hotel or something though, so we crammed as much time into the place as possible while we still could. Not sure how many buildings they're rehabilitating this time round.
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I went here a while ago, but a recent drive-by tells me it's not so vacant anymore. They must be turning it into an addition. Sadly, I still haven't posted all my pics from here. 
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Wow! That place is amazing!
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Posted by General Zod
I went here a while ago, but a recent drive-by tells me it's not so vacant anymore. They must be turning it into an addition. Sadly, I still haven't posted all my pics from here.
https://www.flickr.../72157645621150036
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Awesome photos, saw some places in your album that I hadn't see while I was there. A fourth trip might in order....
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Posted by SaladKing
Awesome photos, saw some places in your album that I hadn't see while I was there. A fourth trip might in order....
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I might as well join you, dude. I am only a few miles away from it.
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Drove by today (because I live in the area).
They are DEFINITELY doing work on it. It is an active work site.
However, one could probably check it out after hours or on the weekend with no issues. I know I have.
Just a heads up!
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Such a fantastic spot. No graff is always a bonus. The shot of the 2 computers against the wall was so trippy.
You might want to crop in on #40 if you want to keep this location a bit more low key.
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Posted by OnlyFootprints
Such a fantastic spot. No graff is always a bonus. The shot of the 2 computers against the wall was so trippy.
You might want to crop in on #40 if you want to keep this location a bit more low key.
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Hot damn, good catch. Fixed.
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Posted by General Zod
I might as well join you, dude. I am only a few miles away from it.
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That would be sick. I'm waiting on a response from my friend to see if he wants to tag along too.
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