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I finally knocked something off the bucket list this year with this ghost town. The town was incorporated in 1886 and soon became the most successful mining area in the county. It was almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1899 but was rebuilt to continue harvesting of the abundant minerals such as gold, silver, lead and zinc. The area was mined until 1984 when the EPA deemed the water toxic and it was declared a Superfund site two years later. The town still sits decaying over a mountain cliff as has had some ludicrous redevelopment proposals such as a ski resort for rich people despite the toxicity of the water and soil. Attempts to clean up the land and mines are ongoing to this day. These shots are from three trips over a couple of months. I was really disappointed with the amount of graffiti and vandalism but the town and area itself was astonishing. I'd never seen anything quite like this place. Having explored most of the buildings on the upper side, we located a hotel, shops, bank, apartments, rec center with bowling alley, mechanic shops, laboratory, mills, houses and a hospital. And on two of the trips I found pyrite!
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Windowless Shopping by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Thin Skinned by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Raise The Roof by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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No Society by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Locker Room Talk by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Going Down by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Hotel Colorado II by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Blood Bath by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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It Takes A Village by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Mark It Eight, Dude by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Separate The Church And Skate by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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In and Out by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Let Off The Hook by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Hanging With The Boys by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Escape Plan by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Time To Lean by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Sorry About The Mess by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Rumor Mill by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Blow Your Mind by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Not The Sharpest Knife In The Drawer by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Bowled Over by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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By The Numbers by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Hung Out To Dry by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Face Value by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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In A Bad Light I by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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I Saw A Man That Wasn't There by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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In A Bad Light II by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Behind Bars by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Fork In The Road by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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All The Pieces Fall Out Of Place by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Held Accountable by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Sleep Paralysis by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Window Of Opportunity by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Elevator Music by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Arch Enemy by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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A Counsel Of Despair by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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MTV Cribs by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Eczema by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Hotel Colorado I by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Bull In A China Shop by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Bill Nye's Science Sty by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Little Boxes Made Of Ticky Tacky by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Shadow Theater by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Green Room by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Break The Bank by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
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Hidden In Plain Sight by ⓦeͤ █ iͥ rͬ dͩLiͥ █ G̷̃̊̏̂̓͂̅, on Flickr
~fin~
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Here's the pyrite for the curious
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Beautiful place!
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this place looks awesome!
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These are great! What were the hooks/baskets in the locker room (like #13)?
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Posted by coten22 Beautiful place!
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Posted by xlookex this place looks awesome!
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Thank you both!
Posted by xlookex this place looks awesome!
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Thank you! The baskets are what the mill workers would put their stuff in and they would hang their wet clothes from the hooks. The chains were then pulled to raise the baskets to the ceiling where the heat would rise to allow the clothes to dry and protect their belongings.
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THIS IS SO GOOD. Really cool spot. And, great captures.
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Good shit right here
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5, 13 and 14 get my vote for the coolest The rest are very Awesome Too!
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wow for real
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Phenomenal set! Really cool spot.
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I love everything about this set (though the graffiti is unfortunate, but of course that can't be helped)...great work! Truly an epically fascinating explore. Thanks for sharing! I like thay pyrite, too...I was exploring an old mining town a few years ago and found some chunks of anthracite coal that I ended up keeping.
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Really nice set of pictures, you greatly captured the ambience there. Sad to see so many graffiti on most buildings, IIRC there was already a lot of graffiti 5 years go but I don't remember seeing THAT many during my visit. Those tiny houses were super cool and creepy inside! Edit: typos
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wow, that first pic with the snowy mountain in the background is beautyy love all the rooftop pics, great explore!
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Sweet explore
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Wow cool location and awesome set. It looks like this spot is right in a valley, the mountain views are gorgeous! The locker room in #5+22 is really cool, I've never seen lockers like that before. I actually thought they were some sort of jail cells at first. I love the look of them. The old crib in #37 is neat too. So sad about all the vandalism there though. Thanks for sharing.
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This is a certified bucket list worthy location.. Amazing pictures!
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nice shots!!! Glad to see you still here!
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I believe I was here a few weeks earlier than you were. It was a great place to explore. I'm not sure what's going into that spot now, but a friend of mine stopped there a month or two ago and saw workers everywhere. I wonder if this is the end for the property.
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I don't think it's demo. But, they're like, addressing safety concerns or something. And keeping it for historical purposes. Something like that.
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