abandoned mining towns

**McMaster** · 03-09-2009, 11:20 PM

I have had a fascination with abandoned places for a short time and I want to visit a 'ghost' town that you need to hike out to and has many houses and buildings.

Does anyone know of any of these towns or do you know where i can find a list of towns that are not national/state parks?

I am talking 100% abandoned.

**CasterTown** · 03-09-2009, 11:35 PM

go to Bodie:

I'm pretty sure the residents got vaporized by aliens because books and shit are literally still on the shelves in the houses.

**DjMattyD** · 03-09-2009, 11:36 PM

Originally Posted by CasterTown

go to Bodie:

+1
Just don't take anything from Bodie cause it's cursed.

**GnarKill1029** · 03-09-2009, 11:42 PM

if only chriths dick could be a town

**McMaster** · 03-10-2009, 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by GnarKill1029

if only chriths dick could be a town

successful troll is successful.

Been to bodie, its a national/state park and you are restricted to viewing the inside of the buildings with a tour guide. bodie = tourist destination...I want to go to a town in the middle of the desert that hasnt had anyone go near it for 20ish years

**DjMattyD** · 03-10-2009, 12:14 AM

Chernobyl

**McMaster** · 03-10-2009, 12:20 AM

hah, maybe one day when i have the money to fly over there and miss a few weeks of work and then a few more weeks of work for radioactive treatment. but places like Chernobyl would be cool minus the radioactive part. and preferably within 600 miles of socal

**v3man** · 03-10-2009, 01:35 AM

this actually sounds like a lot of fun. i might hafta give this a try...

a simple google entry of "california ghost towns" gave me this site.. i dont know if you've seen it yet or not but there's a lotttt of entries in there

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/ca.html

**Kude** · 03-10-2009, 02:59 AM

Originally Posted by DjMattyD

Chernobyl

beat me to it

**Utah** · 03-10-2009, 05:29 AM

You obviously haven't seen enough horror movies...

**CaboWabo** · 03-10-2009, 05:31 AM

Silent Hill.

**xsjado916** · 03-10-2009, 08:31 AM

csumb...built on abandoned ft.ord military base..

**MI_Skim** · 03-10-2009, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by DjMattyD

Chernobyl

wow that place is a deserted city. what happened there?

**Chrith** · 03-10-2009, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by MI_Skim

wow that place is a deserted city. what happened there?

really? the worst nuclear accident in history.

a little more then 600 miles away but still really cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

**VaSkimer18** · 03-10-2009, 12:19 PM

http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten...._home_page.htm

Not all of them are towns. You can go back to the home page to view other states.

**Richard** · 03-10-2009, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by DjMattyD

Chernobyl

a while ago i read something about how the environment is around chernobyl lately and it's wildlife is actually flourishing in a more healthy way than ever before, kinda weird, but really beautiful, it's got a lot of rare species that are really working up on their numbers

also they are now offering group trips to chernobyl, *suit included*

**MDskimmerMAtt** · 03-10-2009, 01:42 PM

Im kinda intrested in going to this abandoned hospital called glendale hospital but im scared shitless to go so i doubt i ever will

**king.kevin** · 03-10-2009, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by McMaster

I have had a fascination with abandoned places for a short time and I want to visit a 'ghost' town that you need to hike out to and has many houses and buildings.

Does anyone know of any of these towns or do you know where i can find a list of towns that are not national/state parks?

I am talking 100% abandoned.

my friend is from marryland and there is an abandoned insane asylum that you can go threw......its not a national or state park
pm if you need details

**ejb** · 03-10-2009, 02:24 PM

theres a sweet old abandoned i forget what kinda factory up in aiken s.c.

or if you really want to have fun, come to barnwell south carolina and roam around the savannah river site for fun. it's where they make/used to make, not sure what they do exactly nowadays, the uranium for nuclear weapons and they also perform nuclear weapon research there. it's still operating, we drive through it every now and again for baseball, about 13 miles wide and every mile or less theres a "no stopping or standing over whatsoever unless emergency" and there are cameras everywhere within the trees and do not enter signs everywhere and tons and tons of side dirt roads, pretty sure there are guys just chilling in the woods waiting for shit to happen too.

the best part is that there are also signs that have little almost communist slogans like "winning together means working together"

it's a really creepy place, driving through there at night blows. also until about 10 years ago, they gave you a specific amount of time to get through, idk how exactly they measured it but if you didn't they would come look for your car.

**Ammy** · 03-10-2009, 02:29 PM

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12340

**Chrith** · 03-10-2009, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by narwhal

The company I work for is building Joint Intelligence buildings in the middle of no where in Western Virginia. And to get to the job site we have to drive through a similar area, Ed. And I stopped once to take a call. I look down at the floor board for a second and look up..there's two MP's standing at both windows with handguns out. Really freaky.

We've started to build alot of strange stuff out there. And it's funny because no one can get a master plan set. Each company gets only part of the plans and job sites are covered with thousands of cameras.

west virginia or western virginia. i had family that lived in west virginia and driving through there always seemed like there was something weird about it. backwoods areas then massive mines, huge buildings in the middle of nowhere.

**Kude** · 03-10-2009, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Chrith

really? the worst nuclear accident in history.

a little more then 600 miles away but still really cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

not for me.. that place is so messed up.

**MDskimmerMAtt** · 03-10-2009, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by king.kevin

my friend is from marryland and there is an abandoned insane asylum that you can go threw......its not a national or state park
pm if you need details

i will give you the details its like 20 minutes from my house its scary as shit. Its called glendale hospital and it is super illegeal to walk through there.

**can-can** · 03-10-2009, 03:17 PM

20 minutes from your house? no way. that place is a short drive through the woods from your house. i thought you lived an hour or two away from me.

**Chrith** · 03-10-2009, 03:28 PM

Originally Posted by MDskimmerMAtt

i will give you the details its like 20 minutes from my house its scary as shit. Its called glendale hospital and it is super illegeal to walk through there.

whats the difference between illegal and super illegal. does that means there is such thing as super rape

**CaboWabo** · 03-10-2009, 03:29 PM

That Centralia place is what Silent Hill was based off of...didn't think that mine fires from the 60's were fo real.

That's just creepy.

**DJ-NJ** · 03-10-2009, 03:54 PM

hills have lots of eyes..

**MDskimmerMAtt** · 03-10-2009, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by can-can

20 minutes from your house? no way. that place is a short drive through the woods from your house. i thought you lived an hour or two away from me.

you go to hebron right?

**Ammy** · 03-10-2009, 04:03 PM

shit dude, that glendale looks sketchy after looking into it some more. that woul definitely be a thrill if i didnt die of a heart attack while i was in there. matt have you gone in?

**Kude** · 03-10-2009, 04:27 PM

http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/byberry.htm

Heard so many stories of this place, it's crazy.

**McMaster** · 03-10-2009, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by AmmySkim24

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12340

I tired to get in there a month or so ago, there was a guy walking around with a night stick and wouldn't even let us get on the front lawn. I plan on going back again and trying to get in later, I think we tried to get in way too early. 11pm or so, probably go back around 3am to try again.

**VaSkimer18** · 03-10-2009, 05:07 PM

a lot of spray paint has been put into that place

**relay** · 03-10-2009, 05:18 PM

I'm pretty sure a few kids from my photography class a few years ago broke into Glendale to take pictures. At least I'm pretty sure it was Glendale. Wherever it was, I don't plan on going there. I'll see if I can track down some of the pictures they took.