From time to time, I go ghost town hunting... to satisfy all of my photography, outdoors and hiking joys all at once. I'll post about my escapades, in hopes that it will help other ghost town hunters/photographers.
Last weekend, I went to Scranton, Utah which is a short-lived mining town in what I believe is in the Tintic Mountain range. From what I found, it was settled in 1908 and grew to about 100 people. It mined zinc and lead, and it pretty much dried up by 1918. So the structure in the photo is at most 100-years-old!
It's exact GPS location is on the Wikipedia page, or on the last link, that takes you to the Google Maps page.
I had read several different accounts of what was left. There were housing structures still standing in several accounts, like the old one here on ghosttowns.com. However, rest assured, those aren't there anymore. It seems a fire may have laid waste to any of the actual residential portion of the old town.
However, what remains are one structure (which seemed to be a part of the mining production), several open mines (which were covered with rebar), some old mining equipment and a lot of tailings.
While there isn't a whole lot left of this town... it's a gorgeous area. It's a steep, narrow canyon that opens up to a nice prairie where Scranton used to be. It was a nice a drive and fun hike!
The rest of my photos from Scranton are in my set on flickr. Feel free to check them out!
3 comments:
you found it!
I know! I'm just as surprised!
Around 1947 it was an operating mine and all that was there was the mine a boarding house and a cabin. My father worked there and they would mine the ore, put it in a railroad car and ship it off to Eureka. They got paid by the amount of ore that was mined and it was split between the miners
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