Near Howardsville, Colorado, the Animas River gets quite wide. This is near the Little Nation Mill, which is worth a stop if you’re traveling north from SIlverton. It’s also near the former Gold King Mine, which “blew” in 2015 and flooded the Animas River with toxic mine water.
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The St. Louis County Sheriff constantly patrols the property looking for trespassers.
The main buildings were mostly interconnected and in good condition. The dry air helps to preserve the wooden structures.
Chester Creek, where it was forced to dip below the circa-1970s I-35 tunnels.
These rails used to connect to those inside the Santiago Tunnel. Now they dangle above tailings.
My first night on Minneapolis’ Lighthouse–now an old picture and distant memory… I still remember the exhilaration and the view of the city off one edge of the roof and the Mississippi River over the other.
The end of the peninsula where Consolidated D was built, aka General Mills A, used to hold a Northern Pacific freight depot. These are part of the ruins of it.
It is unclear when the ‘Superior Warehouse Company’ sign was put up, but it was likely around 1916-1917, when maps indicate it served as a dry goods warehouse, operated by Twohy-Eimon Mercantile Company. The Sivertson sign was likely added in the mid-1980s. In this image I tried to preserve the colors the bricks turn at sunset.
A huge steel tank, one of several left over, left over from either the Ashland Oil or Allied Chemical periods.
Almost all of the doors and windows on the ground floor have been boarded, leaving the ground level very dark.