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Are there really sites undisturbed enough for you to see how they did repairs or disposed of their trash? That sounds amazing. SW-America is definitely on my b
by trompetenaccoun 5y ago
Are there really sites undisturbed enough for you to see how they did repairs or disposed of their trash? That sounds amazing.
SW-America is definitely on my bucket list and I love ghost towns. In Western Europe it's hard to find any abandoned place older than a couple of years that's preserved well. I guess it's because the next city is never very far and there's always uncultured idiots whose idea of fun it is to vandalize places for no reason.
- yencabulator 5y agoTo put a different perspective on that: The remaining Native American ruins in the Southwest are roughly the same age as European castles.
- finiteseries 5y agoYou’re in for a treat, it’s within a timescale of 200 years or so, but definitely. The climate, terrain, distances, ownership, and uselessness of most of the land involved really encourage preservation, albeit rotted out and rusting.
- trompetenaccoun 5y agoRotted out and rusting is beautiful, I love it. Next best thing to getting a time machine and going back :)
- rurp 5y agoIt's incredible what's been left behind and still in decent shape. As you've found, any place with a lot of human traffic tends to get destroyed by vandals but fortunately the SW deserts are massive and hold a shocking amount of old mining roads that lead to well preserved locations. A spot that requires a modest amount of effort to reach tends to filter out the idiots. Another favorite site I didn't mention are the old mining structures. Image search for something like "old mining headframe" to see the sort of thing I'm talking about. There are a lot of those structures still standing from many decades ago.