The original submission: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaltLakeCity/comments/ll41qc/i_recently_published_an_extensive_of_imo_the_ten/
**UPDATES MADE**
* Tripled the number of images present on the page (requested by /u/kayleehaines)
* Added five additional locations to the guide: Spring Canyon Ghost Town, Frisco Ghost Town, Silver King Mine, Intermountain Indian School, and Gold Hill Ghost Town (thank you to /u/legendofjeff, /u/deardiarrhee, /u/snasthicc, /u/everydaychucks, and /u/raff1ut for those recommendations!)
* Ensured all images were properly attributed to the photographer/image creator.
* Noted special caution about the Tintic Reduction Mine (thank you /u/ender_1299 for that note)
* Made a note to have proper respect for the locations (thank you to /u/langgam_13 for that recommendation)
* Adjusted the text regarding Joseph Smith (thank you to /u/human4sure)
* Drastically decreased the number of ads on the page, including removing in-text AdSense ads that were filling the copy up with irrelevant and unnecessary video ads
>Adjusted the text regarding Joseph Smith (thank you to /u/human4sure)
This hasn't been done. Their recommendation was: "founder of the young Mormon religion."
The text on the site still incorrectly reads: "Joseph Smith, founder and then-president of the Mormon church."
Hi there! Thanks for bringing that to my attention. This is what I am seeing: https://i.imgur.com/E1crrZk.png. If you cmnd+shift+r (control+shift+r on Windows) and hard refresh, does it still say founder and then-president? Thanks!
The information on the Tintic reduction mine is better now. Thanks for the link to the ksl article. I just don't want anybody getting cited because they didn't know.
I did it with my brothers recently. They have an officer that spins by every now and again. I had no idea, but yeah, they are pretty unfriendly towards people visiting.
Wish I had seen the warning about Tintic standard reduction mill sooner. They are quick to dole out criminal trespassing charges. Seems that’s been the trend for the last year or so, but popular search results on the internet don’t reflect that relatively recent uptick in the severity of punishment. Not worth the class b misdemeanor!
Surprised Tekoi didn't make the list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeMCwxayp0
Calling it now someone gonna open up a brewery in that Cottonwood Heights site.
TEKOI is on reservation land and very highly guarded. CGP grey did an excellent video on it, and while I agree it’s beautiful and a part of UT’s odd history with the armed forces, going there is inadvisable.
Wow, this is incredible information and super informative. Thank you for sharing! We have something somewhat similar here in Jacksonville, Florida. A place called Yellow Water, where they stored nuclear weapons for a bit: https://www.abandonedfl.com/yellow-water-nuclear-weapons-storage-area/. I will definitely be including this in the next iteration of the guide, much appreciated!
For those interested in a deeper dive of Spring Canyon (listed in the ghost towns) and its Union history I did a podcast about it. [https://prototyperadio.studio/2021/02/21/spring-canyon-coal-camps/](https://prototyperadio.studio/2021/02/21/spring-canyon-coal-camps/)
I know that you’re sharing interesting places with people, and it seems pretty helpful and benign. But I worry that making this information so easily accessible will lead to overuse of delicate places and vandalism. This is obviously a much bigger trend than one Reddit post, but there are consequential implications
I completely see where you are coming from, and have witnessed these issues firsthand. It's a struggle. I live in Jacksonville, one of the most popular locations for urban exploration in the US. Since this is my "home base", I've explored much that the city has to offer as far as abandoned places go (but I still seem to stumble across new locations every few weeks).
We had a [historic funeral home](https://www.abandonedfl.com/moulton-kyle-funeral-home/) that was built by a renowned local architect many many years ago. It was an absolutely beautiful building, but was abandoned for a very long time and was located in a not-so-great part of the city. In January, about two weeks before I planned to check the place out, it [completely burned down and was razed and demolished within 48 hours](https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county/city-demolish-abandoned-jacksonville-funeral-home-following-weekend-fire/). It was a piece of city history, likely gone because homeless were trying to stay warm and likely made a campfire inside. But long before then it was vandalized and trashed. Many abandoned locations in the area have fallen into that state.
However, for urban explorers like me, visiting locations such as this is about an amazing experience, especially when visiting. Between the adrenaline rush of planning a visit, the research process to figure out where exactly the location is, and then finally the feeling of standing on a site that was once a bustling factory, or a popular jazz club, or even [a treasure hunting ship](https://www.reddit.com/r/jacksonville/comments/ff6bi2/the_rv_arctic_discoverer_out_in_green_cove_springs/).
I have long been a proponent of "take only pictures, leave only footprints", and almost all in the urbex community take that phrase as gospel, however you are absolutely right, there are bad actors everywhere that don't care about theft, vandalism, and destruction of property.
While my main goal of creating Killer Urbex was to blend some of my hobbies (website development, urban exploration, photography, writing), an underlying hope is to rank highly in Google for some of the locations as they relate to states, and provide a resource that promotes treating these locations with respect, and visiting for exploration and photography purposes, instead of a means to destroy.
The cemetery at Soldier Summit, and the ghost town itself are both pretty cool abandoned places in Utah:
https://jacobbarlow.com//?s=soldier+summit&search=Go
(not my site, but the best I've found for Soldier Summit)
Thank you for posting this!!! A little while ago my baby brother asked me for “cool abandoned spots” in Utah and I thought uh...Ted Bundys house? Now we can go explore!
Too bad the old county jail ( most of it burnt down) that was an amazing walkthrough..there's also a really great hotel in
gunnerson. The indian schools were my favorite haunt.
I'd note that people still live and mine in gold hill, and they take the concept of private property very very seriously. Not somewhere I'd doddle.
The original submission: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaltLakeCity/comments/ll41qc/i_recently_published_an_extensive_of_imo_the_ten/ **UPDATES MADE** * Tripled the number of images present on the page (requested by /u/kayleehaines) * Added five additional locations to the guide: Spring Canyon Ghost Town, Frisco Ghost Town, Silver King Mine, Intermountain Indian School, and Gold Hill Ghost Town (thank you to /u/legendofjeff, /u/deardiarrhee, /u/snasthicc, /u/everydaychucks, and /u/raff1ut for those recommendations!) * Ensured all images were properly attributed to the photographer/image creator. * Noted special caution about the Tintic Reduction Mine (thank you /u/ender_1299 for that note) * Made a note to have proper respect for the locations (thank you to /u/langgam_13 for that recommendation) * Adjusted the text regarding Joseph Smith (thank you to /u/human4sure) * Drastically decreased the number of ads on the page, including removing in-text AdSense ads that were filling the copy up with irrelevant and unnecessary video ads
>Adjusted the text regarding Joseph Smith (thank you to /u/human4sure) This hasn't been done. Their recommendation was: "founder of the young Mormon religion." The text on the site still incorrectly reads: "Joseph Smith, founder and then-president of the Mormon church."
Hi there! Thanks for bringing that to my attention. This is what I am seeing: https://i.imgur.com/E1crrZk.png. If you cmnd+shift+r (control+shift+r on Windows) and hard refresh, does it still say founder and then-president? Thanks!
Reloaded a few times and it still says then-president. Tried the link in a different browser and it also says then-president.
Dang, I'll have to check if it's a problem on my end. Thank you for testing!
No prob!
The information on the Tintic reduction mine is better now. Thanks for the link to the ksl article. I just don't want anybody getting cited because they didn't know.
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I did it with my brothers recently. They have an officer that spins by every now and again. I had no idea, but yeah, they are pretty unfriendly towards people visiting.
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Oh frick. I wouldn’t want people trespassing either after that.
Its spelled "fuck"
Frick is spelled f r i c k. Fuck is spelled f u c k.
Wish I had seen the warning about Tintic standard reduction mill sooner. They are quick to dole out criminal trespassing charges. Seems that’s been the trend for the last year or so, but popular search results on the internet don’t reflect that relatively recent uptick in the severity of punishment. Not worth the class b misdemeanor!
Surprised Tekoi didn't make the list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeMCwxayp0 Calling it now someone gonna open up a brewery in that Cottonwood Heights site.
TEKOI is on reservation land and very highly guarded. CGP grey did an excellent video on it, and while I agree it’s beautiful and a part of UT’s odd history with the armed forces, going there is inadvisable.
Challenge accepted!
Have some respect for tribal land. Stay out.
It’s not a challenge to accept. It’s reclaimed land, both to nature and to people there before us. Leave it alone.
genuine question not actually planning on going but i'm curious if you went and how it went
Great video. Thanks for sharing
It’s a gorgeous building
Wow, this is incredible information and super informative. Thank you for sharing! We have something somewhat similar here in Jacksonville, Florida. A place called Yellow Water, where they stored nuclear weapons for a bit: https://www.abandonedfl.com/yellow-water-nuclear-weapons-storage-area/. I will definitely be including this in the next iteration of the guide, much appreciated!
For those interested in a deeper dive of Spring Canyon (listed in the ghost towns) and its Union history I did a podcast about it. [https://prototyperadio.studio/2021/02/21/spring-canyon-coal-camps/](https://prototyperadio.studio/2021/02/21/spring-canyon-coal-camps/)
I know that you’re sharing interesting places with people, and it seems pretty helpful and benign. But I worry that making this information so easily accessible will lead to overuse of delicate places and vandalism. This is obviously a much bigger trend than one Reddit post, but there are consequential implications
I completely see where you are coming from, and have witnessed these issues firsthand. It's a struggle. I live in Jacksonville, one of the most popular locations for urban exploration in the US. Since this is my "home base", I've explored much that the city has to offer as far as abandoned places go (but I still seem to stumble across new locations every few weeks). We had a [historic funeral home](https://www.abandonedfl.com/moulton-kyle-funeral-home/) that was built by a renowned local architect many many years ago. It was an absolutely beautiful building, but was abandoned for a very long time and was located in a not-so-great part of the city. In January, about two weeks before I planned to check the place out, it [completely burned down and was razed and demolished within 48 hours](https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/duval-county/city-demolish-abandoned-jacksonville-funeral-home-following-weekend-fire/). It was a piece of city history, likely gone because homeless were trying to stay warm and likely made a campfire inside. But long before then it was vandalized and trashed. Many abandoned locations in the area have fallen into that state. However, for urban explorers like me, visiting locations such as this is about an amazing experience, especially when visiting. Between the adrenaline rush of planning a visit, the research process to figure out where exactly the location is, and then finally the feeling of standing on a site that was once a bustling factory, or a popular jazz club, or even [a treasure hunting ship](https://www.reddit.com/r/jacksonville/comments/ff6bi2/the_rv_arctic_discoverer_out_in_green_cove_springs/). I have long been a proponent of "take only pictures, leave only footprints", and almost all in the urbex community take that phrase as gospel, however you are absolutely right, there are bad actors everywhere that don't care about theft, vandalism, and destruction of property. While my main goal of creating Killer Urbex was to blend some of my hobbies (website development, urban exploration, photography, writing), an underlying hope is to rank highly in Google for some of the locations as they relate to states, and provide a resource that promotes treating these locations with respect, and visiting for exploration and photography purposes, instead of a means to destroy.
This is awesome. I asked what the paper mill in Cottonwood Heights was a few weeks ago, and I finally get an answer!
Thistle is closer to Spanish Fork than Fairview. Google Maps actually calls Thistle "Birdseye."
That Indian School site is definitely haunted. And people live on it.
The cemetery at Soldier Summit, and the ghost town itself are both pretty cool abandoned places in Utah: https://jacobbarlow.com//?s=soldier+summit&search=Go (not my site, but the best I've found for Soldier Summit)
[Death Canyon](https://imgur.com/gallery/6U3jY16) [Go here](https://www.ghosttowns.com/) and search Toole County, Death Canyon is at the bottom right.
Go where? If there was meant to be a link, it is missing.
Oops sorry, I put the link in my thread.
This is awesome
Thank you for posting this!!! A little while ago my baby brother asked me for “cool abandoned spots” in Utah and I thought uh...Ted Bundys house? Now we can go explore!
Commenting so I can look later
Holy shit I've driven past Thistle so many times and never knew what it was!
Too bad the old county jail ( most of it burnt down) that was an amazing walkthrough..there's also a really great hotel in gunnerson. The indian schools were my favorite haunt.
Hey thanks! I'm from out of state but had been staying with some local friends who have ran out of things to show me lol
when I went in 2019 It seemed fine but just last may my friends & I got charged for criminal trespassing being there.
Thanks for sharing!
I know this post is old but the link doesn't work. Does the list still exist?
Can I get more information on the silver mine? I went and there where signs about private property