Last week an internet acquaintance who had seen some of my past industrial/abandoned decay work contacted me to see if I was interested in shooting an abandoned county jail. Of course I was interested and was literally counting down the hours until I could get inside.

Scott had been given access to the jail due to a case that he has been working on and gave me an excellent tour of the site. Had he not shown me around I don’t think I would have had the nerve to explore some of the darker regions of the facility. To all you abandonment junkies out there this is still considered a jail and trespassing on this site could result in some serious consequences, so keep out.

Enjoy the photos and thanks again for the invite Scott!

The first building we encountered was welded and chained shut but after a bit of looking around we found a way inside. Entering this building is a VERY bad idea .. rotting wood floors, collapsed ceilings, rusty nails, broken glass, displaced objects, and mine shafts makes this a dangerous place. We carefully picked our though taking a our photos.

We exited the building and started hiking up the mountain toward our next destination under dark skies, rolling thunder and a bit of rain. We followed the route I had mapped out on my GPS and three miles later we arrived at the second site when the rain really started to come down. We found our way in (also a bad idea for reasons listed above) and started taking our photos.

This site looked as if it could topple over at any moment.

The thunder was still rolling as we headed back down canyon. We hiked up the tailings pile and took shelter under the large conveyor belts as the rain came down again. Twenty minutes later we were shooting our last photos of this site before we headed back down the trail.

The largest building in the complex was very impressive, It has at least 8 levels and was constructed on a very steep hill. The lower levels are a tetanus shot waiting to happen with tons of debris form collapsed ceilings and pieces of broken equipment littered across the floors. I didn’t not take of shots of the outside to due rain but we spent a fair amount of time exploring the inside.

Ground level