Ghost Town! Coolidge, Montana
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In our travels we came across this untouched ghost town of Coolidge in the southwestern part of Montana. These towns were boom and bust and it's obvious that the folks that lived and worked here left on short notice. There are numerous places to camp in the immediate area no matter what size RV you have, be it a motorhome, trailer or van, you'll find a place just for you. The fishing along the Wise River just to the north is fantastic and there are many historic towns and other things to see in the area including Bannack Ghost town which is well preserved with it's original buildings and colorful history. Also, you can visit the Big Hole Battlefield where Colonel Gibbon and his troops attacked Chief Joseph and his band of Nez Perce indians. This place is high in elevation so it's perfect for a summer trip.
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It’s a shame many people don’t respect places of interest, and feel it’s ok to graffiti. Your right, they do feel they are important. Thanks for sharing.
Always liked exploring old ghost towns, get a sense of history; of times gone by.
Enjoyed your adventure and presentation, as I always do!
Couple things came to memory as you talked about the pile of cans and icehouse.
Many years ago the small townships in Northern Wisconsin would have a location deep in the woods for the locals to dispose of their garbage, trash, ect. It was called, The Dump. Rightfully, so. When we wanted some evening entertainment, the family would load up in the car and drive to The Dump, to watch the black bears come to scavenge for food. We enjoyed the wildlife.
After cleaning all the fish we caught, we’d wrap in butcher paper and then again in newspapers to preserve the fish from freezer burn.
In the winter after a long days work, I remember my parents, resting on the davenport/sofa reading the daily newspaper. When they’d finish reading, they would lay the paper across their body to keep warm and take a snooze before time for bed. The paper was insulting against their body heat.
Thanks for rekindling wonderful memories 💕
Wow, thanks for sharing your memories!
My beloved grandma was the only person I ever heard call it a davenport ❣️🤗
All that work, abandoned in place. Economic forces are mighty indeed. Thanks for the tour.
HI, Y'ALL. THIS LOOKS LIKE A VERY NICE CAMPGROUND WITH STRUCTURES INSTEAD OF TENTS AND RVs.. I LIKE THIS TOWN... THIS SHOW IS 26 MINUTES AND IT TAKES ME AN HOUR TO WATCH IT. I KEEP PAUSING AND REWINDING THE FILM TO LOOK AT YOUR FANTASTIK CAMERA WORK.. DAMN YUR GOOD AT IT.. THANKS TO YOU AND LINDA BOTH.. NOW I LOOK FOR YOUR NEXT ONE,..
Thank you for the nice comment Wyatt!
Interesting vlog. I really enjoy wandering around these old ghost towns. Reminds me of my teenage years growing up in Alaska. I’ve explored many old mining camps and roadhouses. In the early 60s most of the old buildings were still standing. Usually the dump was quite away away from the camp because of bears. I always scrounged around in them looking for intact coffee cans and old log cabin syrup cans. I should have collected some of the old bottles. One mining camp in a valley called Nome Creek was an old gold dredge. There were several buildings where the old mining trail came in. I used to camp out in the old headquarters building while hunting. There were no windows left but other than that the building was intact. It had a good working wood stove and kept most of the rain out. Even had old tables to use. The dredge was several miles down the creek but still intact. When they ran out of gold they just abandoned the dredge. Interesting machinery in the dredge and old engines sitting in various places along the tailings. I have no idea what they were used for. Now that camp is gone. I think someone set the main building on fire. The dredge is still there but badly vandalized. The old roadhouses we used to camp in have now been cut up for firewood or burned down. So sad to see the loss of this history. I live in Idaho now and there is no lack of old mining camps and historical places to explore. Thanks for a great video.
Thanks for watching, Arnold, and sharing your story as well.
Thanks for watching, Arnold, and f [r sharing your story. We love seeing the old towns, and learning their history.
Very cool 👍... It always amazes me to stumble across some huge abandoned equipment in the wilderness. I had a friend who moved to Montana year's ago. He and his wife bought an old homestead built in the late 1800's. There was a old storage building on the property that he turned into a garage. He noticed that it was always very drafty. One day he decided to replace a few rotted out floor boards. When he pulled up the boards he noticed a 3ft. diameter hole with air howling through it. Come to find out that this out building was covering up an old mine ventilation shaft several hundred feet deep!! He built a steel gate to cover the hole but was very careful exploring the property there after. Have you and Linda ever discovered any old uncovered mine shafts or abandoned Wells? Safe travels Perry
Yes we have! They built a cabin or building over the shaft to facilitate going to and from work, but also to protect the entrance from intruders. Nevada is chock full of mine shafts that folks like to explore and there are a lot of videos on CZcams about it if you're interested.
@@gonagain wow, thanks Rick
This was a very fitting video for the holiday coming up! Ghost town and goblins! Kinda sad seeing all of those old buildings, but man that was some good looking boards on that building! I love lumber, when my sweetheart was still here our fav place to visit was our local saw mills. I just love to smell all of that wood being cut, pine, oak, popular, cedar all of it! Thanks for letting me tag along! Blessings
You're very welcome.
Wow! Thanks for sharing. So interesting. You guys look great by the way🙌🏽🙌🏽😊
Thank you for sharing this. this time was so different than our's. But it was a better time. To me life was good there. the air was better and not so much trouble. A very peaceful time. i love it.
Yes it was!
I loved the video which makes me miss Montana so much as I had a Great Aunt that buildings all over her farm and as a child that I did not appreciated the history of those buildings and now I expect those buildings are gone.
They most likely represented a hard life and a lot of hard work, judging by the Montana history I've learned. Thanks for watching Deb!
It seems that Impactful statements always jump out at me. Thank you Linda. At about 19:25 in the video you made a powerful ear catcher statement. You said (This is,,,,, what it is). I love the pause in the statement. I thought you know, that's just like we humans, we are, what we are. But then again, we are what we choose to be. God bless.
Thank you Usher 1. Linda
Nice place to be in the summer. TA KE CARE..
We loved this travel video by you and Linda. Me and the husband watch each new one that y'all make and post. It's so great to see places in the states that we will probably never get to in person and learn the history about those places. Montana is so pretty and This place was beautiful. I like hearing Linda tell what y'all see in person. We are old school age and so many of the items y'all come across, bring back lots of memories of things that were in our long ago time era, Woodstoves, kitchen cupboards, etc. I loved the past video y'all made of Linda showing how to bake a cake in a pot. I'd love to see more of her ideas for easy camp cooking. Y'alls videos are so enjoyable to see and learn from. Thanks for sharing and God's blessings to you both.
Thanks for the tip on doing a few cooking videos Julie. I'll let Linda know what you said.
We owned Elkhorn Hotsprings from 1977 to the1980s. You get to that from the other side. I have heard there is a paved road to it from Wise River. When we were there, it was a dirt road and in winter, only passable by snow mobile. In the summer it required a high clearance 4 wheel drive.
Down in Polaris, was the post office which was at that time was in the Melcher home which is across the street from the Polar Bar. That bar was only open when you honked your horn. The owner would come from the Melcher house and open it, sell you some drinks and close when you left. lol When we got our mail, it was in an empty beer box and our address was PO Box ELK which was written on the side of the box. hahaha You have to love small towns. hahaha
When we had the resort, almost all of coolage was still standing. Most of it was destroyed by the owners a restaurant in Idaho. They came and tore down (stole) the mine for the lumber for their restuarant. I know the name of the place was, "The Mine" at the time. But am not sure what it is called or what town it was in either. I wish I knew so I could pass on some bad publicity for their thievery.
The mill you see only in concrete structures was all there as well as the tram up and down from the top of the mine down to where you were standing there. Also the track for the ore cars from the mine and to the mill was all there. Most of those cabins you walked past when you were walking up the supply road were all standing. There was a bank and assay office still standing too. There was a lot of core samples still in the assay office. That photo on the pamphlet you showed of the mill building is what it looked like when I had Elkhorn Hot Springs. The only difference is that the building had no paint on it. The gold never ran out in Elkhorm Mine. The mine got so deep that even when they used steel beams, the walls would caved in and collapsed under the weight and that is why the mine closed. When I was there, the internal workings of the mill were still there too. I do have some photos of the mine I could email to you if you are intested. Let me know in a reply comment and I will send them.
There are a lot of mines in the area. Elkhorn Mine was just the biggest one. Also they built a hydroelectric plant and dam for Elkhorn mine but one winter that washed out. They had a railroad to the mine too and you can hike into the trees and find the tressels if you have time and if they are still there. There is a lake a lot further up the canyon. Several miles further up. Probably where the water is coming from. That lake is one of the few places you can fish and get Golden Trout. If you climb Mount Baldy, you can see the lake off the north side of the top of the mountain.
I don't know if you got down to Bannack but it was 100% still there when we owned the resort. It was not a tourist trap like it was the last time I saw it. It was just an abandon ghost town at the time. The grave yard was still there and the graves of the crooked sheriff and his outlaw gang members were still marked with the original wooden grave markers. My brother and I used to go rabibit hunting near there in the winters and always came home with dinner.
The big drum near the end of your video layed on it's side like that but with a slight down hill angle toward the end opposite the gears. That would break it up into smaller pieces then it went through. From ther eit would go into one vat and then the next. They used long belts that looked to be made of a very thick canvas. (about 1/2 inch thicvck) The belts were still there. It looked like they just shut everything off and walked away. They sent the tailings through the drum you saw and then into two big vats about 3 times that big as that drum. Into one vat and then in to the next. The vats stood up and tailings were dropped in from above. The vats still had water and tailings in them when I was there. In the bottom of the vats were huge flat round stones like thick pancakes. The stones were about 18 inches thick and just fit inside the huge vats. They rotated the huge stones and they ground the tailings up even more.
Wow JR! Thank you for taking the time to share all of that! I know that the first time we went to Coolidge there were a lot more of the buildings still standing and then we noticed that they suddenly we're down. Your information explains that! I'd love to see some of your photos, so if you have some time, please email them to gonagain21@gmail.com
Linda's so cute, my grandmother always said "that's it!" Meaning end of story. She grew up in the Pyrenees Mtns in Spain.
Your grandmother must have been quite a character.
I have a Ghost Town book on the entire state of Montana which is excellent history.. You both did very well on this with great camera work and descriptions of what you find .. Makes me wonder in this towns heyday how many folks called this home at it's peak ... Well done you both .. Keep making your videos of history like this one ... I just love history like this ..
Thank you Norman, glad you enjoyed it!
Boy that water sure was clear...great video
Interesting video. by the next 50 yrs or so most of it will be returned back to nature with a lot more trees. The big wheel at the end looks like a water powered wheel. A dam might have been built somewhere along the creek close to the pump house i guess.
Fun place to visit. Thank you. The place with the 2nd floor was way better constructed and appears to be somewhat newer.
I just learned that it was the mayors house and the state still keeps it up.
Of course, Can't have the mayor living in a shack.
What a beautiful trip!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous scenery!
Great video. I enjoy ghost towns. Be safe out there.
Did you see where all the tailings were? That sawdust insulation works pretty good. My X's family had an old ranch on what was left of the Holt Stage Road, and the house and bunkhouse had foot thick walls with smaller windows. Cool in the summer, warm in the winter. All the cans is something! Shows the lack of concern for the environment back then. We see it in all the lakes and waterways around Seattle where the old shipyards just dumped barrels of chemicals, oils, solvents, over the sides of the docks. We have a couple super fund sites right here. The mess is so much that I guess they simply plan to let time do the work.
I hate to see the messes from the old days like that in Seattle. We used to live there and the PCBs are a real problem. My dad said you shoud burn your tin cans before you buried them so that they would decompose faster. He said that in the early 50s.
I hate to see the messes from the old days like that in Seattle. We used to live there and the PCBs are a real problem. My dad said you shoud burn your tin cans before you buried them so that they would decompose faster. He said that in the early 50s.
In a way it is sad to see the dreams and efforts of people come to an abrupt end. The log structures seem to have lasted longer than the framework buildings. Miners are tough and know that veins can play out and it’s time to move on. Thanks for sharing you trip to the Elkhorn Mine.
Today is like then. Businesses and industries come and go. It hits people hard but most flex and go with the flow. Life goes on which is all we've got. One foot in front of the other. Seeing this explains a lot of the differences between folks on the coasts and those in the interiors. The interior folks had only themselves to rely on...the "boot strappers." They were rugged individualists who lived their lives at high altitudes in many cases and rather alone and isolated. They came to accept the isolation and began to crave it. When many more folks came and settled quite a few needed their wide open spaces and had to move on. This started back east in the early 1700s. They pushed out of places in Pennsylvania to Ohio then further out. Lewis and Clark's expedition was like a big marketing campaign to move west. Washington surveyed out in the wilds of Kentucky which mountains had to be crossed to get access to. Personalities like Daniel Boone who lived 10 miles from my former home in Berks county, PA pushed west exploring and opening up new territories that others followed after. Life had many hardships but many opportunities for these very independently minded pioneers. That's a characteristic of the "red states" you live in. It defines your spirit, philosophy and outlook on life. It's very much alive today. The differences between those who stayed and those that moved on are easy to see but so difficult to reconcile when we have to make global or national decisions. This makes compromise a very big challenge. That's fiction and fact from Herb Lapp's almanac. 😉🇺🇸
Loved it Herb, thanks.
Thanks for watching Roger.
Fantastic! 👍🇨🇦😉
Very intresting....I really want to see it some day soon....thax so much for the adventures!
You're welcome Henry, thanks for coming along.
Beautiful documentary. I hope you'll treat us to many more. Thank you!
Thanks Elwood Blues, we'll do our best.
Awesome ghost town I've been there to. Thank for sharing your time. Hey keep Oregon in your prayers fire's are bad.
We are in Oregon right now and could see the smoke before we got here. We're praying for ya'll.
We happen to be in Oregon right now and it really is bad like you say. The air is smokey and we're looking to get out of it.
Really enjoy your channel, it’s nice seeing an older couple on here, someone more relatable, and the content is really good. You are my kind of people, coffee all day! Thanks!
Thank you for watching Elizabeth!
thanks for showing us this,
Great meeting you guys here in Nevada. Have safe travels and maybe we’ll catch up to again.
Nice meeting you Mike!
I dug all over central Montana, never really found much but sure had fun!
What a beautifully crafted video ... I love your style, narration and pace. And your knowledge about these historic places is fantastic. Thank you!
Hey you two! I ran into you that day and had a brief conversation. I was going in when you were coming out. I asked if there were any in tact ruins! Fun to see you on CZcams. And nice video!
I remember you! Thanks for checking out our channel Statia!
Very interesting video . I enjoyed your journey around the place and telling us how things worked .
It's a cool place to explore and see how hard folks had it back then but they still persevered and enjoyed life.
I wonder, if that house still in better shape wasn't a caretaker house. Maybe federal, maybe state, maybe corporation, maybe private holding. But caretaker nonetheless, the people who left last. Just a guess. Great video as usual! :)
Hey, I didn't see or hear the rock chuck that was there when we went! Very cool place.
Maybe he was on vacation! A lot more buildings were down this time too.
The institutional sized cans most likely came from the Communal Eating Hall they pointed out on the info board. Takes a lot of Big Bean Cans to feed 300 miners! They must have been cooking all day !
Montana is a wonderful place with history!
I've been watching nomad and Van life videos for about 6 months. Just found you folks today and I've been bingeing. Use to live in NM and live the desert videos, but I too live in MT, now for 22 years and haven't gotten to see much of the state. Really enjoying this. You got my attention with the water filtration system video which I'm definitely going to do. Better than a Berkey!
Montana is beautiful and, after all the years I've lived here, I think I've become kinda jaded to it all. I need to take another look myself.
@@gonagain we moved here in 1999. We use to fish a lot and my husband got to see more if the state than I did due to my work. I'm hoping to get out this summer and go do some boondocking myself. At least do a few 2 & 3 day trips.
You guys are the best!
Thanks Chuck!
Interesting history Read of Coolidge on the Montana Government’s website. Thank you for sharing. I marked it on maps to visit. Peace
Great video.
Kinda sad isn't it? Love the history.
I don't know what you two think about Sasquatch, but toward the beginning of the video, I saw what looked like possible tree bows, trees bent over, and secured in place. The tops are either stuck into the ground, something placed on the end to hold it down, or the tip wedged under a root system. If you don't know the signs, you won't know what to look for. Tree bows, tree structures, X's, and occasionally, rock stacks or structures.
Have you ever had any strange experiences, lights in the woods, rocks, pinecones, nuts, or even logs thrown? Maybe you don't want to broach the subject! Personally, I find it very intriguing.
Thanks for the walk. It was beautiful!
I don't worry about the Squach much and for me the jury is still out. My father used to talk about the Yeti though and he was wondering about that back in the 50s. I didn't used to believe in UFOs either though, until we saw one up close and personal! Now I believe!
I noticed lots of those bowed over trees there. Just thought it was natural. I didn't even think about Big Foot! :O
I actually heard a weird sort of meowing sound like a big cat when I was walking around the ruins up there. I thought perhaps a mountain lion, then I realized I left the Jeep without my fanny pack that has my whistle, water, juice, and pepper spray etc. And I was all alone! When I started back to the Jeep I picked up a couple of rocks. LOLOL. I wonder if it was Big Foot! ??? Perfect place for him in the thick woods up there.
@@statiadougherty mountain lions act just like house cats in their mannerisms and their urine smells exactly the same. So if you smell that you know they're around. We came across a den with kittens once and couldn't get out of there fast enough!
@@gonagain Oh my gosh! I live around mountain lions, and the sound that I heard did sound like a young mountain lion. Scary. I would have been so scared coming across a den of kittens! Recently I heard a she-cat screaming. If you've never heard that sound, google it! It will send chills up your spine. It was close to the house too. I'm pretty isolated, but have 5 dogs for protection. I know a lion could easily jump our fence. Thank you for the info!
I enjoyed this video so much thank you for doing these walkthrough Ghost Town walkthrough history videos. I get to see things I wouldn't get to see.. love this video love love love it👍🏻👍🏻❤
Thank you Teresa!
COOL, Just watch out for those NAILS.
Yea, they'll nail ya.
Oh yeah, and they were everywhere!
Very cool vid, I really like Montana in the spring an summer, thx.
Me too! Winter, not so much.
Cans might indicate a boarding house? Thanks for taking us! I always imagine what the people were like, where they came from and where they eventually settled for the long term. Ten thousand stories that perhaps lay buried in yet undiscovered diaries and journals housed in one of Montana’s colleges or university’s.👍🇺🇸🤠🙏✝️
There certainly are a lot of journals available through the library that would be interesting to read.
Thank you for the tour....r
Another place to explore in the future. I'll be travelling to see Bannack State Park next week, also the Taco Bus in Dillon, but unfortunately won't have the time this trip to travel and see Coolidge as this will just be a quick overnighter. Thanks again for sharing your travels.
I hope you enjoy that taco bus! I would love some now.
Thanks for sticking with us! And that taco bus was well worth stopping at. Thinking of a trip over there just so we can try something different on the mmenu.
Great video Rick & Linda ,
Jo-Ann and I really enjoyed this one. That one cabin at around the 12:00 time stamp looks like it could be restored.
We love places like this.
JT
That one cabin was the mayor's house and the state still preserves it. Thanks JT!
Was there a hole in the ground where that big log with the root ball exposed came from. If not, I know what put that up there. It looks like to me something has been helping to demolish those buildings to the ground. Wouldn’t you think some would still be standing a little more than they are even after all of that time. I guarantee you wouldn’t want to camp out there, you would probably get visitors in the night you wouldn’t want to see. Definitely a ghost town and more. Take care and you two are brave to make a daytime trip up to that place. Good video
Thanks for watching WR!
Thanks for showing us this town and the road entry. I would like to visit this town next year on our trip to Montana. I appreciate your leaving everything as you found it for those of us following you. I wish everyone would be so kind and not be souvenir hunters; it destroys the history of the town to remove articles. I expect the metal detector folks would find lots of tin cans. Thanks for taking us along and enjoy your travels.
Oh! You’re braver than I was! I looked up that stairway and decided that it was too risky. Thank you for showing me what I missed.
Also, thank you for the outhouses! Even just 100 years ago, that was how we did it. A fact of life. Even in the snows of winter!
I poked around there for three hours. I was fascinated by the remains of the motor over at the mill. Imagine, all of those remains have seen a hundred winter snows since the people left.
Thank you for taking me back there! Wonderful tour!
Thanks for watching Galard. A friend told me that when his grandmother got indoor plumbing the men of the house weren't allowed to use it and still had to go to the outhouse, even at 40 below. lol!
Have you guys ever had a grizzly encounter in your home state? Once just outside the park I grabbed my fly rod and as my wife read her book I went stomping through the willows along the river. After about a half mile I happened upon hugh bear tracks. I had totally forgotten that I was not on Cedar mountain. Scared the heck out of me!
Yes we have and they're always memorable moments for sure! I did a video about one of those encounters and you can see it here if you like: czcams.com/video/eAagLv_9z_M/video.html
Cool place.
Hello Gonagain nice to see you all again hope all is well with you. It's funny people back then went for the newer stuff and today I am going for the older stuff the older way of life. Back when you could do for yourself Grow and raise your own food use oil to light up your house work your land the way you wanted to and be free. Now we have to pay for everything even to go sit next to a stream and watch the water run by unless you happen to have one on your land or stop on the side of a road way and see it but then you usually have trash all around of have to bush cut your way back to it at least around here anyway. I love that old Cabin I would fix that up and live in it. Just think of the skills they had back then to build that stuff and what I would give to be able to get wood from that era instead of the crappy wood we have today. I would be at the stream all day and just think what that would be to watch. Better than anything on TV i'll say. What a place to see If I can ever get on the road this will have to go on my list to see if my old van can make it and if I can make it. We hope your tomorrow is better than your today was.
Thanks for watching, Den. We try to keep our lives simple, I guess it's our way of connecting to the "old days". aloha...Linda
@@gonagain Yeah mine to I have always hated to let go of them and I am always thinking of getting back to them. Would you all mind if I took a screen shot of the creek in the video at 22:06 I would make a picture out of it for the inside of my cargo trailer.
@@Cockeyed_Den8213 no problem Den, go ahead.
@@gonagain Thank you.
Thanks for taking us on another great adventure! I have my little Runaway camper now but still need a more reliable vehicle to pull it with. When I get it, I'm heading west to see these beautiful places.
Marcia, you're going to love it.
Nice tour, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it, Pam.
Love the ghost town videos!
The way the walls failed with the roof pushing them out says they must not of used collar ties. You can see that around here with old barns like that. Collar ties a very important item sometimes forgotten before trusses were invented.
Been there because i found it on Google maps and by coincidence i went camping really close to it. I loved it there.
Its a beautiful place!
Wow I am going to be putting this ghost town on my list.
It's a pretty cool place to visit and imagine what it used to be like.
There's lots of camping places nearby too!
I’m really enjoying y’all’s channel. Hi from Texas, God Bless!
Thanks so much
Thank you, Midway! I have family in Texas.
Great video than k you.
Thanks for watching!
been there lots .all the way to the top
That house you were in looks like the last one some one lived in maybe 1930 or 1940. Glad you lost weight to be light as a feather to go up the stairs 😊
Loved this video it was great to go with you.
Kind of sad that the town wasn't kept up, but like you said it's not a tourist trap and your able to use your imagination and enjoy the quiet.
Take care and stay safe 🤗🐞
All the cans were amazing...
Very interesting. It amazes me how much is left after 100 years. I'm wondering if low humidity preserves things longer. Thank you.
Low humidity does preserve things way better. Coolidge gets a LOT of snow every winter.
Really like your ghost town videos! So cool to see how they managed to live a few short years ago. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it
Turning on your flashlight may have given more light in the house u were in. Just a thought. Ahh, you felt my comment coming. Flashlight some help. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for being a part of Gonagain!
Nice video! Really interesting and entertaining. I’ve lived in Montana my whole life and didn’t know about this ghost town
Well I'm glad you liked the video! It was in way better shape a dozen years ago.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. You had the place to yourself too. Did they have a cemetery? Those are always interesting to go through too.
Not in the town itself, but Linda says it's somewhere along the road going in. Not the road we walked, but further out.
Funny how Native Americans never left a mess when they moved on. Thanks for sharing!
Agreed!
That's because they didn't have a can opener. lol
Native Americans believe in replacing what they take and preserving the land for their grandchildren. Very awesome lesson for all of us.
That's not true. The Sioux moved because of the filth that accumulated outside their tipis.
At least it was biodegradable. I just left a campsite that was too littered for us to make a dent in with all the cans and bottles.
Y'all go to the neatest places! You're making our road trip list longer and longer. Kinda sad to see the ill affects of time and weather, but that's the way....
Another nice video!!!
Thanks for watching, Jan and Johnny!
Thank you and thanks for watching!
What camera do you use? Great picture quality! So many cans. Very interesting about the ice house. Thanks for taking me back in time again.
I'm just using a DJI Osmo Action and shooting in 2.7k and 30fps. It does a great job with only a little sound and color editing in post.
Although obviously maintained and occupied "recently", no way I would have gone up those stairs! You tune up your danger sensor at all? 😬
Beautiful area, thanks for posting guys, love it!!
Thanks for watching, Pilot! Hope you're recuperating well and staying out of trouble....Linda
Thanks Pilot!
@@gonagain Thank you for your thoughts my friends. Yes, recuperating slowly, bit too slowly for my liking, lol, but a lot of damage to repair. 1 week + 2 days before I'm allowed to drive again, but who's counting, 😂😂😂.
Take care!!
Hey Thanks for taking us along on your latest trek through this "Ghost town", and showing us where people lived and worked from days gone bye. I found it very informative, and took me away from my hum drum day! See you on the next one, adios amigos!!
Thanks for watching Mark!
Thanks, Mark! See you on the next one!
I pulled the fine book off my books shelf collection on ghost towns .. Coolidge is not in this fine book .. Ghost Towns of Montana by Donald C. Miller . Interesting i thought but maybe he ran out of space or time .. But you covered it very well, makes me want to go explore it and capture it on film ..It was just a thought i had that i would read about it also but not in this book ..
Good to visit that place
Just like Bodie, Ca. but buildings are still standing there.
I've seen video of Bodie, looks interesting.
Been to that one too! There’s a place to dig crystals close by
Linda keeps bugging me to got there and dig.
Gonagain hopefully - You have found the time to go there and dig 👍
Working on it!
Have you been to the ghost town near Sheridan MT? Its a rough drive up Mill Creek road but I've driven my skoolie up to it several times. Some amazing camping spots along the creek all the way up to Branham lakes at the end. Beautiful area!
No, we haven't been up to Mill Creek campground but that sounds like a good place to check out when it's warmer (for us). Thank you!
Wow there was no recycling in those days lol
We always look forward to seeing your videos. Love to be there with ya but why didn’t you do any metal detecting? Love to run a few pans in the river!
Hi George, you're not allowed to hunt for artifacts in National forests and BLM lands. You can hunt for gold though!
At 9: 23 looks like remains of a sawmill .
Thanks
Thanks, S Tex!
Welcome!
Interesting, thanks. Larry Miller San Diego Ca
Glad you enjoyed it Larry!
My mother moved to California in 1985. We traveled hwy 70 until St. George Utah. Didn't know that gas was 110 miles from Colorado at Green River. Got off at Cisco Utah in search of gas. Pulled off into a driveway but no one there. I blew the horn and someone finally showed up. Got my gas. The person who sold it to me said only 12 persons still worked there for the railroad. Cisco was becoming a modern day ghost town due to hwy 70 pulling traffic away from the town.
Thank you guys. I appreciate thou allowing us to tag along. This id a real ghost town. Wonder what you would have been able to find with a metal detector. Old silver coins come ro mind. Do they consider this a state or federal park?. Have fun, stay safe and stay healthy.
Coolidge is located in National Forest, so rules about metal detecting in national forest lands would apply. It would be something, though, to find coins there.
Hi Beach Bum! The rules on using a metal detector in National Forest lands would apply in Coolidge.
That poured concrete structure did not look at all as old as the fallen wood buildings. I's say there was some kind of activity there within the last 40 years.
I'm not sure Butch, but the reader board said it was over by 1927.
Some of that is so far gone it is kind of a blight. Doesn't take long for nature to reclaim it I guess.
Temple was likely a Masonic Temple, most MT mining towns had one.
They’ve had their first snow this year
Winter is coming on fast this year.
That is the Mayor's house..The only dwelling the state still keeps up.
20 years ago probably about 75 to 80% of the buildings were still standing...We have been going there since 1992.I have been watching your videos for quite some time now and enjoy all your adventures..My wife and family and grandkids all live here in Montana as well.
Yes, and we remember it being a lot more intact when we first went 20 years ago too. Thank you very much for watching PickNorm Leeper!
I wouldn't call it untouched. There has been much vandalized and raided for private collections. Not too many years ago the owners of the mill sold all the wood structure to be torn down and used to build a multitude of mansions for the rich. The mill had the distinction of the largest wooden structure in the state. Too many of our magnificent structures have been either torn down or burned in the name of progress.
Thanks for sharing that information Bob.
hike up to the upper mine its worth it
Next time for sure Robert.
Do you ever try gold panning in those old mining towns?
I haven't, but you can if you like as long as your not on anyone's claim.