Was having a moment of reflection the other day and took to the web looking for some old photos of abandoned places. I recalled that one place featuring Oklahoma sites (http://www.abandonedok.com/), but I find it today with a "We're doing spring cleaning" graphic and no links or anything active.

Anyone know if this is truly just a temporary cleanup or has the site gone away?

Must be temporary, I was on there just the other day.

Yeah I was just on there this weekend reading up on the Big Canyon quarry

While waiting for Abandoned Oklahoma to come back online, this guy has an extensive playlist . . .
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Yeah I was just on there this weekend reading up on the Big Canyon quarry

We just, a little over a month ago, drove by the Big Canyon Quarry (Dolese) and that old refinery in Cyril on our way to Mt. Scott and the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge with a stop by Medicine Park on the way. Please be assured: Medicine Park is not on the verge of being a ghost town. If the river cooperates. p.s. I think that Little Niagara--on Travertine Creek, in the former Platt National Park--is back in business. When we were there, it was a dried up mudhole.

While waiting for Abandoned Oklahoma to come back online, this guy has an extensive playlist . . .
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Awesome post, Rad. That's *exactly* the kind of place I'd like to find and snap some pics of. Those kinds of photos, especially in black and white, are especially haunting. Not "haunting" as in "gremlins in the closet," but "haunting" as in "echoes of people long gone, from a town long forgotten, with all that remain the allegations of their existence" (wonder where that's from).

We just, a little over a month ago, drove by the Big Canyon Quarry (Dolese) and that old refinery in Cyril on our way to Mt. Scott and the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge with a stop by Medicine Park on the way. Please be assured: Medicine Park is not on the verge of being a ghost town. If the river cooperates. p.s. I think that Little Niagara--on Travertine Creek, in the former Platt National Park--is back in business. When we were there, it was a dried up mudhole.

That sounds much like the routing we take, add in Mountain View to check my MIL's grave to make sure the stake is still in solid. that is just some darn relaxing motorvating there. Now that I know to back up EVERYTHING on an external HD, I need to go back by some of the gravesites around there and get some more pics.

As I mentioned, when posting the video, above, the fellow behind Ghost Towns of Oklahoma (on Youtube) has dozens of videos, all of which have great production values and really convey that "haunted" atmosphere that was mentioned. Here are a couple of other "Urban Archeology" sites that I discovered a few years ago and still find fascinating.

In case you can't afford to fly to England . . .

Derelict London - Derelict London homepage (http://www.derelictlondon.com/)

Some amazing stuff from The Twin Cities . . .

Action Squad - Minneapolis Urban Adventurers (http://www.actionsquad.org/)

Researching something completely unrelated (well . . . sort of unrelated) I accidentally discovered this photo collection. Some very interesting shots in here . . .

Panoramio - Photos by lightbenders (http://www.panoramio.com/user/1906894?comment_page=1&photo_page=1&show=all)