We've been there quite a few times, the last was August of 2015. We brought our daughter and three of our grandsons, all about 11-12 years old. We had always enjoyed our previous visits there and thought our grandsons would have fun.Naturally we headed straight to the fossils and had a good time, talk g lots of pictures. The was a park ranger tbere. He was an older man. One of my grandsons asked him a question about the fossils, but the ranger refused to speak to him. We left and went to Berlin. We found a picnic table and sat down to eat our lunch suddenly the ranger appeared , got out of his truck, walked within 20 feet of us and just stood there staring at us. My husband asked if there was a problem. The ranger never changed expression. He said "No". We finished our meal and left him standing there. While exploring Berlin we could see him in the distance, watching us. My husband swore he heard banjos so we left. I have to say that this happened nine years ago. I can't imagine what there was about us that caused the ranger to follow us around, but I think its wise for visitors to be aware of their surroundings and the people you encounter. Other than the odd experience, I highly recommend Berlin and Icthyosaur Park. Bring plenty of food and water. The closest town is Gabbs.

Been to Sumpter, probably been very close to Whitney but had no idea it was there.

Interesting info on the history and what happened to the change of time on this area thank you 🇺🇸

I live north of Idaho Falls and have not been here. I'll have to visit here soon.

To bad if it was a extension! If it’s not on his claim he can mine his own claim!

Very interesting thank you so much

This was awesome! My grandfather and dad worked for the Superior Coal Co. My dad went to high-school there and played football for the Superior Dragons. He quit school at 16 and went to work in the mine, where his dad was already working. That would have been around 1951. Thanks for the video! Brought back nice memories!

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Beautiful video! Thanks! 👍🏼

Great video! Thank you!

WENT THERE AND THAT HOTEL SCARED THE HELL OUTA ME..FELT EVIL IN THERE FROM THE PORCH SO I NEVER WENT IN..THE HANGING TREE WAS KINDA CREEPY..

Thank you.

I will like to see one episode about the town Bodie, California ❤

Very very pretty history❤

saludos desde espa

Spent a lot of time there, and found your video extremely informative. Thank you 👍

I visited Belmont NV in April 2024. The courthouse is an impressive structure. We visited in the morning, so the saloon wasn’t open yet. The town is still sparsely populated, so we didn’t venture much off of the main road, out of fear of mistakenly going down someone’s driveway. The town center was nice too with lots of historic vehicles and artifacts on display.

I am pretty sure I had a couple of ancestors in that company.

nice job.

It's a HOOT!! Want to see Colorado!!

I love this town. There is a great BBQ joint there.

The use of coal has actually increased to a record high. China burns more than ever. Russia is one of the biggest producers of coal.

Cool Place

I want to learn how to make those log style concrete headstones like the three in the video, I buried my cat and dog on family property and want to make them headstones, those will do, I'm a Carpenter so perfect.

It's Pronounced Plass'er'ville by the locals. Thanks for the video, haven't been there for a decade or so and I'm stuck living in town these days, am supposed to be doing Honey Do's , but am wishing I was out in the woods, this gives me a taste to maybe make it through the rest of the week doing the 7-5 grind in construction.

Similar situation in Sims ND on the old Northern Pacific main line. The difference is- when coaling facilities were no longer needed, the section of track through the town was completely abandoned for a more direct route east to west. As far as I know, there is still an active church in the area, but all other homes, businesses, the school & everything else is in ruins.

What is wrong with people? Woke up one day and said to themselves,” hey, let’s go spend 30 bucks on paint, buy some gas for the sh@t box we drive and go spray paint someones property “ out in the middle of nowhere…for what.

Painted by assholes

As buildings were torn down life in the town was in-tents.

this is what will happen to America when Democrats have their way.

DEQ lies. There’s toxic chemicals everywhere there. Just like Anaconda.

Sad it was tagged. I just watched a video of escalation on Pompeii and there was no destruction from this era.

We’re not a ghost town.

Beautiful little city until san Francisco bay area people moved in

Wow. cousins. I am descendent of Amasa Mason Lyman. The father of Walter C Lyman. So cool!

So cool, thanks for posting this. As a fan of geology and history I really enjoyed this.

Very beautiful area! Two beautiful lakes at end of road.

Amazing! I never knew all that marble in Washington same from nearby Colorado.

I have friends up there in the early 70s 😊

Another great episode and great history as well. Thanks for this episode.

Severe injury, and bleeding, usually come standard when getting a shoulder full of buckshot...hmmm, and that's 'one to grow on' , kids.😂😂😂😂😂

200 of them in Oregon amazing lived here all my life never knew it was that many the only one we ever heard of relentlessly Shanaka

Same here I'm moving there to me f Biden wins

Yes I would love to live there

I went to Marble with a friend in 1981 and we didn't expect to find the quarry on the top of a mountain. We hiked to the quarry and it was an amazing sight; the whole top of the mountain is made of marble, the stream cut through marble and it looked like a polished bathtub. If you go looking for the quarry, look up, WAY up!

What a cool channel you have! So informative! You definitely deserve more followers and I hope your channel grows. I’m making special note of it for when we retire out west and start to travel and explore in earnest. Good luck with your channel and thanks for all of the time you obviously put into your videos.

Also an 8th generation native 😊

Well your info is very inaccurate unfortunately. I worked for the Colorado Historical Society. The story about the man/violinist was mostly wrong. The man was the brother of the superintendent of the mine. The mine was NOT above Silver Plume. It was located up the canyon at what is now Saint Mary's Glacier turnoff on I70 (nothing left of that town now. It was on the south side of Clear Creek. Being up the canyon yes his music flowed down to the town. He committed suicide from depression.

Blanding was already settled by Native American tribes before the white folks showed up. On the west side of town is the old natives place called West Water.

Grew up here and learned quite a bit from your video! Thanks for capturing our special town <3