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Northern State Recreation Area

5/5

1 review

Day Use Area

Northern State Recreation Area

5/5

1 review

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Northern State Recreation Area

5/5

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In the late 1920s, this was the site of the state's largest mental asylum.
Today, the land is full of hiking trails between the two areas of buildings: one is the campus of buildings for the asylum, and the other is the self sustainable canning and dairy farm that fed the asylum staff and inmates.

This place is a photographers dream, an...
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MelCar Camper
5/504/19/2021

This abandoned asylum is a photographers dream, and the paradise of all hikers, explorers, wanderers, and history buffs! I attached a couple shots I got. There are a few other places that could give you the eerie, surreal, and time-frozen feel of this place, and the way nature is reclaiming what man built. There's a lot of graffiti and some broken glass in the buildings, but the big empty spaces, falling in rooves, and rotting wood create the most mesmerizing -- some might even say haunting -- aura. The area is closed from Sunset to sunrise, but you could easily spend a weekend or more exploring this area! A couple final notes: one, a few of the buildings on the asylum campus are still being used, so those are off limits -- and two, there is a disc golf course spread across much of the land, so bring your frisbees!

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