Rocky Mountain Way- ain't no other way ???? - Video

Tour Ghost town: the grounds of Northern State Mental Inpatient Facilities via ebike with us.

It only took us roughly a half hour to ride our bikes thru the gates of these beautiful but tragically decaying grounds. The trees stood like giants, old and massive, a testament of time and evidence of the good that occurs when left untouched. But the structures on the other hand told a different story.

Peer at the entrances to these mental hospitals on these grounds with us, as we mendered our way thru the property on our ebikes, I couldn't help but feel a heavy sadness for the people who once walked where we were. Even as beautiful as the architecture is and was.
Northern State Mental facilities originated in the 1920s and closed in the 1980s Reagan era when Mental health across the nation was defunded at that time. These grounds served thousands of patients during those decades, and a lot can change in 60 years.

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