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These incomplete chimneys drove me crazy for a while outside the Twin Cities before I found how to get to them. Apparently they were part of a power plant that was not finished. I like the way the rebar still sticks out of the incomplete chimney.
The property is known as "the U-lands" as it now belongs to the University of Minnesota; it is used for a variety of purposes. It was a munitions plant built during WWII, and never completed. You can search more on it from local UrbEx'ers. There is some STRANGE shit out there related to explosives production and testing!
Unfortunately I suspect access is more restricted than it used to be...
The property is known as "the U-lands" as it now belongs to the University of Minnesota; it is used for a variety of purposes. It was a munitions plant built during WWII, and never completed. You can search more on it from local UrbEx'ers. There is some STRANGE shit out there related to explosives production and testing!
Unfortunately I suspect access is more restricted than it used to be...
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Huh, I don't recall the Gopher name. That was many years ago. I know I found quite a lot of the web from local UrbEx'ers :)
By T walls do you mean the various blast test areas? If so, I seem to recall several places like that.
This has triggered memory of another explosives place, maybe in Wisconsin, something like "Badger Works"...?
By T walls do you mean the various blast test areas? If so, I seem to recall several places like that.
This has triggered memory of another explosives place, maybe in Wisconsin, something like "Badger Works"...?
Here's a quick (albeit 8 years old) article about the Gopher Ordnance Works from a local television studio. You aren't too far off in your description, the land is now called Umore Park as it is, indeed, owned by the U of MN.
Wisconsin had its own ordnance plant, which was indeed the Badger Works, and that survived much longer than the short-lived Gopher Works; Badger supplied powder through the Vietnam War.
Wisconsin had its own ordnance plant, which was indeed the Badger Works, and that survived much longer than the short-lived Gopher Works; Badger supplied powder through the Vietnam War.
Now if only you'd managed, on your trip to the Dells, to have randomly stopped at The Gobbler Hotel before it was destroyed.... But the good news is, the Gobbler Restaurant has survived and will live to be retro another day after being purchased in 2014. It had sat vacant for 20 years...
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