Recently I used Google Earth and located a massive steel mill, the site seemed as ruined as any, and after watching a couple drone videos I decided to travel over and explore it.


Bottle cars lining up to a large warehouse, the blast furnace tap was far away so I assume they weren't loading anything.


I found this machine at the bottom floor of a corrugated-steel water-tower structure that must've been at least ten stories, though I do not know what purpose this building served.


This bridge crossed next to the steel mill clarifiers, big cylinders of water that would get cleaned.


All of the furnace's hatches had been removed for some purpose, their bolts placed into buckets on the catwalks.


I can't comprehend the size of the steel mill, these things are just so gargantuan, it's hard to imagine them. Most big pipes were at 6' diameter, Cowper-stoves standing at over ten stories.


The base of the blast furnace had seen better days, though it was in great condition; the furnace was stored in a room that must've been at five stories max, it was just huge.


This massive valve was part of the water-purification building, and jutted out 6' with a 2' diameter wheel, really made you feel like an ant.


The whole facility was filled with these 'Breathing-Apparatus' boxes, resuscitators, stretchers, warning signs everywhere; the plant did recieve 85,000 in OSHA fines, which may be the reason behind this.


First floor of the boiler building, a long, dingy building, with fiberglass-sash windows. I found a small bailey-meter bottle of mercury that was used to tune the boilers in there.


The building was filled with tens of thousands of spare valves, big, small, everywhere; just lying around, or on shelves, stocked and untouched.


The top floor of the boiler building had tons of spare parts, massive ventilation machines at 8' tall, I even saw a turbine that had been removed from its casing.


View of the demolished furnaces, the Cowper-Stoves still intact because they're made of concrete and steel.

Incredible discovery.

Uh. FUCK YEAH.


This is so rad

Thats cool and all but why did you think it was a good idea to post this on reddit? Exteriors are bad enough, you straight up dropped the name and the city it's in. It was already frustrating that the clout chasing douchebags found this place and made a joke of it, you've now put it on so many more people's maps.

It doesn't take any amount of skill to find something on Google maps and wander inside. Using enough judgement to know when not to post is the mark of a true explorer.

Welp!

This reminds me of that Belgium place everyone on Youtube was going to years ago.

If this is out there on Reddit, then this place is going to get trawled within weeks and shutdown.

Posted by EsseXploreR Thats cool and all but why did you think it was a good idea to post this on reddit? Exteriors are bad enough, you straight up dropped the name and the city it's in. It was already frustrating that the clout chasing douchebags found this place and made a joke of it, you've now put it on so many more people's maps. It doesn't take any amount of skill to find something on Google maps and wander inside. Using enough judgement to know when not to post is the mark of a true explorer.

Just saw in addition to all this, he left a google review and put photos on there? Really stupid behavior

Posted by Pearson Just saw in addition to all this, he left a google review and put photos on there? Really stupid behavior

Okay thanks for reminding me, after my dopamine high I decided to post too many photos about this place, though they've long since been deleted. All photos that currently exist do not have any tags to the building's location whatsoever.

My apologies, that was stupid behavior

Posted by Pearson Just saw in addition to all this, he left a google review and put photos on there? Really stupid behavior

LOL jfc man. Exploring in 2023...

Great photos.

Just an update. This location has made its way to the most toxic and destructive discord server out there, the one Bill Finan runs. It is now all over public maps, and a whole network of entitled, brain dead fools are now name dropping it all throughout private chats. It was 100% precipitated by this thread and your Reddit thread. So when we all see this place become a free for all, tags start popping up and stuff goes missing, we can all thank OP for his complete lack of common sense.

Thanks for ruining something I've been sitting on for 5+ years, and others even longer.

Posted by EsseXploreR This location has made its way to the most toxic and destructive discord server out there

Damn. that really sucks

Thought you might like to know, the server is ruined. The card invite doesn’t work anymore, and half the people were kicked. After that, bill gave up and gave the server ownership to another random person who says they want to improve things. Hopefully they’ll make the server nondestructive, or ruin it entirely