WALLPACK

NAME: Wallpack COUNTY: US ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: anytime

COMMENTS: it is the Delaware recrational park now. Ranger patrols, but they are don't bother you unless you are doing something wrong. You can walk around but are not allowed inside abandon homes. REMAINS: many abandon homes a few are still occupied

In 1962 they U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were going to dam up the area and flood it to make a lake the size of lake Michigan. Government bought the homes and had the people move out. Environmentalist came in and checked it out and they said too much siesmic activity, possible threat of a salmonella poison, it would be unsafe. In the mid 1970's they totally dropped the project and left a ghost town. It is now owned by the national parks service. Submitted by: Noel Short NYPAPS

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