グラップリングフックの少女のクランベリーちゃんです！ゴーストタウン「Franklin」を探検しましょう。

駐車場は閉鎖されています。登山口には駐車できません。私は少し離れた場所に車を停めて、登山口まで歩きました。

トロッコに着いたら左に曲がってゴーストタウンへ向かいます。

廃坑へは少し標高差がありますが、それほど急ではありません。坑道には転落事故を防ぐための保護格子が設置されています。

坑道を過ぎると、墓地へと続く道があります。墓地はとげのある茂みに覆われているので、注意して歩いてください。墓石を見つけるのが難しい場所もあります。多くの墓に誰かが木製の十字架を置いています。これは素晴らしい心遣いです！

かつてトロッコが通っていた廃橋もあります。町の歴史を垣間見ることができる興味深い場所です！

近くの射撃場から銃声が頻繁に聞こえてきます。静かな雰囲気が台無しになるのは残念です。

川まで降りてみると、何百匹ものサケがいました！サケが川を渡る時は邪魔をしないでください。これは大切な自然の一部です！でも、遠くから眺めるのは良いことです！彼らの旅の幸運を祈っています！

道には倒木がいくつかありますが、簡単に越えられます。一番心配なのは、とげのある茂みです。とげで肌を切らないように、保護服を着用してください。

Short English Version:
-Parking lot closed, park distance away.
-Some fallen trees, easy climb over.
-Be careful throny bushes.
-Salmon in river. Please respect them!

Note that the parking lot at the start of the trail is closed, so park across the bridge in the lot next to the resort.   After walking up the trail (old road) for about half a mile you come to the old ore car.  I turned left following the sign to the cemetery and flume.  This trail is mostly a gradual climb, with some blowdown to easily cross.   I ended at the cemetery, which is mostly overgrown with a couple of markers visible.   Going back down to the ore car, I turned left along the old road to find some foundation ruins a short distance on the right. There was no sign to indicate what this structure originally was.   There were no further remnants, so I returned on the old road to the trailhead.  Lots of raspberries.  Given the time I didn't go down to the river this time. 

My first ghost town hike!  Between fulltime work and fulltime school, I have had little to no energy nor will to get outdoor exercise time in this summer. This was a sad realization. So when my friend asked me if I wanted to hike Franklin Ghost Town and then do the Green River Gorge Waterfall hike and take a dip in the river, I said, Yes! Yes, I do.

At Franklin Ghost Town, we visited the mine shaft, cemetery and saw some old mining equipment, structures, and the shaft. The ladies working at the lodge told us there had been bobcat sightings recently, so we kept any eye out but didn’t see any. The ladies at the “lodge”were a wealth of information regarding the trails, history, and river. As other have said there is a $5/person fee. I thought it was per vehicle, but it appears it’s per person. The blackberry bushes aren’t super terrible in the ghost town right now. I got by in a tshirt and shorts just fine.

This is the most Vitamin D I’ve gotten this calendar year, and I feel amazing

Got to pay parking lot before noon, west of the bridge, plenty of spaces. Trail to mine shaft was easy, but getting to graveyard was very overgrown, lots of blackberry runners on the trail. Wear long pants/sleeves this time of year. Saw a bobcat on the trail about 1pm.

The trail from the parking lot to view the falls is steep for a minute, then it's flat. The hike down to the river is not hard. The water was moving fast, so we didn't go in. There were people swimming in the pools across the river.  I think they had to pay $5 to the house at the top to get to the river.