Cascade, ID

Yesterday John & Mary took us around Cascade Lake to an area called Tamarack. Here some one had started developing a ski resort & community 4 or 5 years ago. They lost financing and it development was shut down a couple of years ago. There is a huge hotel that was under construction along with million dollar houses, lodges etc just setting there empty. There are some house occupied and the golf course seems to be open.
We then went on north on US 55 to McCall for lunch and the on north on a county road by Lake Payette and on into Nes Perce National Forest to a place called Burgdorf Hot Springs. Here for $5 a day you can spend the day in the hot springs pool. This place is so far up into the mountains that they don't even have electricity,they do have rental cabins however. This place is junky with some buildings falling down and looks like an old abandoned mountain place(top picture). We then went east and 16 miles past the end of the pavement we came to the old gold mining town of Warren see pictures. There are still people living here and there is a tavern so I guess you can't call it a ghost town. There is no electricity here either, however we did see one house with a DishTV dish on the side of it.