Missouri is lucky because most of the old highway is still around. Most of the orignial highway is either broken up or all together gone. (Santa Monica peer was the end point in California) and it was roughly 2,000 miles long. I will tell you that the Highway ran from Chicago to L.A. A few buildings still stand.supposedly.Īctually I have a book on US 66 in Missouri.
Mineola - I-70/Hwy 40 East to Danville exit, turn south onto Highway J, about 2.5 miles. Santa Fe Depot in ruins, and the Eureka Hotel (supposedly).
Medill - West of Kahoka in extreme northeast MO.
"Dupont was a factory where dynamite was made." That sounds like just the place to explore, if its still there! There is supposedly still a general store off the road, in the bushes.ĭupont - 4 miles south of Carl Junction, west of Joplin. Might be worth a couple of pix at least.Ĭull - Off Highway ZZ in Howell County east of West Plains. A campground now, but there are still old buildings there (girl wasn't sure if they were used for storage or not). If you have any other info on them, please post!Īrlington - West of Rolla off of I-44, just east of Jerome. I'm listing the ones that I've found out about that at least had buildings in the past 4 years. The Ozarks are a sprawling, mountainous region which covers large parts of the states of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.Instead of posting a million topics regarding ghost towns of Missouri, I decided to just put them in one. 'With 9 million visitors annually to the area, this property is uniquely situated to benefit from the broad local, regional, and national market that plays, works, and lives in Branson, Missouri,' the developers state in marketing material online. Still grand in scope, it is hoping investors won't be turned off by the development's rocky history. In 2018, they broke ground on the new development called The Ridge at Table Rock Lake. New developers bought the property three years later. In 2012, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company stepped in to purchase the development for just $3.1m. Attorney in Missouri's Western District said in a statement that the failure of Indian Ridge Resort and North Shore Investments to abate, control or slow the erosion from the construction site persisted through at least the end of August 2011. The developers were later convicted of violating state and federal clean water laws after excavated soil washed into Table Rock Lake, and Jim Shirato was forced to pay a $125,000 fine. It wasn't the only legal trouble the project fell into. A fifth person, James Clarkson, 45, of Arizona, last August received a 24-month prison sentence. Snider's wife Heather Gibbs, 54, and Drake's wife Vickie Hall, were each sentenced to three years probation for their roles in the scheme. The abandoned resort buildings next to Table Rock Lake, east of Branson West, visible from Route 76, have become a source of curiosity for visitors to the region, which attracts up to 9 million tourists each year.Īnd now as the start of the warm season brings an influx of visitors, the unsightly mansions are continuing their slow decay. The original lead developer Jim Shirato was fined for violating state clean water laws and five people were convicted and sentenced for their roles in a real estate fraud scheme by lying to get loans to buy townhouses, local news outlet KY 3 reported.
The project foundered as the 2008 financial crisis hit loans were defaulted on, and construction work came to a halt. When it was launched to great fanfare in 2006, investors were promised the new $1.6 billion Indian Ridge Resort Community in the Ozarks region of Missouri would feature a shopping mall, a 390-room hotel and the country's second-largest indoor water park - and dozens of enormous, castle-like townhouses.īut 15 years later, the 900-acre development near Table Rock Lake, Missouri, lies mostly empty, and abandoned McMansions litter the vast site in varying states of disrepair.