A street (looking north) slowly being reclaimed by the grass. Off to the left is a derelict tennis court. These are some images I took in Jeffrey City recently. Jeffrey City is the only town between between Muddy Gap and Lander on Highway 287. It was once a boom town--uranium mining--and currently has a very small population who work mostly on ranches. Rumor has it that it might boom again--can't remember what it is they think they'll mine there but surely something that will damage the landscape and people's health. Right now it is a sleepy place that the landscape are beginning to retake. I was there in April 2008, about 2 weeks after the last major snowfall, on a very windy day. The wind just sweeps through there.
A closed restaurant with snow piled up in front of it (north facing).
One of the buildings where they housed men who worked in the mines. Below is one of the old gas stations. On the back, which faces a road coming out from the Red Desert and the mines, it says "Flats Fixed."
The only signs of current life I saw are below, other than the post office's drop area (Jeffrey City doesn't have a post office anymore, just a stoutly built shelter on what must have been a town square idea. It houses locked mailboxes and a mail bin for sending things out. I am not sure where you purchase stamps.
