From: Phillip Parsons <parsonspj@live.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 3:05 PM
Subject: FW: Freeman Trail
To: Paul Breuklander <pbreuklander1@gmail.com>, Phillip Parsons <parsonspj@live.com>
Yesterday Paul, Jim and I explored the Freeman Trail, a 33-mile gravel road from about 5 miles south of the Tom Mix to Dudleyville, about 7 miles south of Winkelman on the 77. The desert terrain has a couple notable mountain peaks, a few outpost cattle ranches and lots of desert grass and foliage. The twisting dusty road is easy traveling except for one place: there is a Missouri Bridge creek crossing with a gravel bottom just before Dudleyville that would be bad news for motorcycles. The town is an end-of-the-road place where several houses burned in a forest fire last year.
There is also a photo of empty and collapsed storefronts in downtown Hayden where the only active business is the Police Department with no less than 5 patrol cars parked in front. They must be carefully watching the old smelter that made the town and is now watching it close down along with the mining.
Phil
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