Fairmount Park Guide for College Students

This useful resource, created by students in the Fairmount Park Course, can be accessed here.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Centralia, PA


Over this past weekend I took a trip to Centralia, PA. It is located about two hours north of Philadelphia, but I thought it could be relevant to this blog since it's a unique natural landscape within driving distance of the city. Centralia was once a thriving borough until an underground coal mine fire began burning in 1962. Now there are virtually no residents and the few buildings left standing are condemned. I took this photo of smoke and steam emerging from a seam in the earth; the ground here was very hot.

1 comment: