This Lonely Abandoned Road on a Crumbling Cliffside is Allegedly Haunted & About to Collapse!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2024
- Join me as I explore the abandoned section of Tariffville Road in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Supposedly referred to as "Evel Knievel Road", it has been abandoned for 40 years and is slowly crumbling and sliding down the cliffside! Let's take a look!
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Sources of information:
www.newspapers.com/article/ha...
www.ghosttowns.com/states/ct/...
Link to my original video from December 2020. Warning: The info in my 2020 video has been largely proven incorrect!
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It's nice to see you doing something different besides malls I love all your videos but it's nice to see a variety places malls roads flea markets and a abandoned office building you used to work at
Yes, I'll see what else I can find! Thanks.
Loves these abandoned videos, and the tours of different places than malls flea markets for a change.
Thanks! I'll see what else I can find to film!
I love these abandoned places
Me too. I'll see what else I can find. Thanks!
Tom,
With apologies for pelting you with comments, the history of other roads in that area is also interesting. More to the point, Tariffville Road has another abandoned (closed) stretch and was once part of Route 187. Before 1960, there were three bridges crossing the Farmington River, and there is that expressway where Route 187 and Route 189 meet and overlap. I don't know why Bloomfield hasn't named that road. Personally, I'd name it Tariffville Road or Tariffville Boulevard and name the stretch you've shown Old Tariffville Road. (Route 189 also has no name in Tariffville, strangely.) Your original video inspired me to (re)learn all of this because I lived in Bloomfield for many years but never knew that Tariffville Road survived, even without vehicular traffic.
There's also history in Tariffville generally. Just to highlight one, do you know that the Tariffville Fire Station was once a tobacco barn built with redstone mined in Simsbury and is on the National Register of Historic Places?
I hope this is insightful. I really appreciate you coming up here!
thank you for giving me more places to explore in this state, i always feel like there's nothing to do lol
There's a lot of places like this. You just have to know where to look. Thanks for watching!
Welcome back to North Bloomfield, Tom! Or the top of Bloomfield, really! This road is on Laurel Hill, part of the Metacomet Ridge. All of the surrounding area along the rock face is preserved land, there are signs to that effect on both sides of the end of the curve. If you kept going north (downhill), you'd connect to the blue trail, which would eventually take you to Penwood State Park. FYI: Tariffville's post office shut down in 2008, I believe. You should definitely check out the surrounding area on both sides of the curve-including Old St. Andrews! Not abandoned places, but, definitely beautiful scenery. And don't miss the new trail along Route 189. It's an interesting walk, especially compared to going up and over the curve. As Original Nethead said, "Met. Dist." is likely a reference to Metropolitan District Commission and the water infrastructure which does exist along the Metacomet Ridge.
Hope to see you back here again!
Thanks for the info! I'll have to check it out.
@@fleabittenadventures, the folks who live over there are also a good bunch, at least, in my experience they have been kind and welcoming to me.
@Fleabittenadventures, you also see quite a bit of wildlife over there, at least, I see wildlife down by the church on the trail. Indeed, I've seen deer, bobcats, and even black bears.
As always great video 👍
Thanks!
I think this is a really nice place to vid a walk I think you should do more like this
Thanks! I'll see what I can find.
that was cool info...
Thanks!
Another great video. That cliff face does NOT inspire confidence in a fight against gravity. Looks like an absolutely beautiful area. Thanks.
Thank you! Yes, I could easily see that cliff collapsing with a heavy enough vehicle driving over it, especially the part right next to the edge of the road.
@@fleabittenadventures and @mgratk, that's also why I don't encourage people to go up ther, especially if they're afraid of heights.
This was quite the adventure Tom, although I enjoy the flea market and mall content, I like how you're branching out lately. Great job
Thanks! I used to do this type of video when I first started my channel, but then the flea market and mall videos started getting a lot of views and the abandoned videos barely got any. I'll post a few more and see what happens.
❤❤I love this video it's very interesting ❤
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
very interesting
Thanks!
If you want to do more like these, look at the abandoned Todd Hollow Road in Plymouth that’s owned by the US Army corps of engineers now. There is also more abandoned roads by the Thomaston Dam and leadmine brook area in the next town over.
Thanks for the info! I'll look into these places.
I see lots of poison ivy and other poisonous plants in that video. Those New England glacial debris cliffs are fascinating. Sometimes there are caves in the area.
I wasn't sure which ones were poisonous, so I tried not to touch any of them. I'm not aware of any caves in the area, but if I find any I'll take a look. Thanks!
What are you using to record? It looks so stabilized, is it on a gyro? I like it.
Samsung s22 ultra on a dji gimbal. Makes for very smooth footage. Thanks.
@@fleabittenadventures Yeah! It looks really nice!
I've driven the part of Tarrifville Road that's still in use. NOT something I'd want to do after dark or in bad weather. It's less a road than a goat track. If they closed off part there was a good reason. Fine for a horse or two, but no good for cars. Met-Dist - Metropolitan Water District. Old sewer access or some such.
Yes, even the open part of the road on the Bloomfield side is falling apart. It seems weird to me that the would have sewer or water access right on the edge of a cliff, but what do I know?
@@fleabittenadventures, the Simsbury side is well maintained, curiously enough. I wonder if Simsbury also maintains the stretch of Tariffville that is technically still in Bloomfield before it becomes Mountain Road.. There must be a paper trail somewhere of who has obligations to what on that road after Bloomfield abandoned that section. Thanks again for sharing!
wtf is that drone bs
That is the result of voting blue. Bigger and bigger, more powerful government.
Yeah, it's kind if ridiculous. Basically, I would need to take a test which costs something like $300 to take in order to get a commercial license. It's apparently a pretty difficult test and requires a lot of study before taking it. I'm not sure if it's worth it at this time, but maybe someday.
@@fleabittenadventures sounds like just another excuse for the government to make more money to me, talk about the land of the "free"