Latitude: 39.2213382
Longitude: -82.2438569
Elevation: 254 meters / 833 feet
Barometric Pressure 983KPa

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IMG_4040.JPG by Justin Masterson, The abandoned "suicidal cottage" at The Ridges Asylum, where suicidal patients were kept,
IMG_4040.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4042.JPG by Justin Masterson, A very creepy piece of graffiti to put on the outside of the suicide ward at a mental asylum.


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IMG_4042.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4061.JPG by Justin Masterson, A shot of the old, spooky, abandoned Ridges Lunatic Asylum, as seen from the creek below its main en
IMG_4061.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4053.JPG by Justin Masterson, Steps to nowhere, outside of the suicide/TB cottage at Ridges Mental Asylum.

Creeeeeepy writing, ca
IMG_4053.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4050.JPG by Justin Masterson, An ancient door to keep suicidal patients in, and keep me out.

Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a sm
IMG_4050.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3983.JPG by Justin Masterson, Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a small nook in the exercise yard, where a patient could certainly w
IMG_3983.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4054.JPG by Justin Masterson, The stunning mental patient cemetery adjacent to the Suicide/TB Cottage at Ridges Mental Asylum.  Pa
IMG_4054.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4018.JPG by Justin Masterson, More creepy curtains at The Ridges...

Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a small nook in the exercise
IMG_4018.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4046.JPG by Justin Masterson, The back of the TB/Suicide cottage at Ridges Mental Asylum.  They spent a lot of time and money maki
IMG_4046.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4058.JPG by Justin Masterson, The stunning mental patient cemetery adjacent to the Suicide/TB Cottage at Ridges Mental Asylum.  Pa
IMG_4058.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4012.JPG by Justin Masterson, An open window to a bathroom at one corner of the building.  We could have jumped in, but thought be
IMG_4012.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4010.JPG by Justin Masterson, Iron bars to keep people in, and to keep us out.

Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a small nook in th
IMG_4010.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3980.JPG by Justin Masterson, Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a small nook in the exercise yard, where a patient could certainly w
IMG_3980.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3961.JPG by Justin Masterson, Another "door to nowhere" that presumably had a staircase leading from it.

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IMG_3961.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3971.JPG by Justin Masterson, The decorative patterns on the window bars do little to hide the fact that this was a place where yo
IMG_3971.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3988.JPG by Justin Masterson, A basement window that had been boarded up after obviously being pried apart by either a curious exp
IMG_3988.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3969.JPG by Justin Masterson, After stealing into an unmonitored second-floor storage space, we snapped these pics in the abandone
IMG_3969.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4015.JPG by Justin Masterson, Another open window into a bathroom.  Would be easy to go into, but I can't promise it would be easy
IMG_4015.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4019.JPG by Justin Masterson, A door with holes bored through it behind a barred window at the asylum.  We kept trying to figure o
IMG_4019.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3986.JPG by Justin Masterson, Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a small nook in the exercise yard, where a patient could certainly w
IMG_3986.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_4060.JPG by Justin Masterson, A fitting and comforting epitaph on a tombstone at the stunning mental patient cemetery adjacent to
IMG_4060.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3965.JPG by Justin Masterson, Stacy in the yard at the Asylum, where we found an number of very strange and unsettling carvings.
IMG_3965.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3973.JPG by Justin Masterson, Fingerprints on the <i>inside of the glass</i> on a second-story room, viewed from the exercise yard
IMG_3973.JPG by Justin Masterson
IMG_3975.JPG by Justin Masterson, Creeeeeepy writing, carved into a small nook in the exercise yard, where a patient could certainly w
IMG_3975.JPG by Justin Masterson
Athens Insane Asylum by Shirley Tinkham, This is the view of the TB ward if you are standing in the cemetery. building abandoned photoshop gh
Athens Insane Asylum by Shirley Tinkham
Hope Furnace Image 2 3-7-2003 Photo by Bitmapped, ohio usa unitedstates mcarthur zaleski vintoncounty lakehopestatepark
Hope Furnace Image 2 3-7-2003 Photo by Bitmapped
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Athens Mental Health Center (the Ridges) by Shirley Tinkham
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drifting in a canoe by nimrodcooper
DSC_0257b by Alan Studt, Lake Hope State Park - about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio.
Shot with a Canon T4i, EF-S 18-13
DSC_0257b by Alan Studt
DSC_0257c by Alan Studt, Lake Hope State Park - about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio.
Shot with a Canon T4i, EF-S 18-13
DSC_0257c by Alan Studt
DSC_0257f by Alan Studt, Lake Hope State Park - about 60 miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio.
Shot with a Canon T4i, EF-S 18-13
DSC_0257f by Alan Studt
IMG_4111.JPG by Justin Masterson, A tree-lined view of the "clean" side of the Moonville Tunnel, not as damaged by graffiti.
IMG_4111.JPG by Justin Masterson
Treeline by Jared Cherup, trees water pond treeline lakehope lakehopestatepark
Treeline by Jared Cherup
Athens State Hospital Cemetery by joseph a, ohio cemetery asylum ohiouniversity statehospital theridges athensstatehospital athenslunaticasylum
Athens State Hospital Cemetery by joseph a
Nature Preserve Trail at The Ridges by Rico-san, Panorama from my iPhone 3GS, stiched together on-device with AutoStich (iPhone app).

Another shot o
Nature Preserve Trail at The Ridges by Rico-san
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Athens Ohio from the top of Radar Hill on the Ridges in begining of spring by John P Sullivan
DSC_0811b by Alan Studt, Lake Hope State Park - about 50 miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio.
Shot with a Nikon D600, Nikkor AF
DSC_0811b by Alan Studt
Bikepath along the Hocking River by danbruell, This bike path connects Athens with Nelsonville - approx 16 miles.  And it may go beyond Nelsonville
Bikepath along the Hocking River by danbruell
Radar Hill, The Ridges by Rico-san, Panorama shot at the top of Radar Hill, at the Nature Preserve at The Ridges, Athens OH. Taken with
Radar Hill, The Ridges by Rico-san
Nature Preserve Trail 2 at The Ridges by Rico-san, Panorama from my iPhone 3GS, stiched together on-device with AutoStich (iPhone app).

Taken during m
Nature Preserve Trail 2 at The Ridges by Rico-san
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Kentucky Warbler 4-30 by gangulyarchan, April 2011
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White's Mill - Athens OH by danbruell, danbruell
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Athens County OH
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Northern Parula on Redbud 4-24 by gangulyarchan, April, Athens County OH
Taken on a cloudy dark evening, SB-600 used as fill flash.
Dedicated to my g
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IMG_0048 by MikeDariano, I underexposed this image on a walk around the Ohio University Ridges.  landscape athens
IMG_0048 by MikeDariano
The Asylum by MikeDariano, landscape gimp athens asylum ridges
The Asylum by MikeDariano
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A hitchhiker's guide to the library by MyACPL.org
First FNL at Hannah House this year! by RJ Bailey, First FNL at Hannah House this year!fridaynightlife usaohiotheplainsohhannahhouse
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