AN EXPLORER has revealed the wonders of an auto graveyard she ran across while in nature admiring a river and mountain landscape.
The blog post she shared featuring some of her photos also included details about her experience finding the Alaska car graveyard and even how the abandoned vehicles ended up there.
The nature explorer titled the blog about the motors graveyard: "Old Car City Alaska Style."
Sheila Newenham referenced Gerogia's Old Car City to note that Alaska has a car graveyard similar.
She even said the southern US state's Old Car City has over 4,000 cars.
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Newenham went as far as to say the nature area that features a popular fishing river at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel buried auto parts is "serendipitous."
"Alaska has the serendipitous surprise of bits and pieces of dilapidated cars peeking out of the ground," she stated.
"That's reclaiming them on a random riverside trail."
The woman said she explored the area because it looked like there'd be moose around but was met with unexpected treasures instead.
"I paralleled the trail, stepping through the trees trying to capture fast-moving warblers, examining bark, and photographing mushrooms," she explained.
"When I saw something poking out of the earth. Almost completely buried, a sliver of a car mimicking a canoe caught my eye."
She said she saw more and more metal pieces of cars peeking out of the ground as she continued to walk the path.
"Thick metal cables loop out of the ground," Newenham described.
"As if tethering the vehicles. Were those cars placed here to create a jetty?"
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To answer her own question, the adventurer said she did some research once she left the auto graveyard and found that the cars weren't a part of any specific project at all.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, Newenham stated that the classic cars she found poking out the ground "were just dumped there."
The woman said the graveyard of vehicles she discovered featured "carcasses of cars in various states of disrepair."
"All fantastically rusted and half-buried," she added.
"Litter the entire north bank of this small peninsula."
The woman explained that The Electric Company bought the area of land after that, in the 1980s.
"And since then, better surveillance," she started.
"And more people around seem to have stopped the dumping."
