Abandoned In Pittsburgh

After our very long drive to get to Pennsylvania, we decided to spend the least amount of time in the car for our first adventure out! We have a very long list of things we want to see well on the east coast, and in all honesty Pittsburgh was at the bottom of that list for no other reason than we aren’t big city people… but because it only called for a couple hours in the car, we headed there first…. and I’m so glad we did!

Well driving around checking out the city we ended up on a dead end street, it happens all the time, but this time we noticed something pretty cool… a giant old jail? Yes we stumbled upon Pittsburgh’s Western State Penitentiary… with a closer look we realized it was in fact abandoned without a single no trespassing sign and wide open gaits, we decided to do some exploring😳 I’m sure we weren’t supposed to be in there, but in the case we got caught we’d definitely play the tourist card… and let’s face it, as soon as Jim realized it was abandoned I couldn’t keep him out of there if I tried… if you can’t beat them, join them!

I’d liked to have had more time or at least more patience well Jim explored, but with both pups and Ella On my watch, he only had time to explore the three story building/house next to the prison. Well he explored I did a little bit of research and found the Jail was only closed June 30,2017… just last year, after 135 years of being open… the longest running state prison in Pennsylvania… at least that’s what the internet told me.

Inside he found a lot of cool art work that has obviously been on the walls for a very long time…

He was able to walk all the way up to the top of this old place… which surprised me!

He said he thought it may have been the medical area but we still aren’t completely sure. I can’t believe that old historic buildings are just left like this… of corse my crazy mind starts going thinking of all the things this place could be… if we had an endless supply of money of corse lol…

I did try to find some old goat stories on this place, but I don’t thinks it’s been abandoned long enough for stories to start to take off… however I did notice lights on in the main jail, with door that went to no where… which made me wonder a bit… maybe Jim will get the chance to revisit this cool old jail and explore the hallways, if he makes it out, you know you will all be the first to see it!

Here are a few more pictures of Pittsburgh.. I’d have to say I love all the yellow bridges! At times I almost felt like I was in a different country… it’s crazy to me how different this city is compared to other city’s on the west coast like Portland, LA and San Francisco…

Maybe we can get ourselves into the old Heinz building… old factories where Jim’s favorite, but after exploring around the jail, I think his new favorite would have to be abandoned prisons… definitely a whole lot of abandoned and haunted places here in Pennsylvania… I’m sure i between exploring all the history here will will have some more abandoned adventures as well.. until next time 😘