Since I am still new to Washington and this is my first Summer here I look for FUN things to do in my time off. My friends and I read an article about a town call Lester and that it was abandon, we thought it could be an interesting adventure. Well an adventure is sure what we got! Not only was the town torn down 2 years ago … it was also almost a 3 hour drive to get there! We made the best of the day and had blast just exploring our new state. It was a very pretty place to visit … but not exactly what we were looking for.
That was what we found … a whole bunch of NO TRESPASSING signs and a very nice police man making sure we didn’t go past the lines ….
This was the only thing that actually told us we were in Lester. My friends wondered why we didn’t find the town we were promised. The sad part is the article was written last year …. I’m guessing they didn’t actually go there they just took some photos off the internet.
And this was the only thing that looked like it could have belong to the town… everything else was missing! Here is the link to how we found out about the town. www.onlyinyourstate.com
Note to self … when you Google an old abandon ghost town … click on the FULL Wikipedia link … Because we read this …. “Lester was a small town near Stampede Pass, just south of Snoqualmie Pass in King County, founded in 1892 by the Northern Pacific Railway. Lester is located along what is currently National Forest Development Road 54.” This fun little nugget was not included in the preview … “It was one of the few ghost towns in the U.S. state of Washington. It was destroyed in 2017.” Thanks Wikipedia …
After publishing a photographer friend of mine sent me some photos she took with there last November! Check them out here! flickr.com/photos
