Picher - Ghost Town
Picher is today a ghost town. After zinc and lead were mined on a large scale in the 1970s, a large area around the city was contaminated.
The authorities decided in 2007 to resettle the inhabitants of the city.
After the city was hit by a tornado in 2008, no one lives in Picher anymore.
| Name of the Roadside Attraction: | Picher |
| Parking: | in town |
| Time required: | 30 minutes |
| Descripton: | More than a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings. |
| Next town: | Miami, OK |
| Findable: | easy - next to the road |
| Fee area: | no |
| Giftshop: | no |
| Food or drinks: | no |
| Kind of attraction: | Ghost Town (Visit on your own riks) |
| Best time to vistit: | all year |
| Address: | Picher, OK |
| Directions: | While on Route 66 you can take a detour to Picher, not far away from Commerce, OK |
| Opening Hours: | 24/7 |
| Last visited: | October 2013 |
