Chaos -- Swimming Pool at an Abandoned KOA Kampground in Two Guns, Arizona
by Darin Volpe
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Chaos -- Swimming Pool at an Abandoned KOA Kampground in Two Guns, Arizona
Artist
Darin Volpe
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Photograph - Photography
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An empty swimming pool at an abandoned KOA Kampground is decorated in spray paint. It was shot with a fisheye lens near sunset, and I increased the color saturation in post-production.
Near the ghost town of Two Guns, between Flagstaff and Winslow, Arizona, on Interstate 40, this KOA Kampground met the same fate as the nearby ruins. I40 parallels the old Route 66, a road dotted with leftovers of times gone by when two-lane highways crisscrossed the United States. It is one of my favorite places for photography and exploration.
Kampgrounds of America, also known as KOA, is the largest system of private campgrounds in the world. It was founded in 1962 and by 1972 had 600 franchise campgrounds. This KOA closed in the 1980's.
Route 66 is also known as the Mother Road, the Main Street of America, and the Will Rogers Highway. It was one of the original highways built within the U.S. Highway System in 1926. It is one of the most famous roads in the United States, running from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California and passing through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. It was a major path for people migrating west, particularly during the dust bowl of the 1930s. Businesses were prosperous along US66 until the coming of the Interstate Highway System which bypassed the historic route.
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September 27th, 2013
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