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The Elk Rut Ramble Trip
A 225-mile bikepacking route through Pennsylvania’s elk country.
At left is Herbert Young, just nineteen and an employee at the Emporium Lumber Company’s Austin mill, who heroically saved his family and the town of Costello by racing there on a bicycle during the 1911 Austin Flood. Photo from local author Gale Largey’s book, The Austin Disaster, 1911, published in 2011.
Elk Rut Ramble Film by Alden Roth
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Explore the Possibilities
Explore the Austin Dam Memorial Park in Austin PA, a vivid reminder of one of Pennsylvania's worst disasters, the Austin Flood in 1911. The ruins of the dam still stand today, surrounded by a 76-acre park, as a tribute to the lives lost in the Austin Flood.
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Open to the public.
Please, stay off the Austin Dam ruins. This is a historical landmark. You are visiting a historic landmark, a place where a great tragedy occurred a century ago. This is a place of historical significance, and we expect that you will respect it as such. Stay away from the Bayless Pulp and Papermill ruins and view only from a safe distance.
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