Weldon Spring Site Interpretive Center

Don't miss this.

This is a pretty awesome experience. If you are in the area, please take it in and budget yourself at least 1-2 hours. This is a humbling experience about how bad and how good people can treat the lan...

A brand new center

A brand new center has replaced the old one. An interesting spot with a lot of WWII history. The new center has meeting rooms, class rooms and covers a lot more area. On the other hand, I think the...

Former Superfund Site

Uranium tailing processing. Cost them hundreds of millions to dig up and clean up. They didn't know what to do with the area then, so they made it a park. The adjacent high school, Francis Howell HS, ...

This is a case of "the way it was" and "the way it is"

The Weldon Spring Conservation Area once was one of the most toxic places in the United States. During World War II, the U.S. Government built a munitions plant on the property. Old bunkers used for t...

Toxic Place - great museum

This is really a horrifying example of human abuse of the planet and each other. But the EPA has managed to create a museum showing how bad it was and how great they were in burying the toxicity under...