Drop City Commune

Description:	Drop City was a community that formed in the hills of southern Colorado in the late 1960s, which become a sort of icon of the rural 1960s communal living that seemed to be blooming at that time. Singled out by the media as exemplary, Drop City was known for its dome-style of architecture, which combined the principles and methods of Buckminster Fuller with inexpensive, found materials, such as sheet metal hacked off of junked car roofs. In 1965, when the four original settlers of Drop City, art students and writers from the Universities of Kansas and Colorado, moved to this site, they had no intention of founding a large community, but just wanted to live cheaply and have time to pursue their interests. The community grew, however, spurred by media coverage that included news reports on national television. After becoming what one of the more notorious denizens called "a decompression-chamber for city freaks," and with the people that originally founded the community long since departed, Drop City was slowly vacated. Today, much of the property has been developed, though the last of the iconic domes was taken down only in the late 1990s, by a truck repair facility which now occupies a portion of the site.
Location:	Near Trinidad, 40 miles S of Pueblo (POINT(-104.49119210243 37.220768831485)) (show on map)
Address:	CO
Visitor Info:	On a six acre tract in El Moro, Colorado, 5 miles east of Trinidad off of I-25.
Links:	http://www.clarkrichert.com/dropcity
tag:	Abandoned Site
LCS:	Architectural Landmark, Cultural

Found Here: http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/CO3134/

Drop City was an artists' community that formed in southern Colorado in 1965. Abandoned by the early 1970s, it became known as the first rural "hippie commune".^[1]

Found Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_City