digger's gold nugget pancake house restaurant
at one time this was an important route for would-be gold prospectors
and later this became part of the trans-canada highway which connected british columbia's coast
to the interior but the coquihella highway opened in the mid-1980s and travelers began
to bypass this once prosperous town as business began to dwindle many of the once
popular tourist stops began to shut down and were eventually abandoned just like this one
looks pretty gutted in there
there's a map of the town site
to the spirit caves trail the old yale cemetery national monument like that rusted light up there
i wonder if this was an old takeout window here look this would have
had a countertop would have slid right open
this is what caught my attention in the first place this mural welcome to yale it's got all
the different areas uh cities that you can get to from yale hell's gate 21 kilometers
bam 471
vancouver
115 a cool mural of the paddle wheeler
there's an old prospector padding for gold
and right behind this restaurant is the old motel
looks pretty abandoned
i like this guy some happy prospectors back there in the day
cool
looks like at one time there there was balconies or things up there those have all rotted through
rotted siding
i have no idea how long this has been abandoned
some stairs up to the second level
let's take a peek inside the room
looks like it's been pretty destroyed
this would have been one of the old rooms not very big
the lovely green ceramic toilet and sink back there that's classic
another one of the old rooms not going to go too far in look the floor there is rotting out
yeah this has been about in a while
i do like the wood paddling
water tank
this has got a lighter mint toilet that's cabin five
get a view of the window
you can see the headboard of the bed over there
now here you can see up in the ceiling there's a bunch of water damage
that would have been water damaged from the fire which was right next door
so this whole section was destroyed by fire probably somebody living here at one point
burnt caught fire burnt down and they've just left the destruction there
and over there there's the old remaining piece of the motel
hmm
busted out glass
i like the thatched uh cedar plank roof though that's pretty cool
just another look at the rooms oh i'm guessing these all got kicked in when
the fire happened probably had to be cleared and then since then it's just sad abandoned
seal it onto the roof
oh yeah look at that not sure if this would have been another room
maybe a meeting area but look at that all the
floorboards have just rotted right away so i'm not gonna stay up here too long
and that's it
there's an old abandon what was it called the gold nugget motel