Mass Exodus
South Dakota
Multiple dwellings in various stages of neglect and damage, around the outskirts of Scenic, South Dakota. The entire town appears to have been abandoned in a mass exodus. Sadly, like countless other South Dakota communities, residents of the small town continued to move out over the years, leaving for bigger towns and better opportunities in other parts of the state. Today the town sits abandoned and empty, as if it is waiting for nature to completely wipe it off the map, which may just make it the most abandoned town in South Dakota. Photo © copyright by Robert Faucher.